Please forgive me if I've missed something, but I have been looking over D's website for hours now, and all I can find are summaries of features and discussions of differences between D and C/C++. Where can I find the documentation that gives details of D's features? I cannot find any solid language specification or documentation.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Phil

On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:35:17 -0500, Phil Deets wrote:

> Please forgive me if I've missed something, but I have been looking over D's website for hours now, and all I can find are summaries of features and discussions of differences between D and C/C++. Where can I find the documentation that gives details of D's features? I cannot find any solid language specification or documentation.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Phil

Erm, theres quite detailed documentation on the site..
Start here:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/lex.html and use the side panel to navigate.

There's also the phobos documentation here: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/phobos/phobos.html

Hope that's what you want.

Phil Deets wrote:

> Please forgive me if I've missed something, but I have been looking over D's website for hours now, and all I can find are summaries of features and discussions of differences between D and C/C++. Where can I find the documentation that gives details of D's features? I cannot find any solid language specification or documentation.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Phil

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/comparison.html used to contain exactly what you're looking for, but the columns for other languages were removed.  To this day, I don't know why...

Jason House wrote:
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/comparison.html used to contain exactly what
> you're looking for, but the columns for other languages were removed.  To
> this day, I don't know why...

I think because Walter was bombarded with emails from other languages
advocates about how untrue and unfair and unwhatever that list was.

regards, frank

Jarrod Wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:35:17 -0500, Phil Deets wrote:
> 
> > Please forgive me if I've missed something, but I have been looking over D's website for hours now, and all I can find are summaries of features and discussions of differences between D and C/C++. Where can I find the documentation that gives details of D's features? I cannot find any solid language specification or documentation.
> > 
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Phil
> 
> Erm, theres quite detailed documentation on the site..
> Start here:
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/lex.html and use the side panel to navigate.
> 
> There's also the phobos documentation here: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/phobos/phobos.html
> 
> Hope that's what you want.

Thank you. This is what I was looking for. I guess I never thought to click "Language..." to see documentation. I would suggest the website developer change this to "Language documentation" or "Documentation" or "Reference Manual" or something like that. I did spend a lot of time looking for this, but never found it because of the link name.

Thanks,
Phil

0ffh wrote:
> Jason House wrote:
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/comparison.html used to contain exactly what you're looking for, but the columns for other languages were removed.  To this day, I don't know why...
> 
> I think because Walter was bombarded with emails from other languages advocates about how untrue and unfair and unwhatever that list was.

Or that potential users felt that D must be too weak to stand on its own merits if it had to resort to misleading (if not strictly incorrect) representations of its competition.  In any case, the comparison chart generated a lot of heat and little light, and I agree with Walter that ultimately we're better off without it.

-- James

On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:53:38 -0500, Jason House <jason.james.house@gmail.com> wrote:

>Phil Deets wrote:
>
>> Please forgive me if I've missed something, but I have been looking over D's website for hours now, and all I can find are summaries of features and discussions of differences between D and C/C++. Where can I find the documentation that gives details of D's features? I cannot find any solid language specification or documentation.
>> 
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Phil
>
>http://www.digitalmars.com/d/comparison.html used to contain exactly what you're looking for, but the columns for other languages were removed.  To this day, I don't know why...

This link has a full comparison. http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguagesVersusD