"(This needs elaboration.)" has just turned into a link, the target of which has only one sentence of relevance, which says practically nothing.
OK, so it gives a lower bound for the number of languages that have been called D, but that's certainly nowhere near an adequate elaboration in my mind.
Maybe someone should start D programming language (disambiguation)....
-- Smjg 09:44, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Wouldn't it be slightly better to use a D-specific statement in the example like foreach instead of for ?
The problem is that it won't have exactly the same output as the current example (you can't print the number of the argument unless you add an i variable somewhere and increment it each time, but that doesn't look very clean)
- D allows foreach loops to be indexed, so there's no problem at all. -- Smjg 22:36, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- OK, I don't know D well enough :) and what do you think of my proposition then ? → SeeSchloß 20:44, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Yes, we should put this in. A good code example is one that does things in the way of the language. -- Smjg 09:45, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks, I've replaced the for example with the foreach one. By the way it looks like the new release now has writef() and writefln(), which could give writefln ("args[", i, "] = ", arg); instead of the printf in the example, but I haven't used it yet. → SeeSchloß 21:30, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Example
// D program to print 'hello world' followed by its command line arguments
int main(char[][] args)
{
printf("hello world\n");
foreach (int i, char[] arg; args)
printf("args[%d] = '%.*s'\n", i, arg);
return 0;
}
The article reads like an advertisement for D
I need to learn more before I can rework it, but for starters, "archaic features" is not NPOV. --Ardonik 00:43, Jul 16, 2004 (UTC)
- yes, the article ends up being an advertisement for D instead of an impartial explanation of what it is, it's history and it's capabilities. Maybe it has something to do with D being still under development and some purveyors of that language being quite active in the astroturfing department.
- A complete impartial re-write of this article is needed.