Language Reference

[Lance Bachmeier]

On Tuesday, 20 August 2024 at 04:53:16 UTC, IchorDev wrote:
> On Monday, 19 August 2024 at 06:47:10 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote:
>> On Saturday, 17 August 2024 at 22:17:59 UTC, Pete wrote:
>>> I'm starting to learn the D language and started reading the 
>>> Language Reference.
>>
>> I've never read the reference, but I can tell you that [**The 
>> Book**](https://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html) (over-hyped or 
>> not) gives you a solid grounding. It's the only D 
>> reference/tutorial that's kept more-or-less up-to-date (I say 
>> at the risk of excessive hyphenation). You may or may not find 
>> it slow going, depending on your taste, but at this point, 
>> it's the best we have for getting in there are getting your 
>> feet wet.
>>
>> If you're new to computer science, it covers basics I first 
>> learned back in the mid-1980's, the kind of stuff rarely 
>> mentioned these days that lends one a solid understanding of 
>> these machines we all love to tinker with.
>
> If you like to stay on the bleeding edge then it’s… certainly 
> out of date.
>
> The book also says slices are reference types, which is 
> completely erroneous.

That terminology didn't originate with Ali. You don't like it, 
fine, but he's not wrong based on the usage I've seen here in the 
last decade.