On 07/03/2016 01:31 AM, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 7/3/2016 12:21 AM, Charles Hixson via Digitalmars-d wrote:
I do wish that phobos included a D wrapper around SQLite,
There was one recently announced.
Thanks. I missed the announcement.
I'd also like to be able to depend on class finalizers being called.
Sometimes I wrap a class in a struct just so I can depend on the
finalizer.
That's the way to do it.
It works, but it's a bit of added friction when I'm coding. Especially
if I need access to the internals of the class...then I need to manually
mangle the names. (I'm not implying I need to match the compiler's
version of the name.)
The last time I checked DDoc stopped working after encountering an
extern "C"
block in a file.
I'm not aware of this. Is there a bug report filed?
I wasn't sure it was a bug. And it may not still be present. Since I
figured out the cause I've just put the C externals in a separate file.
DDoc could use considerable work in formatting. I'd like to be able
to globally control the font attributes
of classes, structs, aliases, enums.
DDoc relies on having a user-supplied xxx.ddoc file to provide the
formatting, css, etc.
I wasn't able to figure out how to highlight classes differently from
structs, etc. I have built small .ddoc files to make custom changes,
but that was for defining macros.
I'd like to be able to document private
routines or not depending on a (compiler) switch.
I'm not sure what the point of that would be. Private functions
shouldn't be called by anything outside of the file, and you already
have the file open in the editor when working on it. But you can
always submit an enhancement request for it on bugzilla.
That's not for export. The documentation is written for me to use a
month or more later.
Most of my needs are for run time flexibility rather than for more
compile time
flexibility. E.g., I'd like to be able to declare a statically sized
array from
a parameter.
You can do it more or less with alloca(). I know C99 has this feature,
and some people swear by it, but I just don't think it pulls its weight.
Yes, I could manually allocate them. But that adds a lot of
resistance. If they are too much effort, well, OK, but that's an
example of the kind of thing that I want that D doesn't address. No
language does everything, and D is one of the two or three languages I
consider best. Python is another, but slow. Vala shows promise, but
it's not portable, and the development is glacial. Also it's poorly
documented. It's advantage is it's fast AND has a lot of wrapped
libraries. (But last I checked it seemed FAR from 1.0.)
I feel sort of guilty for "complaining" this way when I've been
devoting all my
efforts to my own projects, but you did, essentially, invite comments.
If something good can come from it, it's good.
My chances of getting any usable result from my work are *very* low.
OTOH, if I do the social payoff will be huge. So I persevere. Except
when I get discouraged.
