Language Reference

[IchorDev]

On Wednesday, 21 August 2024 at 06:45:38 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote:
> On Tuesday, 20 August 2024 at 04:53:16 UTC, IchorDev wrote:
>> If you like to stay on the bleeding edge then it’s… certainly 
>> out of date.
> It's the only D reference/tutorial that's kept more-or-less 
> up-to-date.
>
> Prove me wrong by citing something more up-to-date and I'll 
> gladly retract.

A much more up-to-date reference would be… well, the language 
reference??
After skimming a few relevant chapters, it seems that the book 
doesn’t mention [IES](https://dlang.org/spec/istring.html), 
doesn’t mention [named function 
arguments](https://dlang.org/spec/expression.html#argument-list), 
doesn’t mention [shortened function 
declaration](https://dlang.org/spec/function.html#function-bodies), doesn’t mention the more sensible new [`alias this` syntax](https://dlang.org/spec/struct.html#alias-this), and refers to `cent`/`ucent` as ‘reserved for future use’ rather than ‘[deprecated keywords](https://dlang.org/spec/lex.html#keywords)’. And don’t try to weasel out of this by saying that the official D language reference—the only D reference I use on a regular basis—isn’t what you meant by a ‘reference’ after telling me to ‘read carefully’. The word read carefully is presumed written carefully.