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.

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

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..."

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..."
>  
>
Thanks.

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

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

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. "