"Bekenn" wrote in message
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> On 3/24/2011 3:59 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> Since MS no longer offers legitimate copies of XP
>
> Windows 7 Professional (and above) comes with a full license for XP in a
> virtual machine. That's how I got my results abov
On 3/24/2011 3:59 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Since MS no longer offers legitimate copies of XP
Windows 7 Professional (and above) comes with a full license for XP in a
virtual machine. That's how I got my results above.
Reference: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/default.aspx
Jonathan M Davis Wrote:
> I wouldn't think that the GPL would be a problem for build tools. It (and
> LGPL) _is_ a problem for libraries, but you're not linking with tools or
> generally doing anything with their code. You're just using them.
Well, if Digital Mars doesn't plan to redistribute t
Steven Schveighoffer Wrote:
> OEM copies are not transferrable, but those will only work on the vendor's
> BIOS key anyways. So they are "technically" transferrable to another
> system with the same vendor, but I don't think the license officially
> permits it.
I think, OEM copy can be tra
On 3/24/2011 12:55 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
I wouldn't mind it becoming a contextual keyword (like C#'s get and set
inside properties).
This is exactly what it should be.
On 3/24/2011 12:55 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
But I don't know that it's so terrible to have it as a keyword. Clearly
there was a "free keyword love" period in D's past, but I think it takes
a lot more than just "we could technically do this without a keyword" to
remove it from the language.
On 3/24/11 9:48 PM, Adrian Mercieca wrote:
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:15:14 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
There's some odd review of TDPL on amazon.com that claims that (a) gdc
only supports D1 and (b) dmd is "too expensive for students". Sigh.
I'd appreciate it if you guys commented in respon
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:46:39 -0400, David Nadlinger
wrote:
Hi all,
I am putting together a Google Summer of Code project proposal regarding
the Apache Thrift idea (see the ideas page[1]), which I intend to
officially submit as soon as the application period opens. You can find
my first
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:15:14 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> There's some odd review of TDPL on amazon.com that claims that (a) gdc
> only supports D1 and (b) dmd is "too expensive for students". Sigh.
>
> I'd appreciate it if you guys commented in response to that post (as
> David Simcha did
On 3/24/2011 10:21 PM, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
Indeed this pattern solves the problem to wait for the completion of a
specific task. It also avoids a huge potential of deadlocks that a
general yield() that does not take a task would have. However, it will
not solve the general problem of one task wai
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:33:28 -0400, Bruno Medeiros
> wrote:
>
>> Well, now we go back to discussion of the discussion of whether one thinks
>> it's worthwhile to use and IDE or not (for general development, not just
>> code reviews).
On 3/24/2011 10:31 PM, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
Well what can I say.. things can become more complex and you cannot
always say this is parallelism and this is concurrency ore something.
It's just nice when the libary does not get in the way when you are in a
situation where eg. throughput and responsi
Am 25.03.2011 02:51, schrieb dsimcha:
On 3/24/2011 9:15 PM, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
Am 24.03.2011 13:03, schrieb Michel Fortin:
On 2011-03-24 03:00:01 -0400, Sönke Ludwig
said:
Am 24.03.2011 05:32, schrieb dsimcha:
In addition to improving the documentation, I added
Task.executeInNewThread() to
Am 25.03.2011 02:17, schrieb dsimcha:
On 3/24/2011 9:05 PM, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
This may not be an issue in the std.parallelism design. A TaskPool task
can safely wait on other tasks. What prevents this from causing a
deadlock is that calling yieldForce, spinForce, or waitForce on a task
that ha
Am 25.03.2011, 00:52 Uhr, schrieb Iain Buclaw :
== Quote from Trass3r (u...@known.com)'s article
I don't want to edit the ideas wiki page without getting another
opinion,
so what about:
- helping with getting dmd produce x64 code on Windows.
To quote Walter:
"To do 64 bits on Windows requires:
On 3/24/11 4:02 AM, Bekenn wrote:
Interestingly, you don't even have to remove "body" from the syntax to
remove it as a keyword, as it's only used in this context (that I know
of), where no other symbols make sense.
And oh so many keywords could be removed from the language if the
compiler is
On 3/24/2011 9:15 PM, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
Am 24.03.2011 13:03, schrieb Michel Fortin:
On 2011-03-24 03:00:01 -0400, Sönke Ludwig
said:
Am 24.03.2011 05:32, schrieb dsimcha:
In addition to improving the documentation, I added
Task.executeInNewThread() to allow Task to be useful without a
Task
Am 24.03.2011 13:03, schrieb Michel Fortin:
On 2011-03-24 03:00:01 -0400, Sönke Ludwig
said:
Am 24.03.2011 05:32, schrieb dsimcha:
In addition to improving the documentation, I added
Task.executeInNewThread() to allow Task to be useful without a TaskPool.
(Should this have a less verbose name
On 3/24/2011 9:05 PM, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
This may not be an issue in the std.parallelism design. A TaskPool task
can safely wait on other tasks. What prevents this from causing a
deadlock is that calling yieldForce, spinForce, or waitForce on a task
that has not started executing yet will execut
Am 24.03.2011 14:25, schrieb dsimcha:
On 3/24/2011 3:00 AM, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
Am 24.03.2011 05:32, schrieb dsimcha:
In addition to improving the documentation, I added
Task.executeInNewThread() to allow Task to be useful without a TaskPool.
(Should this have a less verbose name?)
The thread
On 3/24/2011 1:34 PM, spir wrote:
On 03/24/2011 05:32 PM, bearophile wrote:
I tried to keep it as consistent as possible with std.algorithm.
OK. Then the question is why std.algorithm uses normal strings instead
of q{} ones.
And regarding consistency with std.algorithm, a more important factor
On 25/03/11 06:09, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:17:03 -0400, Graham St Jack
wrote:
Regarding unit tests - I have never been a fan of putting unit test
code into the modules being tested because:
* Doing so introduces stacks of unnecessary imports, and bloats the
module.
Hi all,
I am putting together a Google Summer of Code project proposal regarding
the Apache Thrift idea (see the ideas page[1]), which I intend to
officially submit as soon as the application period opens. You can find
my first draft at http://klickverbot.at/code/gsoc/thrift/.
While I would
== Quote from Trass3r (u...@known.com)'s article
> I don't want to edit the ideas wiki page without getting another opinion,
> so what about:
> - helping with getting dmd produce x64 code on Windows.
> To quote Walter:
> "To do 64 bits on Windows requires:
> 1. 64 bit OMF
> 2. 64 bit librarian
> 3.
On 3/24/2011 7:26 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On 2011-03-24 15:04:45, David Nadlinger wrote:
On 3/24/11 10:31 PM, Kagamin wrote:
The first step would be to examine if MinGW's tools could be used.
No way. They're GPL.
So?
I wouldn't think that the GPL would be a problem for build tools. It
On 2011-03-24 16:23:40, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 3/24/11, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > Now, string is pretty bad on the whole, but then again, there are plenty
> > of cases where you just don't care about what a string is for.
>
> You don't care now, but you'll care later when its time to fix a
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:59:16 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote in message
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On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:02:05 -0400, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
Given that the other posts list XP with having 23:00 on the day before
rather
than at 00:0
"dsimcha" wrote in message
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> On 3/24/2011 6:59 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> Windows licenses are non-transferable
>
> Apparently Microsoft has never heard of the First-Sale Doctrine.
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Sale_Doctrine) WTF
That's t
On 2011-03-24 15:04:45, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On 3/24/11 10:31 PM, Kagamin wrote:
> >> The first step would be to examine if MinGW's tools could be used.
> >
> > No way. They're GPL.
>
> So?
I wouldn't think that the GPL would be a problem for build tools. It (and
LGPL) _is_ a problem for li
On 3/24/11, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> Now, string is pretty bad on the whole, but then again, there are plenty of
> cases where you just don't care about what a string is for.
You don't care now, but you'll care later when its time to fix a bug.
Sometimes, its obvious what a name is by looking at
On 3/24/2011 6:59 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Windows licenses are non-transferable
Apparently Microsoft has never heard of the First-Sale Doctrine.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Sale_Doctrine) WTF
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote in message
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> On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:02:05 -0400, Jonathan M Davis
> wrote:
>
>> Given that the other posts list XP with having 23:00 on the day before
>> rather
>> than at 00:00 for the dates in the middle, it looks like XP ha
> Given that the other posts list XP with having 23:00 on the day before
> rather than at 00:00 for the dates in the middle, it looks like XP has the
> same behavior as XP.
Ouch. Wasn't that profound. I meant that "it looks like XP has the same
behaviour as _Windows 7."
- Jonathan M Davis
> I definitely had "in" as a problem. Its because some people like to
> use that in C code. (Qt being the most recent example).
>
> I've also had issues with "string". That one can be common in C code.
> Its a pretty bad habit of naming your variables for what type they are
> instead of their purp
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:02:05 -0400, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
Given that the other posts list XP with having 23:00 on the day before
rather
than at 00:00 for the dates in the middle, it looks like XP has the same
behavior as XP. However, it looks like whatever time zone you have your
computer
> Jonathan M Davis:
> > But honestly, what you're trying to do just strikes me as plain weird.
> > Maybe it's a typical thing to do in scripting languages, but it
> > definitely isn't in compiled languages.
>
> It's very common in well designed Python modules. Probably you don't see it
> in compil
> On 3/24/2011 8:35 AM, spir wrote:
> > On 03/24/2011 05:32 AM, dsimcha wrote:
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> The new docs are at
> >> http://cis.jhu.edu/~dsimcha/d/phobos/std_parallelism.html .
> >
> > About the doc: very good. I could understand most of it, while knowing
> > nearly nothing about parallel
On 24/03/2011 21:35, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2011-03-24 22:16, Simon wrote:
On 24/03/2011 19:39, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:54:56 +0200, Trass3r wrote:
I don't want to edit the ideas wiki page without getting another
opinion, so what about:
Me too - how about an imag
On 3/24/11 10:31 PM, Kagamin wrote:
The first step would be to examine if MinGW's tools could be used.
No way. They're GPL.
So?
David
> I have no idea which 3 of the 4 continental US time zones you consider the
> "primary" ones, but I'm in Cleveland, which is the Eastern time zone (and
> the same as New York). I have no idea if it's currently daylight savings
> time or not - I can never remember which is which (But I do know we
>
On 2011-03-24 22:16, Simon wrote:
On 24/03/2011 19:39, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:54:56 +0200, Trass3r wrote:
I don't want to edit the ideas wiki page without getting another
opinion, so what about:
Me too - how about an image library? Being able to load/save popular
i
Trass3r Wrote:
> 1. 64 bit OMF
> 2. 64 bit librarian
> 3. 64 bit generating dmd
> 4. 64 bit C compiler
> 5. 64 bit symbolic debug info
> 6. 64 bit debugger
> 7. 64 bit C runtime"
>
> The first step would be to examine if MinGW's tools could be used.
No way. They're GPL.
> GDC and LDC theoretica
bearophile Wrote:
> I have explained Walter why that's not good:
> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=132693
>
Specific tasks are done with specific tools. If such a tool is adopted there
will be no discrepancy.
I have no idea which 3 of the 4 continental US time zones you consider the
"primary" ones, but I'm in Cleveland, which is the Eastern time zone (and
the same as New York). I have no idea if it's currently daylight savings
time or not - I can never remember which is which (But I do know we recent
On 24/03/2011 19:39, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:54:56 +0200, Trass3r wrote:
I don't want to edit the ideas wiki page without getting another
opinion, so what about:
Me too - how about an image library? Being able to load/save popular
image formats from/to RGB pixel arra
"Graham St Jack" wrote in message
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>
> I would be interested to hear some success stories for the
> unittest-keyword approach. So far I can't see any up-side.
>
If it weren't for the unittests working the way they do, I probably never
would have gotten ar
I definitely had "in" as a problem. Its because some people like to
use that in C code. (Qt being the most recent example).
I've also had issues with "string". That one can be common in C code.
Its a pretty bad habit of naming your variables for what type they are
instead of their purpose. I guess
Kagamin:
> you can switch on version matching the module name, or something similar that
> will be easy to switch in a makefile.
>
> module modu;
> version(modu)
> void main()
> {
> //...
> }
I have explained Walter why that's not good:
http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_gr
"Sönke Ludwig" wrote in message
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> I'm all for this change.
>
> Since there are already similar differences between 1.0 and 2.0 (e.g.
> invariant()) and projects can be fixed by a more or less simple search and
> replace, this would be a cheap way to clea
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:33:28 -0400, Bruno Medeiros
wrote:
Well, now we go back to discussion of the discussion of whether one
thinks it's worthwhile to use and IDE or not (for general development,
not just code reviews).
I don't want to go into this discussion again, at least not now so so
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:17:32 -0400, Alvaro
wrote:
D already has a long list of keywords, reserved words can't be used as
identifiers, which can be annoying. "body" in particular is a common
noun that programmers would gladly use as a variable name in physics
simulation, astronomy, mechan
== Quote from Sean Kelly (s...@invisibleduck.org)'s article
> On Mar 17, 2011, at 11:56 PM, Don wrote:
> > dsimcha wrote:
> >> I've accumulated a bunch of little libraries via various evening and
> weekend
> >> hacking projects over the past year or so, in various states of
> completion.
> >> Most
bearophile Wrote:
> Kagamin:
>
> > unittests should be able to be a demo code for the module. Sometimes they
> > say that unittests do demonstrate, how the module should work.<
>
> For me the code inside unittests and the demo code inside the main (and the
> functions called just by the main)
== Quote from Sean Kelly (s...@invisibleduck.org)'s article
> On Mar 17, 2011, at 11:56 PM, Don wrote:
> > dsimcha wrote:
> >> I've accumulated a bunch of little libraries via various evening and
> weekend
> >> hacking projects over the past year or so, in various states of
> completion.
> >> Most
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:17:03 -0400, Graham St Jack
wrote:
Regarding unit tests - I have never been a fan of putting unit test code
into the modules being tested because:
* Doing so introduces stacks of unnecessary imports, and bloats the
module.
As Jonathan says, version(unittest) works.
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:54:56 +0200, Trass3r wrote:
I don't want to edit the ideas wiki page without getting another
opinion, so what about:
Me too - how about an image library? Being able to load/save popular image
formats from/to RGB pixel arrays would be a great start, with everything
On Mar 17, 2011, at 11:56 PM, Don wrote:
> dsimcha wrote:
>> I've accumulated a bunch of little libraries via various evening and weekend
>> hacking projects over the past year or so, in various states of completion.
>> Most are things I'm at least half-considering for Phobos, though some belong
>
Walter:
> rdmd takes command line switches, which you can use to set the version for
> which
> main you want.
You are missing the point still, I was talking about a single standard version
that works in all cases.
Here is an example. I have a project (program) P, it contains many modules, its
Hello,
I'm new in the D community so I don't have a fully understanding of the short
term needs of the community itself. After reading the posts at
[http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/ide/Future_of_Descent_and_D_Eclipse_IDE_635.html]
I agree with Bruno that an ANTLR parser could b
On 3/23/2011 11:27 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
If you're on an Windows XP box and live in the continental U.S., I'd very much
appreciate if you could run this program and post the output:
XP:
1999-Mar-01 00:00:00
1999-Mar-08 00:00:00
1999-Mar-14 00:00:00
1999-Mar-14 01:00:00
1999-Mar-14 01:00:
I don't want to edit the ideas wiki page without getting another opinion,
so what about:
- helping with getting dmd produce x64 code on Windows.
To quote Walter:
"To do 64 bits on Windows requires:
1. 64 bit OMF
2. 64 bit librarian
3. 64 bit generating dmd
4. 64 bit C compiler
5. 64 bit sym
On 3/24/2011 11:47 AM, bearophile wrote:
I too have suggested to use the version() statement, but My_Demo is not a
_standard_ version generated automatically by tools like rdmd. In a project
you usually use many modules, and some of them have demo code in their main.
If you use rdmd or similar to
Jonathan M Davis:
> But honestly, what you're trying to do just strikes me as plain weird. Maybe
> it's a typical thing to do in scripting languages, but it definitely isn't in
> compiled languages.
It's very common in well designed Python modules. Probably you don't see it in
compiled languages
On 3/24/2011 4:07 AM, bearophile wrote:
I receive an error like:
OPTLINK (R) for Win32 Release 8.00.12 Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989-2010
All rights reserved. http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/optlink.html ... Offset
00137H Record Type 00C3 Error 1: Previous Definition Different : __Dmain ---
Has this idea/project been assigned a mentor? I'd like to ask them and
the list, what's the best thing for me to do right now to prepare for
this?
You could also have a look at http://dsource.org/projects/ddbi
This shows some past efforts to create database interfaces.
Hi,
I'm a second year student at De Montfort University studying Computer
Science. I am very much interested in working on the database API idea
that is proposed at
http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?GSOC_2011_Ideas#DatabaseAPI (I was
also quite interested in the containers idea, but it looks
== Quote from spir (denis.s...@gmail.com)'s article
> On 03/24/2011 06:04 PM, dsimcha wrote:
> > Hmm, you do have a point there. Two reasons:
> >
> > 1. map() was there first and at the time I didn't feel like renaming it.
> >
> > 2. I think map() is much more frequently useful than lazyMap() an
== Quote from Russel Winder (rus...@russel.org.uk)'s article
> Is there actually any point in having a lazy parallel map?
It's for pipelining. Please read the API documentation for details about how it
works. It's actually only semi-lazy.
> > > Unfortunately I don't have access to this kind of
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:50:56 +0800, KennyTM~ wrote:
> On Mar 24, 11 22:25, piotrek wrote:
>> On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:37:12 +0800, KennyTM~ wrote:
>>
>>> On Mar 24, 11 19:00, sclytrack wrote:
== Quote from piotrek (star...@tlen.pl)'s article
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:17:32 +0100, Alvaro wrot
On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 12:32 -0400, bearophile wrote:
> dsimcha:
>
> > I tried to keep it as consistent as possible with std.algorithm.
>
> OK. Then the question is why std.algorithm uses normal strings instead of q{}
> ones.
Actually the question why user strings at all, why not have a lambda
f
On 03/24/2011 06:04 PM, dsimcha wrote:
Hmm, you do have a point there. Two reasons:
1. map() was there first and at the time I didn't feel like renaming it.
2. I think map() is much more frequently useful than lazyMap() and name
verbosity
should be inversely proportional to usage frequency.
On 03/24/2011 05:32 PM, bearophile wrote:
I tried to keep it as consistent as possible with std.algorithm.
OK. Then the question is why std.algorithm uses normal strings instead of q{}
ones.
And regarding consistency with std.algorithm, a more important factor is that
std.algorithm.map is laz
On 03/24/2011 04:58 PM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
Am 24.03.2011 16:22, schrieb Don:
spir wrote:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-doc.html
I think this applies directly to D2.
Note: this post is no offence to Andrei's great work. Just a report we
/also/ need a free/copyleft D2 manual; or that TDP
dsimcha:
> 2. I think map() is much more frequently useful than lazyMap() and name
> verbosity
> should be inversely proportional to usage frequency.
I agree, but I have suggested to replace "map" => "amap" and "lazyMap" => "map"
(and to add a fully eager amap to std.algorithm). The increase o
> I have discussed this is little problem about three years ago; in the
> meantime the situation is changed (rdmd has appeared, DMD has grown the
> -deps switch, etc).
>
> I have a little module named "modu":
>
> module modu;
> import std.stdio;
> int foo() {
> return 0;
> }
> int main() {
>
== Quote from bearophile (bearophileh...@lycos.com)'s article
> dsimcha:
> > I tried to keep it as consistent as possible with std.algorithm.
> OK. Then the question is why std.algorithm uses normal strings instead of q{}
> ones.
I personally think "" strings look nicer for simple cases like "a +
> The library refernce has the following text concerning the is expression:
>
> 5. is ( Type Identifier : TypeSpecialization )
>
> The condition is satisfied if Type is the same as TypeSpecialization, or if
> Type is a class and TypeSpecialization is a base class or base interface of
> it. The Id
On Mar 24, 11 22:25, piotrek wrote:
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:37:12 +0800, KennyTM~ wrote:
On Mar 24, 11 19:00, sclytrack wrote:
== Quote from piotrek (star...@tlen.pl)'s article
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:17:32 +0100, Alvaro wrote:
D already has a long list of keywords, reserved words can't be use
spir:
>Very annoying esp. during development since running unittests on a module, or
>set of modules, requires a main() func.<
This is not so bad, because rdmd has a --main switch.
>* the linker automatically adds an empty main() to the first module if needed<
The linker probably has zero kno
Bruno Medeiros:
> I think that the concession that pure will be allowed to allocate memory
> does inescapably remove some of the guarantees that pure functions offer
> (like that one that the return value depends only on the arguments).
> One possible fix to this would be to say that the allocat
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:04:25 +0100, Don wrote:
> piotrek wrote:
>> On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:37:12 +0800, KennyTM~ wrote:
>>
>>> On Mar 24, 11 19:00, sclytrack wrote:
== Quote from piotrek (star...@tlen.pl)'s article
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:17:32 +0100, Alvaro wrote:
>> D already has a
dsimcha:
> I tried to keep it as consistent as possible with std.algorithm.
OK. Then the question is why std.algorithm uses normal strings instead of q{}
ones.
And regarding consistency with std.algorithm, a more important factor is that
std.algorithm.map is lazy, while you have a eager map, a
== Repost the article of Jens Mueller (jens.k.muel...@gmx.de)
== Posted at 2011/03/22 05:48 to digitalmars.D
%u Ishan Thilina wrote:
>> Well, The biggest question in my mind is that how many container types
>> that I should implement?
>Sorry to answer with a question: In which are you interested?
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:22:10 +0200, Don wrote:
I would say that what we really need is tutorials, rather than a
refernce work. Most urgently we need to make sure that the existing
tutorials that contain errors or refer to obsolete/removed features, get
pulled down.
Something of interest:
Am 24.03.2011 16:22, schrieb Don:
spir wrote:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-doc.html
I think this applies directly to D2.
Note: this post is no offence to Andrei's great work. Just a report we
/also/ need a free/copyleft D2 manual; or that TDPL's content becomes
free in a short while. Eve
> So how do you solve the problem?
>
> -
>
> > > This is a good example of why it's difficult to decide what "user
> > > input" is. One could consider that the 'user' in this case is the
> > > developer using the library, but I don't think that's the right
> > > choice.
> > >
> > > I'd
On 3/24/2011 11:00 AM, Michel Fortin wrote:
What it adds is a task pool, where you have a fixed number of threads
for an unlimited number of tasks. Spawning 10,000 threads because you
have 10,000 parallelizable tasks generally isn't a good idea.
That said, perhaps std.concurrency's "spawn" sh
spir wrote:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-doc.html
I think this applies directly to D2.
Note: this post is no offence to Andrei's great work. Just a report we
/also/ need a free/copyleft D2 manual; or that TDPL's content becomes
free in a short while. Even more since TDPL was kind of a p
So write some documentation then. We don't need any more philosophical
topics on what should/should not be done.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-doc.html
I think this applies directly to D2.
Note: this post is no offence to Andrei's great work. Just a report we /also/
need a free/copyleft D2 manual; or that TDPL's content becomes free in a short
while. Even more since TDPL was kind of a premature publ
On 24/03/2011 04:30, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 3/23/11 11:42 AM, Luca Boasso wrote:
Sorry for the late reply,
even tough I'm not an ANTLR expert, given my previous experience with
the tool
and having read most of the official book, I could help more on this GSOC
idea.
I have looked at http:
piotrek wrote:
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:37:12 +0800, KennyTM~ wrote:
On Mar 24, 11 19:00, sclytrack wrote:
== Quote from piotrek (star...@tlen.pl)'s article
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:17:32 +0100, Alvaro wrote:
D already has a long list of keywords, reserved words can't be used
as identifiers, whi
On 2011-03-24 10:43:08 -0400, dsimcha said:
Sounds like a good plan. In general, I've tried to keep the design of
std.parallelism simple but composable. I have no intention of
re-implementing any kind of message system when std.concurrency already
does this well. If this is what you want t
On 3/24/2011 10:34 AM, Michel Fortin wrote:
One thing I'd want to be sure however is that you can use a parallel
foreach from within a task. So if you have one or two tasks that could
benefit from data parallelism it won't bring the whole system down. From
the API I don't think it'll be a proble
On 2011-03-24 09:46:01 -0400, dsimcha said:
Please review the changes carefully, then, because this is a use case I
know next to nothing about and didn't design for.
Well, it's practically the same thing except you never want to execute
a task in the main thread, because the main thread acts
On 24/03/2011 06:36, Bekenn wrote:
On 3/23/2011 9:12 AM, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
Now that is an argument. Although I still don't agree: it really
shouldn't take that long to setup an IDE (if Netbeans and/or its PHP
plugin are crappy, don't use that to blame all IDEs :P ). But in any
case this is
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:37:12 +0800, KennyTM~ wrote:
> On Mar 24, 11 19:00, sclytrack wrote:
>> == Quote from piotrek (star...@tlen.pl)'s article
>>> On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:17:32 +0100, Alvaro wrote:
D already has a long list of keywords, reserved words can't be used
as identifiers, which
On 2011-03-24 14:05, spir wrote:
On 03/24/2011 12:07 PM, bearophile wrote:
I have discussed this is little problem about three years ago; in the
meantime the situation is changed (rdmd has appeared, DMD has grown
the -deps switch, etc).
I have a little module named "modu":
module modu;
import
bearophile Wrote:
> I put in their main() some demo code that shows what this module does (and a
> main is useful to run unittests too, rdmd has the --main switch for this).
> Most of my Python modules have such demo main code, that runs only if you run
> them as main modules.
>
unittests sho
On 3/24/2011 8:03 AM, Michel Fortin wrote:
On 2011-03-24 03:29:52 -0400, Sönke Ludwig
said:
Hm depending on the way the pool is used, it might be a better default
to have the number of threads equal the number of cpu cores. In my
experience the control thread is mostly either waiting for tasks
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