Now that I'm done reading the D Programming Language book, I'm wondering what's the quickest way to become acquainted with Phobos?

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On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 01:55:08AM +0200, David Piepgrass wrote:
> Now that I'm done reading the D Programming Language book, I'm wondering what's the quickest way to become acquainted with Phobos?
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http://dlang.org/phobos/index.html


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On Thursday, 5 July 2012 at 23:55:09 UTC, David Piepgrass wrote:
> Now that I'm done reading the D Programming Language book, I'm wondering what's the quickest way to become acquainted with Phobos?
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On Friday, July 06, 2012 01:55:08 David Piepgrass wrote:
> Now that I'm done reading the D Programming Language book, I'm wondering what's the quickest way to become acquainted with Phobos?

Reading the documentation is pretty much it.

http://dlang.org/phobos/index.html

I'm not aware of a lot of tutorials or anything like that. The big concept that you'll have to get a proper understanding for is ranges, since Phobos uses them heavily. The best article/tutorial on those right now is probably this:

http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/ranges.html

There are some articles on the main website which will help you out as well (they're listed on the left):

http://dlang.org/d-floating-point.html

But there's not really anything designed to introduce you to the standard library or anything like that. The closest to that would be the article on std.datetime ( http://dlang.org/intro-to-datetime.html ), but it's just talking about the one module, not the library as a whole.

You can also look at the source code if you want to, but I don't know how helpful that would be (it comes with the compiler, or you can look at the latest here: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos ).

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