• J Anderson <REMOVEanderson badmama.com.au> May 11 2004
• Norbert Nemec <Norbert.Nemec gmx.de> May 12 2004
• J Anderson <REMOVEanderson badmama.com.au> May 12 2004
• Ben Hinkle <bhinkle4 juno.com> May 12 2004

J Anderson <REMOVEanderson badmama.com.au> writes:

I created a short frequent answers list:

http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?ShortFrequentAnswers

It's basicly a list of common answers in a very short form, the 
accelerated learning of D.

Can you think of any other short common answers that would be useful.

-- 
-Anderson: http://badmama.com.au/~anderson/

Norbert Nemec <Norbert.Nemec gmx.de> writes:

J Anderson wrote:

 I created a short frequent answers list:
 
 http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?ShortFrequentAnswers
 
 It's basicly a list of common answers in a very short form, the
 accelerated learning of D.
 
 Can you think of any other short common answers that would be useful.


Good idea!

Anyhow:
"Arrays (strings) are a length followed by the elements."

This sounds more like Pascal-strings than like D-strings. If you want to
avoid going into details (which, of course, is reasonable at that point) it
should be enough to say

"Strings are not null-terminated, but hold explicit length information.
Therefore..."

J Anderson <REMOVEanderson badmama.com.au> writes:

Norbert Nemec wrote:

J Anderson wrote:

  

I created a short frequent answers list:

http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?ShortFrequentAnswers

It's basicly a list of common answers in a very short form, the
accelerated learning of D.

Can you think of any other short common answers that would be useful.
    


Good idea!

Anyhow:
"Arrays (strings) are a length followed by the elements."

This sounds more like Pascal-strings than like D-strings. If you want to
avoid going into details (which, of course, is reasonable at that point) it
should be enough to say

"Strings are not null-terminated, but hold explicit length information.
Therefore..."
  



It's a wiki so you can make change like this yourself (well that's the 
idea).

-- 
-Anderson: http://badmama.com.au/~anderson/

Ben Hinkle <bhinkle4 juno.com> writes:

Norbert Nemec wrote:

 J Anderson wrote:
 
 I created a short frequent answers list:
 
 http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?ShortFrequentAnswers
 
 It's basicly a list of common answers in a very short form, the
 accelerated learning of D.
 
 Can you think of any other short common answers that would be useful.


 Good idea!
 
 Anyhow:
 "Arrays (strings) are a length followed by the elements."
 
 This sounds more like Pascal-strings than like D-strings. If you want to
 avoid going into details (which, of course, is reasonable at that point)
 it should be enough to say
 
 "Strings are not null-terminated, but hold explicit length information.
 Therefore..."


Or it can say what the D spec says:
"Dynamic arrays contain a length and a garbage collected pointer to the
array data. "