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$(COMMUNITY D Concepts Overview,

$(P Navigate D's implementation of a few key programming language concepts.)

$(ITEMIZE
	$(A spec/garbage.html, Garbage Collection),
	Functions
	$(ITEMIZE
		$(A spec/type.html#delegates, Function Delegates),
		$(A spec/function.html#function-overloading, Function Overloading),
		$(A spec/function.html#parameters, `out` parameters for functions),
		$(A spec/function.html#nested, Nested functions),
		$(A spec/expression.html#FunctionLiteral, Function literals),
		$(A spec/function.html#closures, Closures),
		$(A spec/function.html#variadic, Typesafe variadic arguments),
		$(A lazy-evaluation.html, Lazy function argument evaluation),
		$(A spec/function.html#interpretation, Compile time function evaluation),
		$(A spec/function.html#pseudo-member, Uniform Function Call Syntax),
		$(A spec/attribute.html#UserDefinedAttribute, User Defined Attributes)
	),
	Arrays
	$(ITEMIZE
		$(A spec/arrays.html, Lightweight arrays),
		$(A spec/arrays.html#resize, Resizeable arrays),
		$(A spec/arrays.html#strings, Built-in strings),
		$(A spec/arrays.html#slicing, Array slicing),
		$(A spec/arrays.html#bounds, Array bounds checking),
		$(A spec/expression.html#ArrayLiteral, Array literals),
		$(A spec/arrays.html#associative, Associative arrays),
		$(A spec/statement.html#SwitchStatement, String switches),
		$(A spec/declaration.html#alias, Aliases)
	),
	OOP
	$(ITEMIZE
		Object Orientation,
		Interfaces,
		Single inheritance of implementation/multiple inheritance of interfaces,
		$(A spec/operatoroverloading.html, Operator overloading),
		$(A spec/module.html, Modules),
		No built-in dynamic class loading,
		$(A spec/class.html#nested, Nested classes),
		$(A spec/class.html#nested, Inner (adaptor) classes),
		$(A spec/function.html, Covariant return types),
		$(A spec/property.html#classproperties, Properties)
	),
	Performance
	$(ITEMIZE
		$(A spec/iasm.html, Inline assembler),
		Direct access to hardware,
		$(A spec/struct.html, Lightweight objects),
		$(A https://wiki.dlang.org/Memory_Management, Explicit memory allocation control),
		Independent of VM,
		Direct native code gen
	),
	$(A spec/template.html, Generic Programming)
	$(ITEMIZE
		Class Templates,
		Function Templates,
		Implicit Function Template Instantiation,
		Partial and Explicit Specialization,
		Value Template Parameters,
		Template Template Parameters,
		Variadic Template Parameters,
		$(A concepts.html, Template Constraints),
		$(A spec/template-mixin.html, Mixins),
		$(A spec/version.html#staticif, static if),
		$(A spec/expression.html#IsExpression, expressions),
		$(A spec/declaration.html#Typeof, typeof),
		$(A spec/statement.html#ForeachStatement, foreach),
		$(A spec/declaration.html#AutoDeclaration, Implicit Type Inference)
	),
	Reliability
	$(ITEMIZE
		$(A spec/contracts.html, Contract Programming),
		$(A spec/unittest.html, Unit testing),
		$(A spec/module.html#staticorder, Static construction order),
		$(A spec/statement.html#DeclarationStatement, Guaranteed initialization),
		$(A https://wiki.dlang.org/Memory_Management#RAII_.28Resource_Acquisition_Is_Initialization.29, RAII (automatic destructors)),
		$(A spec/statement.html#TryStatement, Exception handling),
		$(A spec/statement.html#ScopeGuardStatement, Scope guards),
		$(A spec/statement.html#TryStatement, try-catch-finally blocks),
		$(A spec/statement.html#SynchronizedStatement, Thread synchronization primitives)
	),
	Compatibility
	$(ITEMIZE
	C-like syntax,
		$(A spec/enum.html, Enumerated types),
		$(A spec/type.html, Support for all C types),
		$(A spec/type.html, 80 bit floating point),
		$(A phobos/std_complex.html, Complex and Imaginary),
		$(A spec/attribute.html#linkage, Direct access to C),
		Use existing debuggers,
		$(A spec/attribute.html#align, Struct member alignment control),
		Generates standard object files,
		$(A pretod.html, Obviates need for a macro text preprocessor)
	),
	Other
	$(ITEMIZE
		$(A spec/version.html, Conditional compilation),
		$(A spec/lex.html, Unicode source text),
		$(A spec/ddoc.html, Documentation comments)
	)
)

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