== Quote from Nick Sabalausky (a...@a.a)'s article
> Interesting thing, but devil's advocate: What would be the
uses/benefits of
> that versus just having "for each element" versions of the
operators?
Well the obvious benefit is that you don't have to create all
those extra version -- you get them
I'm a D n00b, so excuse my question if it is silly. I've cursorily "followed" D
for a few years, but only now bought "The D Programming Language" (great book,
very nicely written!) and started to really play with it.
I've run into two questions which I have not been able to find the answers to
== Quote from Simen kjaeraas (simen.kja...@gmail.com)'s article
> Peter Alexander wrote:
> > 1. How do I disable the GC?
> In a way, you don't. You can, however, replace it with a stub GC.
Cool. So the stub GC does nothing and has no overhead?
> > 4. Any plans for allocators?
> None of which I
"Bert van Leeuwen" wrote in message
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> I'm a D n00b, so excuse my question if it is silly. I've cursorily
> "followed" D for a few years, but only now bought "The D Programming
> Language" (great book, very nicely written!) and started to really play
> with
On 09/03/2010 11:42 AM, Bert van Leeuwen wrote:
2) Related to above, I want to do something like map, but not return a new
array, I want to modify elements in-place in the array. How do I do that?
(without explicitly iterating with foreach etc.)
I don't know if this is intended to be support
Thanks!
Nick Sabalausky Wrote:
> "Bert van Leeuwen" wrote in message
> news:i5qftb$2a2...@digitalmars.com...
> > I'm a D n00b, so excuse my question if it is silly. I've cursorily
> > "followed" D for a few years, but only now bought "The D Programming
> > Language" (great book, very nicely w
Pelle Wrote:
> On 09/03/2010 11:42 AM, Bert van Leeuwen wrote:
>
> > 2) Related to above, I want to do something like map, but not return a new
> > array, I want to modify elements in-place in the array. How do I do that?
> > (without explicitly iterating with foreach etc.)
>
> I don't know if
On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:32:47 +0400, Bert van Leeuwen wrote:
Pelle Wrote:
On 09/03/2010 11:42 AM, Bert van Leeuwen wrote:
> 2) Related to above, I want to do something like map, but not return
a new array, I want to modify elements in-place in the array. How do I
do that? (without explici
On 09/03/2010 12:32 PM, Bert van Leeuwen wrote:
Pelle Wrote:
On 09/03/2010 11:42 AM, Bert van Leeuwen wrote:
2) Related to above, I want to do something like map, but not return a new
array, I want to modify elements in-place in the array. How do I do that?
(without explicitly iterating wit
Pelle Wrote:
> On 09/03/2010 12:32 PM, Bert van Leeuwen wrote:
> > Pelle Wrote:
> >
> >> On 09/03/2010 11:42 AM, Bert van Leeuwen wrote:
> >>
> >>> 2) Related to above, I want to do something like map, but not return a
> >>> new array, I want to modify elements in-place in the array. How do I do
Philippe Sigaud wrote:
Hey, this question on SO makes for a good challenge:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3608834/is-it-possible-to-generically-implement-the-amb-operator-in-d
The amb operator does this:
amb([1, 2]) * amb([3, 4, 5]) == amb([3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10])
amb(["hello", "world"]) ~
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Love my iPhone. Love it. My last two phones were a Palm Treo and a
S
Hello Nick,
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Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
The scene was of the main character driving on a busy highway into a
crowded metropolis. The meaning was to question the veracity and
meaning of perception, existence, and human int
On 02/09/10 05:38, Philippe Sigaud wrote:
Hey, this question on SO makes for a good challenge:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3608834/is-it-possible-to-generically-implement-the-amb-operator-in-d
It's great to see someone doing the first D discussion topic
with the [challenge] annotation.
I just stumbled upon this in std.typecons:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/phobos/std_typecons.html#defineEnum
Might be useful from some, I guess.
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Don wrote:
>
On 03/09/10 23:38, BCS wrote:
Venison makes really bad beef. And as long as you expect it to tates
like beef it will taste bad. Same goes for most anything, if you think
it's something it's not, you'll think it's a bad example of what it's not.
It's rather serendipitous that you say that as I r
This would be awesome if the Mono guys were willing to cooperate.
-Craig
On 02/09/10 08:03, bearophile wrote:
Is it possible to try to replace (or just perform experiments) the D GC with
this one?
http://developers.sones.de/2010/09/01/taking-the-new-and-shiny-mono-simple-generational-garbage-collector-mono-sgen-for-a-walk/
Delegating the creation and management of
Andrej Mitrovic:
> I just stumbled upon this in std.typecons:
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/phobos/std_typecons.html#defineEnum
> Might be useful from some, I guess.
Thank you. I think std.typecons.defineEnum() may be removed. I don't think it's
useful now.
Bye,
bearophile
Justin Johansson:
> Bearophile, if you are reading this perhaps you might like
> to repost some of you previous "challenges" which have not
> received much attention with the [challenge] annotation in
> the subject line.
See:
http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.
On 9/2/10 21:58 CDT, Boris Wang wrote:
I think AA just laid emphasis on the proprietor of d language
I didn't participate to the creation of the content or layout.
Andrei
== Quote from Simen kjaeraas (simen.kja...@gmail.com)'s article
> Yes, very much so. However, Peter Alexander has misunderstood the
> ambiguous operator.
Hey, I was just going by what the guy posted :) He mentioned
nothing of tuples, and his examples certainly didn't show any
tuples.
On 9/3/10 10:43 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 9/2/10 21:58 CDT, Boris Wang wrote:
I think AA just laid emphasis on the proprietor of d language
I didn't participate to the creation of the content or layout.
Andrei
Yup, I'm the guy responsible for the new design (like it or hate it),
an
Justin Johansson Wrote:
> On 02/09/10 08:03, bearophile wrote:
> > Is it possible to try to replace (or just perform experiments) the D GC
> > with this one?
> >
> > http://developers.sones.de/2010/09/01/taking-the-new-and-shiny-mono-simple-generational-garbage-collector-mono-sgen-for-a-walk/
> >
bearophile wrote:
Justin Johansson:
Bearophile, if you are reading this perhaps you might like
to repost some of you previous "challenges" which have not
received much attention with the [challenge] annotation in
the subject line.
See:
http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_grou
On 9/3/10 11:58 CDT, bearophile wrote:
Andrej Mitrovic:
I just stumbled upon this in std.typecons:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/phobos/std_typecons.html#defineEnum
Might be useful from some, I guess.
Thank you. I think std.typecons.defineEnum() may be removed. I don't think it's
useful n
On 2010-09-03 19:58, Sean Kelly wrote:
Justin Johansson Wrote:
On 02/09/10 08:03, bearophile wrote:
Is it possible to try to replace (or just perform experiments) the D GC with
this one?
http://developers.sones.de/2010/09/01/taking-the-new-and-shiny-mono-simple-generational-garbage-collector
On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:33:40 -0400, bearophile
wrote:
Is it possible to try to replace (or just perform experiments) the D GC
with this one?
http://developers.sones.de/2010/09/01/taking-the-new-and-shiny-mono-simple-generational-garbage-collector-mono-sgen-for-a-walk/
Delegating the creat
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 19:51, Peter Alexander
wrote:
> == Quote from Simen kjaeraas (simen.kja...@gmail.com)'s article
> > Yes, very much so. However, Peter Alexander has misunderstood the
> > ambiguous operator.
>
> Hey, I was just going by what the guy posted :) He mentioned
> nothing of tuples
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 16:30, Justin Johansson wrote:
> On 02/09/10 05:38, Philippe Sigaud wrote:
>
>> Hey, this question on SO makes for a good challenge:
>>
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3608834/is-it-possible-to-generically-implement-the-amb-operator-in-d
>>
>
> It's great to see so
== Quote from Don (nos...@nospam.com)'s article
> That's not a very useful problem, because the timing depends entirely on
> BigInt, which is completely unoptimised for small values.
True, but it would be nice to get it as concise as Haskell's.
In an ideal world, we'd simply write it as:
auto H(
Don:
> That's not a very useful problem, because the timing depends entirely on
> BigInt, which is completely unoptimised for small values.
You are usually right, but this time what you say is useless. There are other
means to judge how good a program is, beside running time:
- Total line count
Something that seems fit for the D2 standard library, a lossless compressor
meant to speed up some memory-heavy operations (already used in Pytables):
http://blosc.pytables.org/trac
Bye,
bearophile
I wouldn't have thought of "this" representing an lvalue. However, the
following absurdity compiles and executes flawlessly. Just don't
uncomment the assignment to y.i!
class Yikes
{
int i;
this() { this = null; }
}
void main()
{
auto y = new Yikes();
// y.i = 0;
}
Is this a
bearophile wrote:
Don:
That's not a very useful problem, because the timing depends entirely on
BigInt, which is completely unoptimised for small values.
You are usually right, but this time what you say is useless. There are other
means to judge how good a program is, beside running time:
-
How is the website programmed? If done properly the page content is
independent of the style. Use page templates and CSS stylesheets so that
you have a single point of change for the entire website. Stay away from
static HTML files. Use PHP, JSP, Freemarker or something similar.
Using styleshe
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote in message
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> On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:03:59 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>
>> "Nick Sabalausky" wrote in message
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>>>
>>> B. Closed platforms are evil (not to be confused with clo
Don:
> Well, I would hate for somebody to waste their time trying to optimise
> that problem either for speed or memory consumption, when both are
> limited by a fairly simple, short-term library issue.
What is the short-term Phobos issue that limits the memory usage? In the
current Phobos2 I h
JMRyan:
> Is this a bug in the compiler (v.2.047)? Am I missing something in
> thinking it shouldn't be?
I think it's not a bug. It's not a common need, but a method may way want to
swap this with another. In Phobos this is done on a struct, see:
http://www.dsource.org/projects/phobos/browser/t
On Friday 03 September 2010 13:22:51 JMRyan wrote:
> I wouldn't have thought of "this" representing an lvalue. However, the
> following absurdity compiles and executes flawlessly. Just don't
> uncomment the assignment to y.i!
>
> class Yikes
> {
> int i;
> this() { this = null; }
> }
>
On 9/3/10 16:03 CDT, bearophile wrote:
JMRyan:
Is this a bug in the compiler (v.2.047)? Am I missing something in
thinking it shouldn't be?
I think it's not a bug. It's not a common need, but a method may way want to
swap this with another. In Phobos this is done on a struct, see:
http://www
On Friday 03 September 2010 14:22:46 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 9/3/10 16:03 CDT, bearophile wrote:
> > JMRyan:
> >> Is this a bug in the compiler (v.2.047)? Am I missing something in
> >> thinking it shouldn't be?
> >
> > I think it's not a bug. It's not a common need, but a method may way
Hello all-
I apologize since I'm sure this question has been asked numerous times
previous, but I could not find it in the last 10k messages.
Is there a rough time line for 64-bit DMD 2 support? (For Linux--I don't
care about Windows.) I understand that Walter is working on it and
certainly d
On 9/3/10 16:33 CDT, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Still, I don't know how you could make it a true rvalue.
It's very simple - make "this" the result of a hypothetical function call.
Andrei
Jacob Carlborg Wrote:
> On 2010-09-03 19:58, Sean Kelly wrote:
> >
> > It sounds pretty nice, but this bullet point could be a problem:
> >
> > * Uses write barriers to min i mize the work done on minor collections.
>
> Why would write barriers be a problem, could you elaborate?
I think write ba
On 9/3/10 1:31 PM, Adam B wrote:
How is the website programmed? If done properly the page content is
independent of the style. Use page templates and CSS stylesheets so
that you have a single point of change for the entire website. Stay
away from static HTML files. Use PHP, JSP, Freemarker or
On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:36:55 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote in message
Then I guess 99% of phones are evil?
99% of phones? Certainly not.
99% of *cell* phones? Absolutely, yes. Service provider lock-in is one of
the primary reasons I've never bought one.
Yes,
On Friday 03 September 2010 14:38:27 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 9/3/10 16:33 CDT, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > Still, I don't know how you could make it a true rvalue.
>
> It's very simple - make "this" the result of a hypothetical function call.
>
> Andrei
Ah, that would do it. Though you w
John Demme:
> Is this a one man-week feature or several man-months?
I think few Walter-months.
Each Walter-month is about three human-months ;-)
Bye,
bearophile
Andrei Alexandrescu:
> For classes this must be an rvalue.
OK. Why?
Bye,
bearophile
On 9/3/10 17:10 CDT, bearophile wrote:
John Demme:
Is this a one man-week feature or several man-months?
I think few Walter-months.
Each Walter-month is about three human-months ;-)
Should be quicker than that. I think we'll have something usable before
the end of this month. Walter wanted
On 9/3/10 17:16 CDT, bearophile wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu:
For classes this must be an rvalue.
OK. Why?
If you could change this from within a method you'd pretty much ruin
everything about object orientation.
Andrei
On 9/3/10 16:51 CDT, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
Well, it's just that they haven't got to it yet, or maybe they don't
feel it's as important as other issues. If something is 99% perfect and
you want to point out the 1%, I guess you're entitled to it. But if
everything else out there is only 90% p
Dnia 03-09-2010 o 23:37:18 John Demme napisał(a):
(Yes, all of those exponents are 4, not 2. This is actually a 4
dimensional
matrix, but for the purpose of most parts of the computation, I can
treat it
like a typical 2-dim matrix. Not relevant, I suppose, but perhaps
interesting.)
Very
On Friday 03 September 2010 15:18:25 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 9/3/10 17:16 CDT, bearophile wrote:
> > Andrei Alexandrescu:
> >> For classes this must be an rvalue.
> >
> > OK. Why?
>
> If you could change this from within a method you'd pretty much ruin
> everything about object orientatio
Peter Alexander wrote:
== Quote from Simen kjaeraas (simen.kja...@gmail.com)'s article
Yes, very much so. However, Peter Alexander has misunderstood the
ambiguous operator.
Hey, I was just going by what the guy posted :) He mentioned
nothing of tuples, and his examples certainly didn't show
Philippe Sigaud wrote:
Now, the 'real'/intriguing/mind-bending amb operator (from the 60's) does
like the Haskell implementation linked in SO does: backtracking on the
results to avoid some condition. If someone is up to the challenge of
implementing it in D, great! Maybe with closures? I never
Simen kjaeraas wrote:
I believe this will only work with arrays as input. Either that, or I
need
a way to make this work:
struct Foo( R ) if ( isForwardRange!R ) {
bool delegate( ElementType!R ) bar;
Filter!( bar, R ) range;
}
Or, well, something like it. I need a static type for
Hello Tomek,
Dnia 03-09-2010 o 23:37:18 John Demme
napisał(a):
(Yes, all of those exponents are 4, not 2. This is actually a 4
dimensional
matrix, but for the purpose of most parts of the computation, I can
treat it
like a typical 2-dim matrix. Not relevant, I suppose, but perhaps
interesti
Hello Walter,
Michel Fortin wrote:
Basically, you wanted to do what I did with my website. What was the
problem exactly? Creating a style sheet that displays the contents
well when read linearly? Or was it about how to trigger this
particular style sheet for iPhone and iPods? The later's quite
Apologies, but it appears I left in a section I should have
removed...ignore the "NOTES" section that contains a bulleted list. The
rest of the document describes everything in that list in better detail.
Casey
Hello,
As promised, I took some time to create a small document (just a text
file) to describe a potential logger for D. Glog was a major influence
on how the design turned out, though there are some differences.
Please note it's not a 100% solution yet. Hopefully this is closer to
what An
BCS wrote:
Setup a mobile.digitalmars.com that has hosts the same files as www.*
but a different .css?
A little work with the config files and you might even need only one
copy of the files on the server.
That might work.
On 02/09/2010 22:30, bearophile wrote:
BLS:
But if you like SF, buy the book from Stanislaw Lem. IMO the best SF
author and philosopher ever.
The SF author I like most is Greg Egan.
Any group of ten of his short stories contain more ideas than the whole career
of an average SF author :-)
Bye
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
But I have spent a fair amount of time with other Apple products. I even
used OSX as my primary system for about a year or two. And (aside from the
Apple II, which obviously doesn't quite count) there has never been a piece
of Apple software I've used more than a little f
I'm pretty sure that's only for albums which are stored as a single
flac file. They usually come with a .cue file which stores track
lengths so you can split up the huge flac file into each track as a
flac. Then you can have per-track info stored in the flac files
themselves. As for splitting a .fl
BLS:
> Thanks, Is there a book you would recommend from Greg Egan ? To be
> honest with you I have never heard about him.
Greg Egan is exceptionally good and he invents some of the most incredible
ideas, but he's not for everyone. He writes the hardest SF. So if you don't
like scientifically a
It still makes no sense to have it as a separate file.
Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
I'm pretty sure that's only for albums which are stored as a single
flac file. They usually come with a .cue file which stores track
lengths so you can split up the huge flac file into each track as a
flac. Then you ca
Sean Kelly wrote:
I think write barriers in this context are calls out to the GC to notify it
of reference changes, and these are generated by the compiler. A language
like D that can call inline ASM, external C routines, etc, simply can't
provide that guarantee. SafeD maybe.
Such write barri
Excellent. Thanks very much.
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 9/3/10 17:10 CDT, bearophile wrote:
>> John Demme:
>>> Is this a one man-week feature or several man-months?
>>
>> I think few Walter-months.
>> Each Walter-month is about three human-months ;-)
>
> Should be quicker than that. I thin
Tomek Sowiński wrote:
> Dnia 03-09-2010 o 23:37:18 John Demme napisał(a):
>
>> (Yes, all of those exponents are 4, not 2. This is actually a 4
>> dimensional
>> matrix, but for the purpose of most parts of the computation, I can
>> treat it
>> like a typical 2-dim matrix. Not relevant, I suppo
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 01:40, Simen kjaeraas wrote:
> Simen kjaeraas wrote:
>
> I believe this will only work with arrays as input. Either that, or I need
>> a way to make this work:
>>
>> struct Foo( R ) if ( isForwardRange!R ) {
>> bool delegate( ElementType!R ) bar;
>> Filter!( bar,
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