Re: Scala future, Sing#

2009-08-24 Thread Jari-Matti Mäkelä
bearophile wrote: > As Sing# (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_sharp ) and Chapel, Scala is > one of the languages to be followed more, because they share some of > future purposes of D2/D3. > > A small presentation about the close future of Scala (it's not a general > introduction to Scala): "S

Re: Scala future, Sing#

2009-08-24 Thread bearophile
Jari-Matti M.: >There are certainly truckloads of features that could be taken from Scala to >D.< But D2 is already quite complex, so it's better to add things carefully. For example patterm matching is useful, but it adds a lot of complexity too. >But I'm afraid that the desire to have famil

Re: D features - wanna start project

2009-08-24 Thread Thorsten Kiefer
Thanks a lot ot everybody who answered !!! toki Wrote: > Hi, > I love D, and after using Java for years I want to switch back to D. > I'm too lazy to google, and so wanna ask you. > 1. Is D still under development ? Is it still supported ? > 2. Which GUI lib would you suggest - which is the most

Re: Scala future, Sing#

2009-08-24 Thread Walter Bright
Jari-Matti Mäkelä wrote: bearophile wrote: As Sing# (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_sharp ) and Chapel, Scala is one of the languages to be followed more, because they share some of future purposes of D2/D3. A small presentation about the close future of Scala (it's not a general introducti

Turkish 'I's can't D either

2009-08-24 Thread Ali Cehreli
You may be aware of the problems related to the consistency of the two separate letter 'I's in the Turkish alphabet (and the alphabets that are based on the Turkish alphabet). Lowercase and uppercase versions of the two are consistent in whether they have a dot or not: http://en.wikipedia.or

Re: Turkish 'I's can't D either

2009-08-24 Thread Rainer Deyke
Ali Cehreli wrote: > Is option d possible with today's systems? Whose resposibility is > this anyway? OS? Language? Program? Something else? This appears to be a library issue to me. If Phobos can't do this properly, your options are basically: 1. Find a third party library solution. 2. Write

Re: Scala future, Sing#

2009-08-24 Thread Ary Borenszweig
Walter Bright escribió: Jari-Matti Mäkelä wrote: bearophile wrote: - OOP: Scala supports dynamic OOP optimizations unlike D (unless a VM is used). Do you mean knowing a class or virtual method has no descendants? Sure, you need to know the whole program to do that, or just declare it as fina

Re: Scala future, Sing#

2009-08-24 Thread Walter Bright
Ary Borenszweig wrote: Walter Bright escribió: Jari-Matti Mäkelä wrote: bearophile wrote: - OOP: Scala supports dynamic OOP optimizations unlike D (unless a VM is used). Do you mean knowing a class or virtual method has no descendants? Sure, you need to know the whole program to do that, or

Re: Turkish 'I's can't D either

2009-08-24 Thread Walter Bright
I think it's great that you're doing a Turkish programming tutorial! I can't help you, though, with details of the Turkish language because I have no idea how it works. The only thing I can suggest is using a setlocale for Turkish is the wrong way, as Unicode was supposed to get away from that