• mumba <qniol o2.pl> Oct 06 2008
• bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> Oct 06 2008
• mumba <qniol o2.pl> Oct 07 2008
• "Jarrett Billingsley" <jarrett.billingsley gmail.com> Oct 07 2008
• BCS <ao pathlink.com> Oct 06 2008

mumba <qniol o2.pl> writes:

Where I can find the full specification of the D programming language? For
version 1.0 at least. I really need it.

To show what I mean - something similar to these documents: 
http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n1256.pdf
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/docs/books/jls/download/langspec-3.0.pdf
In both form and content. 

Does it exist?

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

mumba:
 Where I can find the full specification of the D programming language? For
version 1.0 at least. I really need it.
 ...
 In both form and content.


You can't. D isn't such widely used, so stable, and so formalized yet, and it
will probably take years to reach that stage (if ever it will reach it. There
are languages like Python that are used by millions of people, that are 15
years old, and don't have that level of specification "yet").

In the meantime you can see the D1 docs here:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/index.html

Bye,
bearophile

mumba <qniol o2.pl> writes:

bearophile Wrote:

 You can't. D isn't such widely used, so stable, and so formalized yet, and it
will probably take years to reach that stage (if ever it will reach it. There
are languages like Python that are used by millions of people, that are 15
years old, and don't have that level of specification "yet").
 
 In the meantime you can see the D1 docs here:
 http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/index.html


However - Walter had to write the compiler somehow, so I guess this level of
formality is already present implicitly in the dmd's source code. I'm just
looking for a more convinent form.

"Jarrett Billingsley" <jarrett.billingsley gmail.com> writes:

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:28 AM, mumba <qniol o2.pl> wrote:
 bearophile Wrote:

 You can't. D isn't such widely used, so stable, and so formalized yet, and it
will probably take years to reach that stage (if ever it will reach it. There
are languages like Python that are used by millions of people, that are 15
years old, and don't have that level of specification "yet").

 In the meantime you can see the D1 docs here:
 http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/index.html


 However - Walter had to write the compiler somehow, so I guess this level of
formality is already present implicitly in the dmd's source code. I'm just
looking for a more convinent form.


No.. not really.  I mean, look at the DMD frontend.  Not a lot of
formality there.  ;)

BCS <ao pathlink.com> writes:

Reply to mumba,

 Where I can find the full specification of the D programming language?
 For version 1.0 at least. I really need it.
 
 To show what I mean - something similar to these documents:
 http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n1256.pdf
 http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/docs/books/jls/download/langspec-3.
 0.pdf In both form and content.
 
 Does it exist?
 


the best docs are in the dmd.zip file under html/