D Language Website Documentation

The D language ecosystem provides several platforms for discussion, documentation, and issue tracking:

• Bug Tracker: Use the Bugzilla bug tracker archive for reporting and tracking issues.
• Forum: Participate in community discussions via the D Forum.
• Wiki: Access additional community-driven documentation on the D Wiki.

To document new features or changes for the D language, add entries to the pending changelog. These entries are automatically copied to dlang.org and cleared when the master branch is merged into stable before a new release.

Entry Format

Entries should follow a structure similar to this:

1. A title (e.g., My fancy new feature X). Note: The title must not contain links, as the title itself is rendered as a link.
2. A long description of the feature.
3. Code snippets (e.g., D code using assert) to demonstrate the change.

My fancy new feature X

A long description of the new feature.
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import std.range;
import std.algorithm.comparison;

assert([1, 2, 3, 4, 5].padLeft(0, 7).equal([0, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]));

assert("Hello World!".padRight('!', 15).equal("Hello World!!!!"));
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If you have cloned both the tools and dlang.org repositories locally, you can preview how the pending changelog will look by running the following command from the language-changelog directory:

make -C ../dlang.org -f posix.mak pending_changelog

To build the English version of the book, use the rdmd tool. The generated files will be output to the web/book directory.

rdmd build.d

The code samples used throughout the book "Programming in D" (available at http://ddili.org/) are stored in this directory. Each sample is a standalone .d file named using a specific convention to map it back to its original chapter and sequence.

Naming Convention: chapterName.N.d

• chapterName: The name of the chapter file (without the .html extension). For example, hello_world corresponds to hello_world.html.
• N: The sequential order of the program within that chapter.

Example: hello_world.1.d is the first code sample extracted from the hello_world.html chapter file.

Note on Translations: In some cases, chapter names containing the Turkish word cozum (meaning "solution") have been translated to solution in the file names. For example, unit_testing.solution.2.d is the second program extracted from unit_testing.cozum.html.