On Wednesday, 2 March 2016 at 01:14:15 UTC, tsbockman wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 March 2016 at 17:21:16 UTC, David DeWitt wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 1 March 2016 at 16:50:12 UTC, karabuta wrote:
>>> I am aiming to become a hardcore and better coder(quality code) than you :) Please suggest.
>>
>> I'd probably skim thru the Language Reference and Phobos.
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> Just to add to this - the quality and style of the code in Phobos varies greatly from module to module, mostly as a function of age. Many of the older Phobos modules were designed before anyone really knew how to use D2 properly.
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> The newer modules are generally of high quality and reflect a more mature understanding of the language; I strongly suggest surveying the code base as a whole before studying any one module too closely - otherwise you might pick up some bad habits from the more out-dated parts of Phobos.
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> Also, if you're looking for examples of good, idiomatic code, stay away from DMD (which was only recently converted to D, and still contains many artifacts of its C++ heritage) and D runtime, which hasn't benefited from the same high level of attention and continual reworking as Phobos.

thanks for the tip :)