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On Monday, 31 August 2015 at 18:39:22 UTC, wobbles wrote: > On Monday, 31 August 2015 at 16:09:02 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote: >> I've written a new article on D here: >> >> http:// nomad.so/ 2015/08/ more-hidden- treasure-in- the-d- standard- library/ >> >> Hopefully to drive other programmers to investigate D. It's a continuation of a similar one I wrote a few months ago which attracted over 60k readers. It's a simple overview of some cool features in the D standard library hopefully to fuel curiosity. >> >> Reddit link: >> >> https:// www.reddit. com/r/ programming/ comments/ 3j3j87/ more_hidden_ treasure_in_ the_d_ standard_ library/ >> >> Up vote away. :) I've written a new article on D here:Hopefully to drive other programmers to investigate D. It's a continuation of a similar one I wrote a few months ago which attracted over 60k readers. It's a simple overview of some cool features in the D standard library hopefully to fuel curiosity.Reddit link:Up vote away. :) > > Nice article. I regularly find things like this where I spend a couple hours implementing a solution, only to find its already been done for me. Mostly occurs in std.algorithm. > > And it's not even lack of documentation, it's me thinking "this will never be in the library, time to go do it myself". That predSwitch code is a perfect example. On Monday, 31 August 2015 at 16:09:02 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:Nice article. I regularly find things like this where I spend a couple hours implementing a solution, only to find its already been done for me. Mostly occurs in std.algorithm.And it's not even lack of documentation, it's me thinking "this will never be in the library, time to go do it myself". That predSwitch code is a perfect example.