"Walter Bright" wrote in message
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> Being forced to use something doesn't make that thing a success.
>
Unfortunately, I can think of a lot of counterexamples (any monopoly or
oligopoly, for instance). But I agree in spirit :)
bearophile wrote:
Walter Bright:
Microsoft's managed C++ on .net comes with multiple pointer types - managed
and unmanaged pointers - as far as I know, this was a technical success yet
a massive failure with users.
How do you define failure?
Nobody wanted to use it.
Maybe for D2 multiple
Walter Bright:
> Microsoft's managed C++ on .net comes with multiple pointer types - managed
> and
> unmanaged pointers - as far as I know, this was a technical success yet a
> massive failure with users.
How do you define failure? Maybe for D2 multiple pointer types are a failure as
you say,
bearophile wrote:
Walter Bright:
The other problem with a pinned/notpinned object is the object itself
cannot control who or how someone is pointing to it.
The type system may tell apart three kinds of pointers/references: 1)
hand-managed pointers, to GC memory or C heap memory; 2) GC-managed
Walter Bright:
> The other problem with a pinned/notpinned object is the object itself cannot
> control who or how someone is pointing to it.
The type system may tell apart three kinds of pointers/references:
1) hand-managed pointers, to GC memory or C heap memory;
2) GC-managed pointers to pinne
bearophile wrote:
Walter Bright:
There is no need for a pin attribute, the gc can determine if a class needs
pinning or not.
The same is probably true for pure functions too, the compiler can determine
what functions are pure and what are not pure.
But the purpose of a @pinned is that: 1) T
Walter Bright:
> There is no need for a pin attribute, the gc can determine if a class needs
> pinning or not.
The same is probably true for pure functions too, the compiler can determine
what functions are pure and what are not pure.
But the purpose of a @pinned is that:
1) The default become
"bearophile" wrote in message
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>
> In the meantime that Reddit thread is one of the worst I've seen on that
> usually interesting site.
That seemed to mainly just be that one guy (the one that kept making a bunch
of absurd and self-contradictory statements)
Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
> http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1622265
>
> Andrei
I see you've mentioned the library function move() in the interview. I might
have found an issue with move(), unless I missunderstood how it works. See my
post here:
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.com
On 08/11/2010 02:15 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
This is probably the last FreeBSD 7 release for D1. The next will be for
FreeBSD 8!
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html
http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.063.zip
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html
http://ftp.digitalmars.com/d
On 08/18/2010 11:59 AM, bearophile wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d2j8n/d_programming_language_interview_with_andrei/
I will need time to digest this interesting second part of your
interview, you say many complex things.
In the meantime that Reddi
Leandro Lucarella wrote:
Walter Bright, el 18 de agosto a las 10:08 me escribiste:
bearophile wrote:
Currently in the D2 GC there is no notion of pinned/unpinned class instances,
but eventually an attribute as @pinned may be added to D3, plus its related
semantics. It adds complexity to the lan
Walter Bright, el 18 de agosto a las 10:08 me escribiste:
> bearophile wrote:
> >Currently in the D2 GC there is no notion of pinned/unpinned class instances,
> >but eventually an attribute as @pinned may be added to D3, plus its related
> >semantics. It adds complexity to the language and it needs
On Wednesday, August 18, 2010 09:59:27 bearophile wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu:
> > http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d2j8n/d_programming_language
> > _interview_with_andrei/
>
> I will need time to digest this interesting second part of your interview,
> you say many complex things.
>
On 2010-08-18 06:13:25 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu
said:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1622265
Andrei
Quoting:
"""
The most difficult scenario here is a class that has a struct as a
member. If the struct has a destructor, it will be run
non-deterministically—or possibly n
bearophile wrote:
Currently in the D2 GC there is no notion of pinned/unpinned class instances,
but eventually an attribute as @pinned may be added to D3, plus its related
semantics. It adds complexity to the language and it needs to interact with
the GC, so it will get useful as the D GC becomes
Andrei Alexandrescu:
> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d2j8n/d_programming_language_interview_with_andrei/
I will need time to digest this interesting second part of your interview, you
say many complex things.
In the meantime that Reddit thread is one of the worst I've seen on that
On 08/18/2010 06:46 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:13:25 +0300, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1622265
Thanks, that was an interesting read.
It's possible that I'm missing something, but I think that C++'s default
constructor
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:13:25 +0300, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1622265
Thanks, that was an interesting read.
It's possible that I'm missing something, but I think that C++'s default
constructors + reference-type structs/classes allow a patt
On 08/18/2010 05:13 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1622265
Andrei
Now on reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d2j8n/d_programming_language_interview_with_andrei/
Thanks davebrk!
Andrei
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1622265
Andrei
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