Few things I have collected in the last days. Can RAND_MAX be added to std.c.stdlib of D1 too?
----------------------- What is the advantage of having a separate /+ +/ nestable comment syntax? Can't the /+ +/ be removed to make the normal /* */ syntax nestable? (IS the different C semantics of /* */ a problem here? I don't think so.) ----------------------- Using obj2asm to the .obj produced by D2 (v2.029) produced huge (like 100-600 KB!) asm files even for 10-lines long programs (The same asm files where very small for D1). There's a very large amount of asm code inside there. ----------------------- >From the Python newsgroup: >Linden Lab, makers of Second LIfe virtual world, found it was good to create a >C++ class similar to a Python dictionary in order to leverage some of the >faster prototyping advantages of that Python type when converting to C++.< >LLSD is a proposed IETF standard so there's no licensing issues involved in >using the technique, and I believe there are implementations in C++ (GPL) and >C#(BSD) and possible other languages as well.< >Linden Lab Structured Data (LLSD) is an abstract type system intended to >provide a language-neutral facility for the representation of structured data. > It provides a type system, a serialization system and an interface >description language.< http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LLSD http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-hamrick-llsd-00.txt ----------------------- The std.intrinsic module may gain a standard way to perform a 64-bit by 32-bit division, for the situations where you know the quotient will fit in 32 bits ('divl' instruction on X86). CPUs that don't support such operation can use the normal 64-big division. ----------------------- I don't like the way Ruby denotes intervals open/closed on the right. The following is how you do it in the Groovy language (but I don't like it, because I like intervals by default open on the right): Loop on closed on the right range: for (i in 0..n) Loop on open on the right range: for (i in 0..<n) Two possible syntaxes for D, to represent intervals closed on the right, using ..# or ..> for (i; 0 ..# n) for (i; 0 ..> n) I like the syntax with # better. But probably adding a +1 at the end is good enough too for D. Better keep things simpler. Later, bearophile
