On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 22:36:29 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 03/03/2014 09:24 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>
> >> I was hoping to have it finished in time for the D
> conference, but the
> >> publisher
> >> thought that was too soon to be realistic and it is looking
> like they are
> >> right...
> >
> > Dang, we could have set up a table for your book.
>
> He should bring early copies to the conference! Please, please, please... (<-- I've already earned mine. :p )

+1

> Ali

On 3/3/2014 11:37 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last
> few months. It is now available as "coming soon" on the publisher's
> website:
>
> http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book
>

Sounds awesome, congrats!

On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 16:37:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last few months. It is now available as "coming soon" on the publisher's website:
>
> http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book

Congratulations!  Looking forward to getting my hands on it.

On 03/03/2014 11:37 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last
> few months. It is now available as "coming soon" on the publisher's
> website:
>
> http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book
>
>
>
> I was hoping to have it finished in time for the D conference, but the
> publisher thought that was too soon to be realistic and it is looking
> like they are right... right now we believe it will be available in the
> summer.
>


Congratulations!
I will buy it as soon as it's available.

I'm excited to check it out! +1 preorder

On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 18:39:34 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Adam D. Ruppe:
>
>> My goal is to act as a nice complement to Andrei's book, not to repeat it, so while I do cover a lot of language features, I try to do them in the context of bigger picture tasks. So hopefully, the books can go together and reinforce each other.
>
> Congratulations Adam :-)
>
> Now among the printed books about D there's Andrei book, the book about Tango, and your one. Plus there's Ali Çehreli online book, and probably more. Compared to other new languages like Scala there are far less books about D, but the situation is improving :-)
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

I believe there is a Japanese book for ~0.110

http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?DevelopmentWithD#OtherLanguagesnon-English

But the link is dead and I really couldn't/can't confirm that the book was print.

On 3/3/14, 8:37 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last
> few months. It is now available as "coming soon" on the publisher's
> website:
>
> http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book

Announced:

https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/10202073362529100?stream_ref=10

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1zjt9y/d_cookbook_available_for_preordering_from_packt/

I get internal server error from Twitter.


Andrei

On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 18:39:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Announced:

Ah, cool, I almost forgot!


BTW my brain is currently on something that might be of interest: I'm writing a little float to string function. Phobos currently uses sprintf which can't be run at compile time and isn't pure/@safe, so my new D implementation.... if I get it right on all the cases, it is close now tho... might be a nice replacement there.

On 3/4/14, 10:41 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 18:39:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Announced:
>
> Ah, cool, I almost forgot!
>
>
> BTW my brain is currently on something that might be of interest: I'm
> writing a little float to string function. Phobos currently uses sprintf
> which can't be run at compile time and isn't pure/@safe, so my new D
> implementation.... if I get it right on all the cases, it is close now
> tho... might be a nice replacement there.

It's a much harder problem than one might anticipate.

http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2011/06/29/here-be-dragons-advances-in-problems-you-didnt-even-know-you-had/

(article by my manager!)


Andrei

On 3/4/14, 10:57 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 3/4/14, 10:41 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 18:39:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Announced:
>>
>> Ah, cool, I almost forgot!
>>
>>
>> BTW my brain is currently on something that might be of interest: I'm
>> writing a little float to string function. Phobos currently uses sprintf
>> which can't be run at compile time and isn't pure/@safe, so my new D
>> implementation.... if I get it right on all the cases, it is close now
>> tho... might be a nice replacement there.
>
> It's a much harder problem than one might anticipate.
>
> http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2011/06/29/here-be-dragons-advances-in-problems-you-didnt-even-know-you-had/
>
>
> (article by my manager!)
>
>
> Andrei

That said I really wish we had CTFE-able parsing and formatting for FP numbers. The opportunities for function tabulation, interpolation etc. are fantastic.

Andrei