Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-02 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
On Thu, 02 May 2013 23:22:01 -0700, Jacob Carlborg wrote: Oh, and if it's not too late. Make sure there are microphones for the audience for the questions. If that's not available, it's important that the speaker (or someone) repeats the questions for the recording. Hurb Sutter is really g

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-02 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-05-03 01:59, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I'll answer community questions in my last talk at DConf 2013, which is about 24 hours from now. Please send yours here or on Twitter #dconf. Could you say something about the general development process of D, how the future of that looks like.

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-02 Thread Sergei Nosov
On Thursday, 2 May 2013 at 23:59:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I'll answer community questions in my last talk at DConf 2013, which is about 24 hours from now. Please send yours here or on Twitter #dconf. Andrei What are the plans regarding "functional part" of the language? 1) It seem

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-02 Thread d coder
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Joseph Cassman wrote: > If you could provide an update on the allocators design and implementation > -- progress and/or roadmap -- that would be great. Also if there are any > plans to update std.container as a result. > +1 And another one. I am working on an emb

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-02 Thread Joseph Cassman
On Thursday, 2 May 2013 at 23:59:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I'll answer community questions in my last talk at DConf 2013, which is about 24 hours from now. Please send yours here or on Twitter #dconf. Andrei If you could provide an update on the allocators design and implementation

DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
I'll answer community questions in my last talk at DConf 2013, which is about 24 hours from now. Please send yours here or on Twitter #dconf. Andrei

Re: Official D Grammar

2013-05-02 Thread Brian Schott
On Thursday, 2 May 2013 at 16:44:44 UTC, Bruno Medeiros wrote: (at moments it feels like you have to take a degree to learn how to use it effectively...) That or buy the documentation. Or both...

Re: ARM targetting cross-toolchain with GDC

2013-05-02 Thread Johannes Pfau
Am Thu, 02 May 2013 18:54:28 +0200 schrieb "Timofei Bolshakov" : > Thank you! > I will check that today. What to do about static asserts in > thread.d? Those should be fixed by the ucontext changes. The static if(__traits( compiles, ucontext_t )) code path will be used if we make ucontext_t avai

Re: Official D Grammar

2013-05-02 Thread Russel Winder
On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 17:44 +0100, Bruno Medeiros wrote: […] > To be honest, that's one of the reasons that put me off working with > ANLTR. It seems easy to create a parser with ANTLR, but to create an > efficient, well-behaved parser it looks quite complicated, in the sense > that you can't ab

Re: ARM targetting cross-toolchain with GDC

2013-05-02 Thread Timofei Bolshakov
Thank you! I will check that today. What to do about static asserts in thread.d? On Thursday, 2 May 2013 at 14:54:44 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote: Am Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:40:32 +0200 schrieb "Timofei Bolshakoc" : I was able to compile DGC to the Hello, World status for ARM using crosstools-ng 1.1

Re: Official D Grammar

2013-05-02 Thread Bruno Medeiros
On 26/04/2013 21:44, Brian Schott wrote: On Saturday, 20 April 2013 at 08:31:34 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: This uses ANTLR, as the other parser generators can't handle D's grammar. I'm beginning to think that ANTRL is not up to the task either. I've somehow managed to get the grammar to the poin

Re: Removing the "int foo[];" syntax

2013-05-02 Thread deadalnix
On Thursday, 2 May 2013 at 08:18:48 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Tuesday, 30 April 2013 at 22:36:44 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: I realize that it was left in to make C programmers happy I remember being mentioned by someone that it is more about simplifying porting of C headers to D than actually maki

Re: ARM targetting cross-toolchain with GDC

2013-05-02 Thread Johannes Pfau
Am Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:40:32 +0200 schrieb "Timofei Bolshakoc" : > I was able to compile DGC to the Hello, World status for ARM > using crosstools-ng 1.18 eglibc. uclibc would not work, it lack > some of the functions in the library, context switching. There > are several places I cheat ( to ge

Re: To help LDC/GDC

2013-05-02 Thread bearophile
To: NG D Subject: Re: To help LDC/GDC This D code comes from a Haskell solution by tanakh of the Lawnmower problem of the Google Code Jam 2013 Qualification Round: import std.stdio, std.string, std.conv, std.range, std.algorithm; void main() { immutable n = stdin.readln.strip.to!int; fo

Re: Removing the "int foo[];" syntax

2013-05-02 Thread Dicebot
On Tuesday, 30 April 2013 at 22:36:44 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: I realize that it was left in to make C programmers happy I remember being mentioned by someone that it is more about simplifying porting of C headers to D than actually making C programmers happy.

Re: Removing the "int foo[];" syntax

2013-05-02 Thread Dicebot
On Tuesday, 30 April 2013 at 22:36:44 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: I realize that it was left in to make C programmers happy I remember being mentioned by someone that it is more about simplifying porting of C headers to D than actually making C programmers happy.

Re: Removing the "int foo[];" syntax

2013-05-02 Thread bearophile
Brian Schott: It complicates the grammar and doesn't fit with D's style of declaraing variables. (type then identifier) I suggested something more moderate: to just disallow mixing C and D syntax in the same declaration: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5807 I realize that it