I've started a list of curated D tips and tricks here: http://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/

Anything that you wished you learned earlier at one point in the D world is welcome to be added or suggested.

I think the focus should be on "stuff that could make you more productive, or is just funky" but that is up to debate.

Of course the D Cookbook still stays irreplaceable for a consistent, in-depth discussion of being D-enabled.

Thoughts?

On Thursday, 8 January 2015 at 10:21:26 UTC, ponce wrote:
> I've started a list of curated D tips and tricks here: http://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/
>
> Anything that you wished you learned earlier at one point in the D world is welcome to be added or suggested.
>
> I think the focus should be on "stuff that could make you more productive, or is just funky" but that is up to debate.
>
> Of course the D Cookbook still stays irreplaceable for a consistent, in-depth discussion of being D-enabled.
>
> Thoughts?

This is great, thanks.

Something I personally would find useful is a comparison between the C++ way and idiomatic D with Phobos. I finding coming from C/C++ to D very easy but I'm always wondering if I'm doing things the "D" way.

Cheers,
uri

On Thursday, 8 January 2015 at 10:30:38 UTC, uri wrote:
>
> This is great, thanks.
>
> Something I personally would find useful is a comparison between the C++ way and idiomatic D with Phobos. I finding coming from C/C++ to D very easy but I'm always wondering if I'm doing things the "D" way.
>
> Cheers,
> uri

I'm not familiar with the terse, range-heavy, UFCS style that has emerged from Phobos so I'm not sure if I can write that.

What could help is a list of tasks for which you asked yourself what the "D" way was. Is there one?

On Thursday, 8 January 2015 at 10:35:07 UTC, ponce wrote:
> On Thursday, 8 January 2015 at 10:30:38 UTC, uri wrote:
>>
>> This is great, thanks.
>>
>> Something I personally would find useful is a comparison between the C++ way and idiomatic D with Phobos. I finding coming from C/C++ to D very easy but I'm always wondering if I'm doing things the "D" way.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> uri
>
> I'm not familiar with the terse, range-heavy, UFCS style that has emerged from Phobos so I'm not sure if I can write that.
>
> What could help is a list of tasks for which you asked yourself what the "D" way was. Is there one?

No I admit I don't have any real list. It's always an "in the moment" sort of thing and I then just choose a D-ish/C++ style and promptly forget the exact details.

I'll start to compile a list each time this comes up. And if I find any good D idioms in the process I'll include them in the list as well.

Thanks,
uri

ponce:

> I'm not familiar with the terse, range-heavy, UFCS style that has emerged from Phobos

In Rosettacode I have inserted tons of examples of that coding style.

An example, given a tuple of arbitrary length, with items all of the same type, how do you compute the total of its items?

The last way I've invented is:

myTuple[].only.sum

It's also @nogc. But it causes a little of template bloat.

Bye,
bearophile

On Thursday, 8 January 2015 at 10:21:26 UTC, ponce wrote:
> I've started a list of curated D tips and tricks here: http://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/
>
> Anything that you wished you learned earlier at one point in the D world is welcome to be added or suggested.
>
> I think the focus should be on "stuff that could make you more productive, or is just funky" but that is up to debate.
>
> Of course the D Cookbook still stays irreplaceable for a consistent, in-depth discussion of being D-enabled.
>
> Thoughts?

They are really cool, thanks :)

Question:

Where did this syntax came from? It is not documented for 'import' keyword.(first time I see that D has built-in resource compiler):

ubyte[] sdlBytes = cast(ubyte[]) import("SDL2.dll");

On Thu, 08 Jan 2015 11:24:34 +0000
Szymon Gatner via Digitalmars-d-announce
<digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, 8 January 2015 at 10:21:26 UTC, ponce wrote:
> > I've started a list of curated D tips and tricks here: http://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/
> >
> > Anything that you wished you learned earlier at one point in the D world is welcome to be added or suggested.
> >
> > I think the focus should be on "stuff that could make you more productive, or is just funky" but that is up to debate.
> >
> > Of course the D Cookbook still stays irreplaceable for a consistent, in-depth discussion of being D-enabled.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> 
> They are really cool, thanks :)
> 
> Question:
> 
> Where did this syntax came from? It is not documented for 'import' keyword.(first time I see that D has built-in resource compiler):
> 
> ubyte[] sdlBytes = cast(ubyte[]) import("SDL2.dll");
it is documented: http://dlang.org/expression.html#ImportExpression it's a nice D habit of overloading keywords.

On Thursday, 8 January 2015 at 10:56:00 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> ponce:
>
>> I'm not familiar with the terse, range-heavy, UFCS style that has emerged from Phobos
>
> In Rosettacode I have inserted tons of examples of that coding style.
>
> An example, given a tuple of arbitrary length, with items all of the same type, how do you compute the total of its items?
>
> The last way I've invented is:
>
> myTuple[].only.sum
>
> It's also @nogc. But it causes a little of template bloat.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

Cool. I will link to the Rosettacode D pages since I've used them in the past when time-constrained, especially all things regarding text files.

On Thursday, 8 January 2015 at 11:31:14 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Jan 2015 11:24:34 +0000
> Szymon Gatner via Digitalmars-d-announce
> <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, 8 January 2015 at 10:21:26 UTC, ponce wrote:
>> > I've started a list of curated D tips and tricks here: http://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/
>> >
>> > Anything that you wished you learned earlier at one point in the D world is welcome to be added or suggested.
>> >
>> > I think the focus should be on "stuff that could make you more productive, or is just funky" but that is up to debate.
>> >
>> > Of course the D Cookbook still stays irreplaceable for a consistent, in-depth discussion of being D-enabled.
>> >
>> > Thoughts?
>> 
>> They are really cool, thanks :)
>> 
>> Question:
>> 
>> Where did this syntax came from? It is not documented for 'import' keyword.(first time I see that D has built-in resource compiler):
>> 
>> ubyte[] sdlBytes = cast(ubyte[]) import("SDL2.dll");
> it is documented: http://dlang.org/expression.html#ImportExpression
> it's a nice D habit of overloading keywords.

Ah, thanks. Follow up then: can such imported string be used for mixin?

On Thursday, 8 January 2015 at 11:41:43 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:
>>> 
>>> Question:
>>> 
>>> Where did this syntax came from? It is not documented for 'import' keyword.(first time I see that D has built-in resource compiler):
>>> 
>>> ubyte[] sdlBytes = cast(ubyte[]) import("SDL2.dll");
>> it is documented: http://dlang.org/expression.html#ImportExpression
>> it's a nice D habit of overloading keywords.
>
> Ah, thanks. Follow up then: can such imported string be used for mixin?

Yes.