Tutorials

Best Practices

• Order of import statements
• Portability and performance
• Conventional module name for importing all modules in a package

Common Idioms

Although D inherited much of its syntax from C and C++, the new features that it introduces lead to some common idioms that are unique to D.

• Initializing variables
• Declaring constants
• Looping over integers
• Unittest placement
  • Imports and helper functions only present when compiling with -unittest
• Commenting out code
• Declaring dense multidimensional arrays
• Voldemort types

How To

• Compile and link with DMD on Windows
• Function literals
• printf
• Regular expressions
• Runtime type information (RTTI)
• Implicitly convert a user-defined type to a builtin type
• Convert header files with SED
• Output locale character (MBS) to console
• Run D in a CGI (web) environment
• Promote D Projects
• Tame OPTLINK
• Run unit tests
• Define custom print format specifiers