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D Template Tutorial

What's it's about

This project is about a wonderful part of the D programming language: templates. It contains a (not-so) small LaTeX document on templates aiming to be a kind of tutorial.

  • The master document is dtemplates.tex and calls the other subfiles:
  • dtemplates_basics.tex is about templates syntax, basic building blocks (static if, eponymous trick) and function, struct and class templates.
  • dtemplates_advanced.tex is about more advanced ideas, like constraints, tuples and other metaprogramming constructs interacting with templates: traits, compile-time function evaluation (CTFE) and string mixins.
  • dtemplates_examples.tex presents some more detailed examples of what can be bone with D templates.
  • dtemplates_appendix.tex gives some explanation on the is expression.

I'll push the resulting pdf file on this repo, but it'd be best to generate it anew on your computer.

LaTeX notes

The document uses the minted package. minted uses Python's Pygment highlighter. D code blocks are between \begin{dcode} and \end{dcode} commands. Transform them into verbatim commands if you do not want to use minted.

TODO

  • Finish the examples part
  • write some D code to automatically extract and compile the examples code.
  • find a way to convert to .ddoc format (maybe another project: some Markdown <-> LaTex <-> DDoc converter), to use D's own syntax highlighter.