Re: How much to do

2011-10-07 Thread kennytm
bearophile wrote: > Recently lot of work has being done about "inout", and I think it is now > usable in D2. > > So this has made me ask how much needs to be done (in D language and/or > Phobos) to allow the correct compilation of exactly this useless demo > program (I think it is correct): > >

Re: how to build up the library..

2011-10-07 Thread Russel Winder
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 08:49 +0200, Jacob Carlborg wrote: [ . . . ] > I think it's important to support the range interface (or if it's > simpler, the array interface). I think ActiveRecord has a good high > level API which allows to lazily evaluate SQL queries. > > persons = Person.all # no quer

Re: how to build up the library..

2011-10-07 Thread Russel Winder
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 08:51 +0200, Jacob Carlborg wrote: [ . . . ] > I think it's important to have a solid low level database API which an > object oriented abstraction can be built upon. Why object oriented? Why not functional? The lesson form ORMs is that object oriented and relational can be

Re: How much to do

2011-10-07 Thread bearophile
kennytm: > Allow a template argument to treat a const(T[]) as a const(T)[] is a > different and a known problem IIRC. I don't fully understand the meaning of your answer, but I didn't want to imply that those two problems are new or unknown. Bye, bearophile

Re: D on GDC announced on reddit

2011-10-07 Thread Iain Buclaw
== Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org)'s article > http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/l3tk5/merging_in_the_gnu_d_language_compiler_to_gcc/ > Andrei Cool beans. Iain

Re: Color your terminal's output

2011-10-07 Thread Johannes Pfau
Jens Mueller wrote: >Hi, > >I started writing a simple module to color terminal output some time >ago. In a recent thread people seemed interested in having such >functionality. I cleaned up this code and kindly ask whether such a >module is considered a useful addition. > >On Posix systems it uses

Re: D on GDC announced on reddit

2011-10-07 Thread Walter Bright
On 10/6/2011 9:39 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/l3tk5/merging_in_the_gnu_d_language_compiler_to_gcc/ On Hacker News too: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3083125

My ignorance, or a bug - help please

2011-10-07 Thread Steve Teale
I was converting something that was a class to a struct, and ran into this (minimized as much as possible): import mysql; // The import mysql.d for the test contains only: /* extern (C): struct MYSQL{} MYSQL* mysql_init(MYSQL* mysql); */ // If I put this stuff in-line the error does not happen st

Re: My ignorance, or a bug - help please

2011-10-07 Thread mta`chrono
-- mysql.d extern (C): struct MYSQL{} MYSQL* mysql_init(MYSQL* mysql); -- main.d - import mysql; struct Connection { MYSQL _mysql; ~this() { } this(int dummy = 0) { mysql_init(&_mysql); } } void main() { C

Re: My ignorance, or a bug - help please

2011-10-07 Thread mta`chrono
If you don't need the internal data of struct MYSQL and you don't want to care about. Then just keep some reference in your program. alias void MYSQL; alias void MYSQL_RES; and then only use MYSQL* and pass it to every function. struct Connection { MYSQL* _mysql; ~this() { } t

Re: My ignorance, or a bug - help please

2011-10-07 Thread Christophe
Steve Teale , dans le message (digitalmars.D:146210), a écrit : > I was converting something that was a class to a struct, and ran into this > (minimized as much as possible): > > import mysql; > // The import mysql.d for the test contains only: > /* > extern (C): > struct MYSQL{} > MYSQL* mysql_i

Re: how to build up the library..

2011-10-07 Thread Marco Leise
Am 07.10.2011, 09:26 Uhr, schrieb Russel Winder : On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 08:49 +0200, Jacob Carlborg wrote: [ . . . ] I think it's important to support the range interface (or if it's simpler, the array interface). I think ActiveRecord has a good high level API which allows to lazily evaluate SQ

Re: how to build up the library..

2011-10-07 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2011-10-07 09:30, Russel Winder wrote: On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 08:51 +0200, Jacob Carlborg wrote: [ . . . ] I think it's important to have a solid low level database API which an object oriented abstraction can be built upon. Why object oriented? Why not functional? The point was that the l

Re: My ignorance, or a bug - help please

2011-10-07 Thread Steve Teale
The empty struct is a red herring. I cut mysql.d down to the bare minimum to help isolate the bug. I get exactly the same error with the complete mysql.d

Re: My ignorance, or a bug - help please

2011-10-07 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2011-10-07 11:55, mta`chrono wrote: If you don't need the internal data of struct MYSQL and you don't want to care about. Then just keep some reference in your program. alias void MYSQL; alias void MYSQL_RES; The correct way to do this is to declare an opaque struct, just as in C: struct

Re: how to build up the library..

2011-10-07 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2011-10-07 09:26, Russel Winder wrote: On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 08:49 +0200, Jacob Carlborg wrote: [ . . . ] I think it's important to support the range interface (or if it's simpler, the array interface). I think ActiveRecord has a good high level API which allows to lazily evaluate SQL queries

Re: how to build up the library..

2011-10-07 Thread Regan Heath
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:40:01 +0100, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2011-10-06 21:44, Jesse Phillips wrote: Regan Heath Wrote: That's just it however, I am not generous enough with my time to be of use to you/D/phobos. I spend my free time doing other things, and not working on the code I have

Re: Color your terminal's output

2011-10-07 Thread Trass3r
You could use ANSI codes on posix to avoid a dependency on curses: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Colors But I think using curses is ok. ncurses is MIT licensed and can be used as a dynamic library, so I don't think there are license problems. However, I'd recommend to load ncurses

Re: D on GDC announced on reddit

2011-10-07 Thread Trass3r
Am 07.10.2011, 11:27 Uhr, schrieb Walter Bright : On 10/6/2011 9:39 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/l3tk5/merging_in_the_gnu_d_language_compiler_to_gcc/ On Hacker News too: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3083125 And again they immediately

Re: D on GDC announced on reddit

2011-10-07 Thread Paulo Pinto
That will always happen. My self I think that Go is a better C and D a better C++. It remains to be seen how much they will be able to take from C and C++. Personaly I have been spending most of the time with Go, because of its similarity with Oberon. It brings back some good memories. Now D i

Re: Next in the Review Queue?

2011-10-07 Thread Dmitry Olshansky
On 07.10.2011 7:49, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 10/6/11 9:17 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Sunday, October 02, 2011 23:27:35 Jonathan M Davis wrote: The review for the region allocator has completed, so we need to choos something else to review now. I believe that the current items in the re

Re: D on GDC announced on reddit

2011-10-07 Thread Trass3r
Now D is also quite cool, I would just like for the language compilers to be a bit more stable. They have been vastly improving, really. Currently I do have more sucess proposing C++11 based solutions as Go or D based ones, on the type of corporate environment I work in. That's not D's or

Re: Color your terminal's output

2011-10-07 Thread Jens Mueller
Trass3r wrote: > >You could use ANSI codes on posix to avoid a dependency on curses: > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Colors > >But I think using curses is ok. ncurses is MIT licensed and can be > >used as a dynamic library, so I don't think there are license problems. > > > >Howeve

Re: Next in the Review Queue?

2011-10-07 Thread dsimcha
On 10/6/2011 11:49 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I suggest we go ahead with std.regex. Dmitry? Andrei My only concern is that Dmitry's code uses RegionAllocator. I was hoping to get RegionAllocator into Phobos first, but that obviously didn't happen.

Re: Color your terminal's output

2011-10-07 Thread Jens Mueller
Johannes Pfau wrote: > Jens Mueller wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I started writing a simple module to color terminal output some time > >ago. In a recent thread people seemed interested in having such > >functionality. I cleaned up this code and kindly ask whether such a > >module is considered a useful ad

Re: Color your terminal's output

2011-10-07 Thread Trass3r
Am 07.10.2011, 14:51 Uhr, schrieb Jens Mueller : Trass3r wrote: >You could use ANSI codes on posix to avoid a dependency on curses: >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Colors >But I think using curses is ok. ncurses is MIT licensed and can be >used as a dynamic library, so I don't th

Re: Next in the Review Queue?

2011-10-07 Thread Dmitry Olshansky
On 07.10.2011 17:04, dsimcha wrote: On 10/6/2011 11:49 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I suggest we go ahead with std.regex. Dmitry? Andrei My only concern is that Dmitry's code uses RegionAllocator. I was hoping to get RegionAllocator into Phobos first, but that obviously didn't happen. I f

Re: how to build up the library..

2011-10-07 Thread Adam Ruppe
What's the big advantage of Person.find_all_by_name_and_age("Joe", 15) over db.query("select * from people where name = ? and age = ?", "Joe", 15); The latter is much easier to write in the library and you retain all the flexibility of sql itself if needed.

Re: Color your terminal's output

2011-10-07 Thread Jens Mueller
Trass3r wrote: > Am 07.10.2011, 14:51 Uhr, schrieb Jens Mueller : > > >Trass3r wrote: > >>>You could use ANSI codes on posix to avoid a dependency on curses: > >>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Colors > >>>But I think using curses is ok. ncurses is MIT licensed and can be > >>>used

Re: Color your terminal's output

2011-10-07 Thread Trass3r
I see. You mean using curses if available and falling back to ISO/IEC 6429. So you think that supporting ISO/IEC 6429 terminals is too limited, aren't you? Well I personally only care about bash and Windoze console. I guess these support ISO 6429?!

Database interface design - was how to build up the library.

2011-10-07 Thread Steve Teale
I'm thinking that for each database that gets covered there will need to be two modules, like: etc.c.mysql etc.mysqld The etc.c.xxx modules would be completely different between databases - just translations of the necessary header files. The xxxd modules would be as similar as possible consisten

Re: D on GDC announced on reddit

2011-10-07 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Trass3r" wrote in message news:op.v2ze74ma3ncmek@enigma... >> Now D is also quite cool, I would just like for the language compilers >> to be a bit more stable. > > They have been vastly improving, really. > >> Currently I do have more sucess proposing C++11 based solutions as Go or >> D based

Re: Color your terminal's output

2011-10-07 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Trass3r" wrote in message news:op.v2zhq60v3ncmek@enigma... >> I see. You mean using curses if available and falling back to ISO/IEC >> 6429. So you think that supporting ISO/IEC 6429 terminals is too >> limited, aren't you? > > Well I personally only care about bash and Windoze console. I guess t

Re: D on GDC announced on reddit

2011-10-07 Thread Trass3r
Hell, they didn't even know about clang even though they were progressive enough to use C++0x. I once had a university professor who openly admitted C was the only language he knew - and yet he didn't even understand how C's null-terminated strings work. So he didn't really even know that o

Re: Database interface design - was how to build up the library.

2011-10-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/7/11 9:11 AM, Steve Teale wrote: I'm thinking that for each database that gets covered there will need to be two modules, like: etc.c.mysql etc.mysqld The etc.c.xxx modules would be completely different between databases - just translations of the necessary header files. The xxxd modules

Re: Database interface design - was how to build up the library.

2011-10-07 Thread Alex Rønne Petersen
On 07-10-2011 16:11, Steve Teale wrote: I'm thinking that for each database that gets covered there will need to be two modules, like: etc.c.mysql etc.mysqld The etc.c.xxx modules would be completely different between databases - just translations of the necessary header files. The xxxd modules

Re: The problem with std.conv.emplace

2011-10-07 Thread Benjamin Thaut
Am 04.10.2011 20:44, schrieb kennytm: Timon Gehr wrote: Is there already an enhancement request/bug report for this? I did mention nullptr_t in 5899. There is already a similar enhancement request: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5416 I would really appreciate a comment by W

Sorting algorithm

2011-10-07 Thread Xinok
Hi, it's been years since I've posted here. I just wanted to share something I worked on, a new sorting algorithm. It's a variant of merge sort, but much more memory efficient with only a small loss in performance. The most similar algorithm I know of is Timsort. I had need for a stable sortin

Re: Database interface design - was how to build up the library.

2011-10-07 Thread Steve Teale
Andrei, The suggestion in your penultimate paragraph is what I'm trying to get started. Maybe the answer to the problem with structs may lie somewhere in std.typecons in combination with the field discovery features supported by most databases. If we can manufacture the struct to suit the circum

Re: Database interface design - was how to build up the library.

2011-10-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/7/11 11:51 AM, Steve Teale wrote: Andrei, The suggestion in your penultimate paragraph is what I'm trying to get started. Maybe the answer to the problem with structs may lie somewhere in std.typecons in combination with the field discovery features supported by most databases. If we can

Re: Sorting algorithm

2011-10-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/7/11 11:42 AM, Xinok wrote: Hi, it's been years since I've posted here. I just wanted to share something I worked on, a new sorting algorithm. It's a variant of merge sort, but much more memory efficient with only a small loss in performance. The most similar algorithm I know of is Timsort.

Re: Database interface design - was how to build up the library.

2011-10-07 Thread Piotr Szturmaj
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: 1. MFC had at a point a wizard that generated one struct per resultset. It was an absolute maintenance disaster and they recanted by offering dynamically-bound result sets. The lesson there is that defining a struct for each query won't likely play out, so we better use

Re: Database interface design - was how to build up the library.

2011-10-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/7/11 12:02 PM, Piotr Szturmaj wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: 1. MFC had at a point a wizard that generated one struct per resultset. It was an absolute maintenance disaster and they recanted by offering dynamically-bound result sets. The lesson there is that defining a struct for each q

Re: Database interface design - was how to build up the library.

2011-10-07 Thread Adam Ruppe
In my database.d, I used a database row struct to provide both integer and key based indexes.

Re: Sorting algorithm

2011-10-07 Thread Xinok
On 10/7/2011 1:03 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 10/7/11 11:42 AM, Xinok wrote: Hi, it's been years since I've posted here. I just wanted to share something I worked on, a new sorting algorithm. It's a variant of merge sort, but much more memory efficient with only a small loss in performance

Re: Database interface design - was how to build up the library.

2011-10-07 Thread Steve Teale
Andrei, I've actually already got that in a way. Before I attempt to populate fields into a struct, the struct is checked to see if it conforms to the field properties. Steve

Re: Next in the Review Queue?

2011-10-07 Thread Jesse Phillips
Dmitry Olshansky Wrote: > Well, if Jesse won't mind. > I'll wrap the thing up in my phobos fork in a couple of moments. > Anyone going for review manager? > > > -- > Dmitry Olshansky I'm good with that. Hmm, maybe I can take on managing the review for you.

Re: Database interface design - was how to build up the library.

2011-10-07 Thread Sean Kelly
On Oct 7, 2011, at 8:46 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > On 10/7/11 9:11 AM, Steve Teale wrote: >> I'm thinking that for each database that gets covered there will >> need to be two modules, like: >> >> etc.c.mysql >> etc.mysqld >> >> The etc.c.xxx modules would be completely different between d

Re: Sorting algorithm

2011-10-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/7/11 12:23 PM, Xinok wrote: http://www.neowin.net/forum/blog/422/entry-3737-sort-algorithm-complete/ This is interesting. What do the numbers in the benchmark represent? Andrei I'll just post the code I used for benchmarking. Simply put, smaller numbers are faster. [snip] Thanks. It

Re: Sorting algorithm

2011-10-07 Thread Ellery Newcomer
tinkered with timsort a bit a few months ago. comparing that to your sort, I get numbers like xinokSort random: 77 ascending: 0 descending: 21 timsort random: 354 ascending: 1 descending: 4 where each are sorting a 500k element array of int, times are msecs, compilation flags were -O -i

Re: Database interface design - was how to build up the library.

2011-10-07 Thread Steve Teale
Andrei, So if I'm understanding you correctly, if structs are used, and there's a database change, then the app has to be rebuilt. If Variants, then only the app's config file has to be updated (or the app can look in the database to get such information) - have I got this right? Steve

Re: Sorting algorithm

2011-10-07 Thread Ellery Newcomer
On 10/07/2011 01:20 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > Also, which version of D are you using? I'm seeing that > std.algorithm.sort (introSort) performs quite badly; for example, it's > twice as slow on shuffled data against quickSort, and it also deals > badly with already sorted data. Generally i

Re: D on GDC announced on reddit

2011-10-07 Thread Jesse Phillips
Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/l3tk5/merging_in_the_gnu_d_language_compiler_to_gcc/ > > Andrei I like your comment about being in 1981. If I'm not mistaken, what he describes in this http://youtu.be/HxaD_trXwRE?t=7m55s is that toString is a Unique ad

Re: Database interface design - was how to build up the library.

2011-10-07 Thread Sean Kelly
On Oct 7, 2011, at 10:14 AM, Adam Ruppe wrote: > In my database.d, I used a database row struct to provide both > integer and key based indexes. Funny… I have a ResultSet object which contains an array of Column objects. Here's the basic idea: class ResultSet { static class Column {

Re: Database interface design - was how to build up the library.

2011-10-07 Thread Sean Kelly
On Oct 7, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Steve Teale wrote: > Andrei, > > So if I'm understanding you correctly, if structs are used, and there's a > database > change, then the app has to be rebuilt. If Variants, then only the app's > config > file has to be updated (or the app can look in the database to

Re: Sorting algorithm

2011-10-07 Thread Xinok
On 10/7/2011 2:20 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 10/7/11 12:23 PM, Xinok wrote: http://www.neowin.net/forum/blog/422/entry-3737-sort-algorithm-complete/ This is interesting. What do the numbers in the benchmark represent? Andrei I'll just post the code I used for benchmarking. Simply pu

Re: Database interface design - was how to build up the library.

2011-10-07 Thread Adam Ruppe
Sean Kelly wote: > Does your Row equate to the ResultSet above? Fairly similar. Mine looks something like this: interface ResultSet { // name for associative array to result index int getFieldIndex(string field); string[] fieldNames(); bool empty(); Row f

Re: Database interface design - was how to build up the library.

2011-10-07 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2011-10-07 16:11, Steve Teale wrote: I'm thinking that for each database that gets covered there will need to be two modules, like: etc.c.mysql etc.mysqld The etc.c.xxx modules would be completely different between databases - just translations of the necessary header files. The xxxd modules

Re: how to build up the library..

2011-10-07 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2011-10-07 15:34, Adam Ruppe wrote: What's the big advantage of Person.find_all_by_name_and_age("Joe", 15) over db.query("select * from people where name = ? and age = ?", "Joe", 15); The latter is much easier to write in the library and you retain all the flexibility of sql itself if ne

Re: Database interface design - was how to build up the library.

2011-10-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/7/11 1:27 PM, Steve Teale wrote: Andrei, So if I'm understanding you correctly, if structs are used, and there's a database change, then the app has to be rebuilt. Yes. Touched to update the structs and rebuilt. If Variants, then only the app's config file has to be updated (or the ap

Re: Database interface design - was how to build up the library.

2011-10-07 Thread Piotr Szturmaj
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 10/7/11 12:02 PM, Piotr Szturmaj wrote: Did you see http://pszturmaj.github.com/ddb/db.html ? It maps tuples, structs and arrays in similar manner. I did. Looks good. Why do you need DBRow? You could simply use Variant[], the given struct, or Tuple directly. Sur

Re: Next in the Review Queue?

2011-10-07 Thread Dmitry Olshansky
On 07.10.2011 21:48, Jesse Phillips wrote: Dmitry Olshansky Wrote: Well, if Jesse won't mind. I'll wrap the thing up in my phobos fork in a couple of moments. Anyone going for review manager? -- Dmitry Olshansky I'm good with that. Hmm, maybe I can take on managing the review for you. Th

Re: Sorting algorithm

2011-10-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/07/11 13:36, Ellery Newcomer wrote: On 10/07/2011 01:20 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Also, which version of D are you using? I'm seeing that std.algorithm.sort (introSort) performs quite badly; for example, it's twice as slow on shuffled data against quickSort, and it also deals badly

Re: Database interface design - was how to build up the library.

2011-10-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/07/11 15:00, Piotr Szturmaj wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 10/7/11 12:02 PM, Piotr Szturmaj wrote: Did you see http://pszturmaj.github.com/ddb/db.html ? It maps tuples, structs and arrays in similar manner. I did. Looks good. Why do you need DBRow? You could simply use Variant[],

Re: Sorting algorithm

2011-10-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/07/11 13:50, Xinok wrote: On 10/7/2011 2:20 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 10/7/11 12:23 PM, Xinok wrote: http://www.neowin.net/forum/blog/422/entry-3737-sort-algorithm-complete/ This is interesting. What do the numbers in the benchmark represent? Andrei I'll just post the code

Re: Garbage collection book

2011-10-07 Thread Caligo
I'm just wondering, does Glasgow Haskell Compile (GHC) have the most advanced GC? I remember reading where it said that GHC is like 10 years ahead of all the other compilers, or something to that effect.

Re: Next in the Review Queue?

2011-10-07 Thread Jesse Phillips
On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:34:26 +0400, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: > Thanks, that would be great. > > On the bright side of things I'm hitting a funky error after merging > FReD into phobos, compiler stops recognizing std.c.xxx in std.file and > issues errors like: > std/file.d(537) Error: undefined ide

Re: Garbage collection book

2011-10-07 Thread bearophile
Caligo: > I'm just wondering, does Glasgow Haskell Compile (GHC) have the most advanced > GC? > I remember reading where it said that GHC is like 10 years ahead of all the > other compilers, > or something to that effect. If you want to find an advanced GC that is years ahead of all other ones,

Re: Next in the Review Queue?

2011-10-07 Thread Jesse Phillips
On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:34:26 +0400, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: > On the bright side of things I'm hitting a funky error after merging > FReD into phobos, compiler stops recognizing std.c.xxx in std.file and > issues errors like: > std/file.d(537) Error: undefined identifier package c.stdio > > For

Re: Sorting algorithm

2011-10-07 Thread Xinok
On 10/7/2011 2:27 PM, Ellery Newcomer wrote: tinkered with timsort a bit a few months ago. comparing that to your sort, I get numbers like xinokSort random: 77 ascending: 0 descending: 21 timsort random: 354 ascending: 1 descending: 4 where each are sorting a 500k element array of int

Re: Sorting algorithm

2011-10-07 Thread Xinok
On 10/7/2011 5:08 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 10/07/11 13:50, Xinok wrote: On 10/7/2011 2:20 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 10/7/11 12:23 PM, Xinok wrote: http://www.neowin.net/forum/blog/422/entry-3737-sort-algorithm-complete/ This is interesting. What do the numbers in the benc

[OT] TortoiseGit and Hg

2011-10-07 Thread Nick Sabalausky
I've been getting more familiar with both git and hg, and I'm coming to the conclusion that I like TortoiseGit far more than TortoiseHg, but when I have to use them at the cmd line (which I hate to have to do), I can't stand Git's cmd line interface, but Hg seems to be pretty nice (and I like Hg

[std.database]

2011-10-07 Thread Steve Teale
I use this title at Andrei's suggestion, and repeat his idea that it be used as a prefix for discussions as we navigate toward a design. Unless there is resistance to the idea, I will on the job of implementing whatever we decide is appropriate. I am retired, and have the time to do it. It seems t