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Issue 7370 - Major errors in the FAQ
Summary: Major errors in the FAQ
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: D
Classification: Unclassified
Component: dlang.org (show other issues)
Version: D2
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
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Reported: 2012-01-25 21:25 UTC by Don
Modified: 2015-06-09 05:11 UTC (History)
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Description Don 2012-01-25 21:25:50 UTC
The whole FAQ is very outdated. A couple of the problems are major:

1. "Why emphasize implementation ease?"
---> This is highly embarassing wrt to the number of bugs in Bugzilla. It needs to be removed. D does not emphasize implementation ease. Not any more.

2. The final point, "why can't the compiler infer purity?" should mention that the compiler does infer purity in many cases now!

3. "Can't garbage collection be done in C++ with an add-on library?"
--> this doesn't belong in the D spec.

4. "Doesn't C++ support strings, etc. with STL?"
--> parts of this belong on the Rationale page. The rest should be removed.
Comment 1 github-bugzilla 2012-02-05 00:41:40 UTC
Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/d-programming-language.org

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/d-programming-language.org/commit/67e5f0d8b59aa0ce26b2be9bd79c93d1127b2db6
Merge pull request #70 from donc/faq7370

Bug  7370 : FAQ errors about purity, implementation ease, and open source
Comment 2 Yao Gomez 2012-02-06 20:37:02 UTC
Don fixed all the problems reported in this issue, should this be closed? Or there's going to be more fixes to the FAQ here?