"BCS" wrote in message
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> Hello Nick,
>
>>> One #1 I'd be inclined to requier that the function be defined like
>>>
void DoIt(int delegate(int) dg...)
>>> D laready has this syntax for Typesafe Variadic Functions
>>> http://www.digi
Nick Sabalausky Wrote:
> > The first notation "_ % 2 == 0" has no boilerplate and Scala is statically
> > typed (unlike Python).
> >
>
> I like that very much, especially since you can use either the implicit _ or
> a manually named var. Although I would prefer something like "a", "b", etc,
> (
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> >
> > Oh, and last semicolon of a function should be optional :-)
> >
> >{ int x; int y :: return x+y }
> >
>
> Now there's a language war waiting to happen ;)
Psh! All that has to happen grammatically is that instead of using a
raw se
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> K&R was like
>> int add(x,y)
>>int x;
>>int y;
>> { return x+y }
>>
>
> Oh that's right, I knew it was something funky like that. (That would be a
> "bad redundancy". /me nods to Walter's Dobbs article.)
Well the n
"Bill Baxter" wrote in message
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> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Bill Baxter wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> 2) A ruby-like syntax for delegate literals : {|a,b| return a+b;}
I don'
Hello Nick,
One #1 I'd be inclined to requier that the function be defined like
void DoIt(int delegate(int) dg...)
D laready has this syntax for Typesafe Variadic Functions
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/function.html
I'm not quite convinced either way on this. For what reasons do you
th
"John Reimer" wrote in message
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> Hello Bill,
>
>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>
>>> "Michel Fortin" wrote in message
>>> news:gmbt40$18p...@digitalmars.com...
>>>
Perhaps it's offtopic in a D forum, but y
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Bill Baxter wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
2) A ruby-like syntax for delegate literals : {|a,b| return a+b;}
>>>
>>> I don't like that
>>>
>>
>> The thing I like about that is that it makes it much more clear at a glance
>> tha
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> 2) A ruby-like syntax for delegate literals : {|a,b| return a+b;}
>>
>> I don't like that
>>
>
> The thing I like about that is that it makes it much more clear at a glance
> that the "a,b" or "int a, int b" is associated with the code blo
"Nick Sabalausky" wrote in message
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>
> // "func" used to disambiguate between function call and function
> declaration
> func add { |int <- int x, int y |
>return x+y;
> }
>
This one has the added benefit of making it easy to distinguish between an
att
"BCS" wrote in message
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> Reply to Bill,
>
>>> I was about to say the same thing, but I think Yigal was just mixing
>> two distinct suggestions together:
>> 1) the trailing delegates proposal (aka ruby block) and
>
> I like that
>
Then we'
"hsyl20" wrote in message
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>> In D (with dlibs) it is:
>>
>> auto a = [97, 44, 67, 3, 22, 90, 1, 77, 98, 1078, 6, 64, 6, 79, 42];
>> auto b = a.filter((int i){return !(i % 2);});
>>
>> In Python:
>>
>> a = [97, 44, 67, 3, 22, 90, 1, 77, 98, 1078, 6, 64, 6, 79,
== Quote from Don (nos...@nospam.com)'s article
> As a first step, I created a wiki page and copied your list to it.
> http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?ScientificLibraries
> I think it would be really useful to fill in the contents of each of
> these libraries (as I've done for mine), so that
Frits van Bommel wrote:
Is it really that hard? Can't you just detect this case (non-void
function without a 'return' at the end but with inline asm inside)?
Since the compiler should know the calling convention[1], the register
that will contain the return value of the function should be a si
Hello Bill,
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Michel Fortin" wrote in message
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Perhaps it's offtopic in a D forum, but you should use the class
NSCharacterSet for that if you want to be efficient. There's a
couple of methods in NSS
Walter Bright wrote:
Is the inline assembling actually done by the LLVM back end, or the LDC
front end?
The frontend turns it into an GCC-style asm statement (with explicit
input and output constraints) that shows up as a function literal in the
IR (only valid as target of a 'call' instructio
Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote:
Now in Tango there's a bunch of code, like the following (copied from
tango.math.IEEE.d)
real ldexp(real n, int exp) /* intrinsic */
{
version(Really_D_InlineAsm_X86)
{
asm {
fild exp;
fld n;
fscale;
fst
hsyl20:
> In Scala :
> The first notation "_ % 2 == 0" has no boilerplate and Scala is statically
> typed (unlike Python).
There's a subtle line between "no boilerplate" and "magic (variables)", and the
Python syntax is less magic there. So thanks but no thanks.
I like the type system of Scala,
> In D (with dlibs) it is:
>
> auto a = [97, 44, 67, 3, 22, 90, 1, 77, 98, 1078, 6, 64, 6, 79, 42];
> auto b = a.filter((int i){return !(i % 2);});
>
> In Python:
>
> a = [97, 44, 67, 3, 22, 90, 1, 77, 98, 1078, 6, 64, 6, 79, 42]
> b = [x for x in a if not(i % 2)]
In Scala :
val a = List(97, 44
Is the inline assembling actually done by the LLVM back end, or the LDC
front end?
Bill Baxter wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 7:26 AM, BCS wrote:
Reply to Nick,
"Yigal Chripun" wrote in message
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Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
BCS wrote:
Hello bearophile,
I've taken a look at the syntax for lambda in other C-like
languages. This is fro
Reply to Bill,
I was about to say the same thing, but I think Yigal was just mixing
two distinct suggestions together:
1) the trailing delegates proposal (aka ruby block) and
I like that
2) A ruby-like syntax for delegate literals : {|a,b| return a+b;}
I don't like that
One #1 I'd be in
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 7:26 AM, BCS wrote:
> Reply to Nick,
>
>> "Yigal Chripun" wrote in message
>> news:gmd0u8$fg...@digitalmars.com...
>>
>>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>
BCS wrote:
> Hello bearophile,
>
>> I've taken a look at the syntax for lambda in other C-like
Reply to Nick,
"Yigal Chripun" wrote in message
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Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
BCS wrote:
Hello bearophile,
I've taken a look at the syntax for lambda in other C-like
languages. This is from Functional Java:
http://functionaljava.org/examples#Array.filte
"Yigal Chripun" wrote in message
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> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> BCS wrote:
>>> Hello bearophile,
>>>
I've taken a look at the syntax for lambda in other C-like languages.
This is from Functional Java:
http://functionaljava.org/examples#Array.fi
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
BCS wrote:
Hello bearophile,
I've taken a look at the syntax for lambda in other C-like languages.
This is from Functional Java:
http://functionaljava.org/examples#Array.filter
In Functional Java you can write this D syntax:
(int i, int j) { return i % 3 == j; }
as:
Hello everybody.
Here comes the second round of inline asm discussion related to LDC,
the LLVM D Compiler.
Last time was about naked inline asm and the problems it poses for a
backend like LLVM.
Since revision 920 in our mercurial tree, naked inline asm support is
good enough that Don's Bigint cod
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Michel Fortin" wrote in message
> news:gmbt40$18p...@digitalmars.com...
>>
>> Perhaps it's offtopic in a D forum, but you should use the class
>> NSCharacterSet for that if you want to be efficient. There's a couple of
>> methods in NSStri
"Michel Fortin" wrote in message
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>
> Perhaps it's offtopic in a D forum, but you should use the class
> NSCharacterSet for that if you want to be efficient. There's a couple of
> methods in NSString accepting NSCharacterSet too which you may be
> intereste
"Andrei Alexandrescu" wrote in message
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> BCS wrote:
>> Hello bearophile,
>>
>>> I've taken a look at the syntax for lambda in other C-like languages.
>>> This is from Functional Java:
>>> http://functionaljava.org/examples#Array.filter
>>>
>>> In Functional J
Sean Kelly wrote:
Chris R Miller wrote:
= Short Story =
I needed to search through a String (NSString) specifically to know
whether a character at a specific index is any one of a given set of
characters. Rather than subclass NSString, I decided to make a category:
> [snip]
Won't
BCS wrote:
Hello bearophile,
I've taken a look at the syntax for lambda in other C-like languages.
This is from Functional Java:
http://functionaljava.org/examples#Array.filter
In Functional Java you can write this D syntax:
(int i, int j) { return i % 3 == j; }
as:
{ int i, int j => i % 3 ==
Hello bearophile,
I've taken a look at the syntax for lambda in other C-like languages.
This is from Functional Java:
http://functionaljava.org/examples#Array.filter
In Functional Java you can write this D syntax:
(int i, int j) { return i % 3 == j; }
as:
{ int i, int j => i % 3 == j }
That s
Chris R Miller wrote:
Jacob Carlborg wrote:
Walter Bright wrote:
Setting aside the technical issues for the moment, isn't that exactly
what inheritance is supposed to be good for?
A few times I've had the need for this, I've always been able to solve
the problem but it would have been easier
Don wrote:
> As a first step, I created a wiki page and copied your list to it.
>
> http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?ScientificLibraries
>
> I think it would be really useful to fill in the contents of each of
> these libraries (as I've done for mine), so that we can get a good idea
> of
Lars Kyllingstad wrote:
I think D is, or at least could be, the scientific programming language
of the future. Here's why -- and possibly how:
A couple of years ago, I took a university class called Numerical
Physics. After finishing the course, I was left with the impression that
numerical c
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> So should I change "series" with "sequence"? How about what I called
> "ClosedFormSeries"? By that I meant a series, (pardon, sequence), in
> which there is no recurrence formula - the nth element a_n can be
> expressed in terms of n and a[0], ..., a[k] (a sort of "rand
Daniel Keep wrote:
grauzone wrote:
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
[snip]
Umm, go into class A and add whatever you need?
Maybe I can't, because it's foreign code. Changing it might increase
maintenance overhead, require recompilation of libraries, might
introduce additional module dependencies, whic
Michel Fortin:
> with the extension syntax I proposed for class extensions in
> D, you wouldn't have that problem (if implemented correctly) because
> the compiler would always know from where the function is comming and
> could therfore generate code so that the right function is called even
>
On 2009-02-04 01:36:59 -0500, Chris R Miller
said:
Unfortunately, they aren't in sequential order in the ASCII table, so
it's not as simple as determining if char c is numeric:
if ( c > '0' && c < '9' ) // c is numeric
Therefore, it's useful for searching quickly, without getting into the
On 2009-02-04 04:13:38 -0500, bearophile said:
Instead of using a "kitchen-sink" class, in D you can put such
functionality into a module, like the string module of Phobos or
similar libs.
I don't know Object-C, what you have done looks like the "monkey
patching" done sometimes in Ruby. Is
I've taken a look at the syntax for lambda in other C-like languages.
This is from Functional Java:
http://functionaljava.org/examples#Array.filter
In Functional Java you can write this D syntax:
(int i, int j) { return i % 3 == j; }
as:
{ int i, int j => i % 3 == j }
It's shorter and less clutte
Chris R Miller:
> As you can see, I added important functionality to the class NSString
> without going through all the trouble to make a new class and type cast
> between NSString and MyDerivedString all over the place. It's more
> transparent, and it's far better than a global function, or pl
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Great! I didn't know (haven't learned college-level Math in English;
sometimes I wonder how I fumbled through grad school without major
misunderstandings). By the way, I might have been wrong with the name
"series" itself. I thought "series" is something like a_n =
f
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