On 2/16/2014 10:21 PM, Rory McGuire wrote:
Great news! In a strange way. Perhaps we could encourage the people that are not
accepted to make videos of their submissions by going to local universities and
asking if they can do a talk there?
Would be an interesting way of promoting D and getting
Interesting, do you have to run though all registered classes that are
sub-classes of the base class and cast them checking for null?
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Jacob Carlborg d...@me.com wrote:
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 06:09:35 UTC, Rory McGuire wrote:
A base class reference
hehe, sorry. I use GMail and your comment was the last comment so I ended
up commenting on your comment instead of the announcement.
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Tourist grava...@gravatar.com wrote:
Looks like you're being sarcastic.
What I meant is that sending comments twice
On 2/17/14, 0:40, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Sunday, 16 February 2014 at 23:40:58 UTC, 1100110 wrote:
On 2/16/14, 10:18, Elie Morisse wrote:
IMHO an approach that would not involve making a binary choice between
full D and minimal D is to add an option to make the linker strip
druntime and Phobos'
Both good and bad news. Awesome part is that D community is
already able to generate that much quality content for a yearly
conference. Somewhat sad part is that a lot of good stuff won't
be seen because simply publishing talks is not that encouraging
as hitting DConf itself :)
There are
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 13:45:03 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
Both good and bad news. Awesome part is that D community is
already able to generate that much quality content for a yearly
conference. Somewhat sad part is that a lot of good stuff won't
be seen because simply publishing talks is not
Dicebot píše v Po 17. 02. 2014 v 13:45 +:
There are some internal speculations about possibility to host
smaller european counterpart of DConf at Sociomantic in other
part of the year but have no idea if something will actually come
out of it eventually.
This would be great! I am
On 02/17/2014 12:18 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
I encourage all of them, accepted or not, to also submit their proposals
to other conferences.
Still in Silicon Valley but I think Code Camp is yet another conference
D should be present at. Twelve tracks, hundreds of speakers and sessions:
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 06:57:55 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
I would love to get some feedback on both the application and
the documentation
Have now done a dual-boot install of Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit, and
built COMPO using that. Seems to pass limited sanity testing.
Will make a .deb file
On 2014-02-17 13:20, Rory McGuire wrote:
Interesting, do you have to run though all registered classes that are
sub-classes of the base class and cast them checking for null?
No, that's not required. When a subclass is registered I'm storing a
templated delegate which performs the downcast.
On 2014-02-16 21:51, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
Right, but there is no obligation to follow this pattern. One is free to
just not do anything, and the GC will clean up your garbage.
I was replying to the issue that it's not possible to know in the
destructor of a class if it's destroyed by
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 06:40:54 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Sunday, 16 February 2014 at 23:40:58 UTC, 1100110 wrote:
On 2/16/14, 10:18, Elie Morisse wrote:
IMHO an approach that would not involve making a binary
choice between
full D and minimal D is to add an option to make the
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 07:46:04 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic
wrote:
On 2/17/14, Vladimir Panteleev vladi...@thecybershadow.net
wrote:
https://github.com/CyberShadow/Digger
Now I understand how you've managed to find offending pull
requests
for regressions so fast. Will try the tool as soon
On 2/17/2014 5:45 AM, Dicebot wrote:
Both good and bad news. Awesome part is that D community is already able to
generate that much quality content for a yearly conference. Somewhat sad part is
that a lot of good stuff won't be seen because simply publishing talks is not
that encouraging as
Am 17.02.2014 21:40, schrieb inout:
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 06:40:54 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Sunday, 16 February 2014 at 23:40:58 UTC, 1100110 wrote:
On 2/16/14, 10:18, Elie Morisse wrote:
IMHO an approach that would not involve making a binary choice between
full D and minimal D
At various academic conferences I have attended they have had Poster
Sessions where instead of a formal stand up and talk people put up A0
posters.
The submitter then can stand around to field questions and deeper
discussion from those interested.
Although A0 paper is a bit Old Worlde in this
First I would like to say thanks to Martin Nowak, Kenji Hara, Jordi
Sayol and Brad Anderson for their support. Their efforts directly impact
my ability to prepare the releases and they work tirelessly to ensure
that it happens.
RC1 is available for review:
All Systems:
On 2/17/2014 3:17 PM, Andrew Edwards wrote:
First I would like to say thanks to Martin Nowak, Kenji Hara, Jordi Sayol and
Brad Anderson for their support. Their efforts directly impact my ability to
prepare the releases and they work tirelessly to ensure that it happens.
Awesome! Thanks and
Andrew Edwards wrote:
On 1/26/14, 11:19 AM, Jordi Sayol wrote:
El 26/01/14 16:23, Dejan Lekic ha escrit:
On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 at 08:25:05 UTC, Jordi Sayol wrote:
El 22/01/14 02:06, Andrew Edwards ha escrit:
On 1/21/14, 6:02 PM, Jordi Sayol wrote:
El 21/01/14 23:29, Brad Anderson ha
Andrew Edwards wrote:
First I would like to say thanks to Martin Nowak, Kenji Hara, Jordi
Sayol and Brad Anderson for their support. Their efforts directly impact
my ability to prepare the releases and they work tirelessly to ensure
that it happens.
RC1 is available for review:
All
On 2/16/14, 10:55 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Hello,
Walter and I are hard at work on reviewing DConf 2014 submissions.
We'd like to thank all of you who have submitted. There is not even one
submission that we found sub-par or unacceptable.
That said, the sheer numbers force us to make
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:12:39 -0500, Jacob Carlborg d...@me.com wrote:
On 2014-02-16 21:51, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
Right, but there is no obligation to follow this pattern. One is free to
just not do anything, and the GC will clean up your garbage.
I was replying to the issue that it's
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 21:28:24 UTC, John Carter wrote:
At various academic conferences I have attended they have had
Poster
Sessions where instead of a formal stand up and talk people
put up A0
posters.
The submitter then can stand around to field questions and
deeper
discussion
On 2/17/2014 5:26 PM, Dejan Lekic wrote:
Speaking about Fedora, DMD will never get into their official repository.
I've spoken to them. Even the RPMFusion guys were sceptical. Reason is
simple, every new mirror would need to request permission from Walter to
distribute DMD backend.
Ask them to
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Jacob Carlborg d...@me.com wrote:
No, that's not required. When a subclass is registered I'm storing a
templated delegate which performs the downcast. Have a look at these two
methods:
On Tuesday, 18 February 2014 at 01:26:52 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
Andrew Edwards wrote:
First I would like to say thanks to Martin Nowak, Kenji Hara,
Jordi
Sayol and Brad Anderson for their support. Their efforts
directly impact
my ability to prepare the releases and they work tirelessly to
Am Tue, 11 Feb 2014 11:43:02 -0800
schrieb Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com:
I've toyed with this idea for a while, and wondered what the interest there
is
in something like this.
The idea is to be able to use a subset of D that does not require any of
druntime or phobos - it
On Sunday, 16 February 2014 at 15:43:31 UTC, Manu wrote:
int difficulty;
switch(e.note.note)
{
case 60: .. case 71:
difficulty = 0;
break;
case 72: .. case 83:
difficulty = 1;
break;
case 84: .. case 95:
difficulty = 2;
break;
case 96: .. case 107:
difficulty = 3;
break;
default:
difficulty =
Am Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:12:12 +
schrieb bearophile bearophileh...@lycos.com:
Steven Schveighoffer:
I think you overestimate the size of this project.
The project is very small as long as people don't start
creating (or modifying) library modules for such language subset.
Bye,
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 07:48:51 UTC, w0rp wrote:
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 01:16:44 UTC, Xavier Bigand
wrote:
Le 17/02/2014 01:36, w0rp a écrit :
On Saturday, 15 February 2014 at 03:36:29 UTC, michaelc37
wrote:
Writing a native D GUI library instead of wrapping a C++ one is
a
Am 11.02.2014 06:58, schrieb Sean Kelly:
On Saturday, 8 February 2014 at 16:46:26 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote:
Also, on a related note, is there any benefit in having core.sync
primitives not final? What would be a use case to inherit from e.g.
Mutex or Condition? GC does that with Mutex, but
On 2/16/2014 7:39 PM, Manu wrote:
I think a really useful construct could be made out of switch, but it seems that
it won't happen because it must support C code unchanged.
I tend to agree with Andrei on this - the proposals aren't fundamental or game
changing, and are kinda just bouncing the
I have a SWIG version of D-VTK but it is a little flaky and
s slow to generate. I've just started work developing D
wrapper for VTK based on their Java wrapper but it's very early
stages (started yesterday in fact).
If you've got a VTK wrapping that generates D code I'd love to
check
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 01:16:44 UTC, Xavier Bigand wrote:
Le 17/02/2014 01:36, w0rp a écrit :
On Saturday, 15 February 2014 at 03:36:29 UTC, michaelc37
wrote:
I'll try Qt5 later. The main reason I'm trying to get Qt4
working at the
moment is that I have experience with Qt4, but not
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 00:36:58 UTC, w0rp wrote:
On Saturday, 15 February 2014 at 03:36:29 UTC, michaelc37 wrote:
[1]
QtD is not actively maintained. It existed on
BitBucket: https://bitbucket.org/qtd/repo
before someone else forked it and moved to
GitHub:
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 08:29:41 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
vibe.d currently (ab)uses this fact to be able to use its own
mutex class as object monitors and for use in synchronized
blocks. I agree that they should generally be final, but please
let's add another way to plug in there when
On Friday, 14 February 2014 at 20:05:53 UTC, Rainer Schuetze
wrote:
The only drawback I see is that it makes compilation a bit
slower and pollutes object files with code just executed during
CTFE.
Currently, the bloat can be reduced like this:
void foo()
{
if (__ctfe)
{
//
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 02:22:10 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Feel free to paste these in a wiki page. Experience suggests
that me telling people what I think is important and must be
done has very limited impact.
I'd hazard a guess that this is in part because whatever
consensus
On 2/16/14, Abdulhaq alynch4...@gmail.com wrote:
that should of course be
https://github.com/alynch4047/smidgen
Nice. I've had a codegen project before which is currently stalled:
https://github.com/AndrejMitrovic/dgen
Some docs I wrote about peculiarities of wrapping C++:
On 2/16/2014 10:39 PM, Manu wrote:
Yeah, but when I suggest a..b, I suggest applying existing [) range rules,
as would be expected.
It doesn't make sense for enum keys, and I think the existing syntax is
acceptable for [] usage with enum keys, but you're not always switching on
enums.
Perhaps
On Sunday, 16 February 2014 at 15:43:31 UTC, Manu wrote:
So D offers great improvements to switch(), but there are a few
small
things I wonder about.
1.
case fall-through is not supported; explicit 'goto case n;' is
required.
With this in mind, 'break' is unnecessary. Why is it required?
It
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 04:00:08 UTC, Manu wrote:
Of course, I'd just write the above as:
int difficulty = e.note.note.between(60,108) ?
(e.note.note-60)/12 : -1;
Yes yes, very clever. Obviously it's an example and could come
in any shape
or form.
Personally, I also wouldn't do
Not everyone is fond of taking initiative, that's a known fact.
Me, I'm tired of seeing new big features and ideas popping up
when there's so much unfinished business in the language,
runtime and Phobos. When I left this NG (two years ago?)
'shared' was an infant, today it's just a tad more
On 17 February 2014 16:18, Andrei Alexandrescu
seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote:
On 2/16/14, 7:42 AM, Manu wrote:
So D offers great improvements to switch(), but there are a few small
things I wonder about.
TL;DR of my answer to this: at some point we must get used to the notion
that
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 09:33:01 UTC, Max Samukha wrote:
But that's an awful dangerous hack. A better solution is needed.
I have been thinking about addition of something like
`pragma(nocodegen)` to the language. Should be simple to
implement and can fix some of most crazy bloat
On 17 February 2014 18:43, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote:
On 2/16/2014 7:39 PM, Manu wrote:
I think a really useful construct could be made out of switch, but it
seems that
it won't happen because it must support C code unchanged.
I tend to agree with Andrei on this - the
On 2/16/14, 5:03 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 2/16/2014 7:42 AM, Manu wrote:
3. Why is 'default' necessary? If I'm not switching on an enumerated
type, then
many values are meaningless. requiring an empty 'default: break;' line
at the
end is annoying and noisy.
It originally was not required,
Andrei, what is current state of std.allocator? I am asking this
in context of recent Walter Phobos proposal (ScopeBuffer) to
evaluate how feasible is to define any relations between two at
current stage.
Marco Leise wrote in message
news:20140217030525.67a21...@org.homedns.org...
0xFFFD should probably be used only when error messages are
out of question like when displaying/printing text only.
What do you use for displaying text, if not a text editor?
On 17 February 2014 22:38, Chris Cain clc...@uncg.edu wrote:
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 04:00:08 UTC, Manu wrote:
Of course, I'd just write the above as:
int difficulty = e.note.note.between(60,108) ? (e.note.note-60)/12 : -1;
Yes yes, very clever. Obviously it's an example and could
I have created a small summary for this proposal based on
existing comments : http://wiki.dlang.org/Std.buffer.scopebuffer
By this point I consider initial discussion finished and from now
it is up to Walter to prepare his proposal to formal review for
Phobos inclusion.
Walter, please write
If a function is only used for CTFE, compiler can elide its codegen. It's
in the scope of optimization.
Kenji Hara
2014-02-17 22:48 GMT+09:00 Dicebot pub...@dicebot.lv:
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 09:33:01 UTC, Max Samukha wrote:
But that's an awful dangerous hack. A better solution is
2014-02-17 22:33 GMT+09:00 Manu turkey...@gmail.com:
On 17 February 2014 16:18, Andrei Alexandrescu
seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote:
On 2/16/14, 7:42 AM, Manu wrote:
So D offers great improvements to switch(), but there are a few small
things I wonder about.
TL;DR of my answer to
On 18 February 2014 01:02, Kenji Hara k.hara...@gmail.com wrote:
2014-02-17 22:33 GMT+09:00 Manu turkey...@gmail.com:
On 17 February 2014 16:18, Andrei Alexandrescu
seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote:
On 2/16/14, 7:42 AM, Manu wrote:
So D offers great improvements to switch(), but there
On 2/17/14, 5:55 AM, Dicebot wrote:
Andrei, what is current state of std.allocator? I am asking this in
context of recent Walter Phobos proposal (ScopeBuffer) to evaluate how
feasible is to define any relations between two at current stage.
Progress on std.allocator is slow but I do have a
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 14:51:20 UTC, Kenji Hara wrote:
If a function is only used for CTFE, compiler can elide its
codegen. It's
in the scope of optimization.
It can't know for sure it without some sort of WPO / LTO - and
those won't happen any time soon. I propose a simple
On 2/17/14, 7:42 AM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
Manu turkey...@gmail.com wrote in message
news:mailman.156.1392649746.6445.digitalmar...@puremagic.com...
I agree, to an extent. That's why I say if it is to be improved, I
guess it needs a new
name.
foreach eliminated almost all instances of for. I
2014-02-18 0:48 GMT+09:00 Dicebot pub...@dicebot.lv:
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 14:51:20 UTC, Kenji Hara wrote:
If a function is only used for CTFE, compiler can elide its codegen. It's
in the scope of optimization.
It can't know for sure it without some sort of WPO / LTO - and those
On 2/17/14, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote:
A match statement that figures type patterns and introduce names and
all that - that might be more interesting (though being far from a game
changer). But that's not quite what has been proposed in this thread.
There are some
Manu turkey...@gmail.com wrote in message
news:mailman.156.1392649746.6445.digitalmar...@puremagic.com...
I agree, to an extent. That's why I say if it is to be improved, I guess
it needs a new
name.
foreach eliminated almost all instances of for. I don't think anyone's
upset about
that.
On 2/17/14, 5:33 AM, Manu wrote:
On 17 February 2014 16:18, Andrei Alexandrescu
seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org mailto:seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org
wrote:
On 2/16/14, 7:42 AM, Manu wrote:
So D offers great improvements to switch(), but there are a few
small
things I
On 02/17/2014 04:59 AM, Manu wrote:
On 17 February 2014 03:14, Timon Gehr timon.g...@gmx.ch
...
Of course, I'd just write the above as:
int difficulty = e.note.note.between(60,108) ? (e.note.note-60)/12 : -1;
Yes yes, very clever.
I can't agree.
Obviously it's an example and
OT: Do you realise how harsh your posts often appear to people?
I often
find I need to restrain myself when replying to your blunt
dismissals of
peoples opinions/suggestions.
So, you admit that this is a disaster site, but are reluctant
to consider
what good may come of it?
I'm not
On 2/16/14, 12:09 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
Someone with serious knowledge should wade into this campaign of FUD.
The whole thread is wrong-headed.
Thanks for mentioning this. It's an interesting thread. I posted a
response:
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote in message news:ldtbcb$mel$1...@digitalmars.com...
A match statement that figures type patterns and introduce names and all
that - that might be more interesting (though being far from a game
changer).
I doubt one can really know if it's a game changer until it has
The mac mini used for the D auto-tester has a failing drive (all but
failed at this point). I've got the tools to crack it open and a new
drive on the way, but until then, the box is mostly dead. It's the only
mac tester.
So, to avoid going to go without testing on a mac for several days, I
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 09:46:15 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic
wrote:
Nice. I've had a codegen project before which is currently
stalled:
https://github.com/AndrejMitrovic/dgen
Some docs I wrote about peculiarities of wrapping C++:
https://github.com/AndrejMitrovic/dgen/wiki
Interesting
On 2/17/14, 10:59 AM, Jesse Phillips wrote:
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 17:03:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 2/16/14, 12:09 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
Someone with serious knowledge should wade into this campaign of FUD.
The whole thread is wrong-headed.
Thanks for mentioning this.
On 18 February 2014 02:48, Dejan Lekic dejan.le...@gmail.com wrote:
[snip]
And do you realise that every sentence in your post is matter your your
persona taste. It is extremely subjective, and you provide no proof that
majority of people who are interested in all this share your opinion,
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 17:03:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 2/16/14, 12:09 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
Someone with serious knowledge should wade into this campaign
of FUD.
The whole thread is wrong-headed.
Thanks for mentioning this. It's an interesting thread. I
posted a
17-Feb-2014 17:48, Dicebot пишет:
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 09:33:01 UTC, Max Samukha wrote:
But that's an awful dangerous hack. A better solution is needed.
I have been thinking about addition of something like
`pragma(nocodegen)` to the language. Should be simple to implement and
can
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 16:01:50 UTC, Kenji Hara wrote:
- Immediately called lambdas
enum x = (){ return some_sort_ctfe_calculartions; }; //
lambda codegen
is unnecessary.
True but this is only one of many cases.
- modue private functions
module a;
private string foo() {
Am Tue, 18 Feb 2014 01:01:18 +0900
schrieb Kenji Hara k.hara...@gmail.com:
In some case it would be possible without WPO/LTO:
- Immediately called lambdas
enum x = (){ return some_sort_ctfe_calculartions; }; // lambda
codegen is unnecessary.
- modue private functions
module a;
On 2/17/2014 5:49 AM, Manu wrote:
Refer to my other reply wrt the 'rubble' concept.
Sure :-)
I think a quality implementation would be fairly game changing. A properly
scoped and fully featured switch/select/match statement would result in some
radical simplifications of code all over the
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 04:40:52 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Sunday, February 16, 2014 21:35:01 Hannes Steffenhagen wrote:
isImplicitlyConvertible!(int,ulong) is true. Maybe this is just
me, but I get the impression that this is quite nuts. Why is an
implicit conversion from a signed
On 2/17/2014 5:33 AM, Manu wrote:
We can compact it a bit like this:
int difficulty;
switch(e.note.note)
{
case 60: .. case 71:
difficulty = 0; break;
case 72: .. case 83:
difficulty = 1; break;
case 84: .. case 95:
Am 17.02.2014 20:08, schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu:
On 2/17/14, 10:59 AM, Jesse Phillips wrote:
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 17:03:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 2/16/14, 12:09 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
Someone with serious knowledge should wade into this campaign of FUD.
The whole
On 2014-02-17 10:45, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
Clang itself has a C API, but from what I've read online it doesn't
export enough C++ typeinfo either, so I'd have to use the Clang C++
interface instead (maybe libtooling or something of that sort).
Why not contribute to Clang by adding the missing
On 2/17/2014 10:03 AM, Manu wrote:
Well, I firmly stand by all those convictions. They also look worse out of
context.
I don't think switch is particularly good, and firmly believe C's switch
statement was (is) a design catastrophe. I've believed that for 20 years. You're
welcome to disagree,
On 2014-02-17 17:01, Kenji Hara wrote:
- modue private functions
module a;
private string foo() { ... }
enum x = foo();
// Compiler can elide codegen for 'foo', if other declarations
// in module a don't use it for runtime code.
Private functions can be called from other
Le 17/02/2014 08:48, w0rp a écrit :
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 01:16:44 UTC, Xavier Bigand wrote:
Le 17/02/2014 01:36, w0rp a écrit :
On Saturday, 15 February 2014 at 03:36:29 UTC, michaelc37 wrote:
I'll try Qt5 later. The main reason I'm trying to get Qt4 working at the
moment is that I
Le 17/02/2014 09:18, eles a écrit :
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 07:48:51 UTC, w0rp wrote:
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 01:16:44 UTC, Xavier Bigand wrote:
Le 17/02/2014 01:36, w0rp a écrit :
On Saturday, 15 February 2014 at 03:36:29 UTC, michaelc37 wrote:
Writing a native D GUI library
Le 17/02/2014 09:54, Abdulhaq a écrit :
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 01:16:44 UTC, Xavier Bigand wrote:
Le 17/02/2014 01:36, w0rp a écrit :
On Saturday, 15 February 2014 at 03:36:29 UTC, michaelc37 wrote:
I'll try Qt5 later. The main reason I'm trying to get Qt4 working at the
moment is that
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 19:34:34 UTC, Brad Roberts wrote:
The mac mini used for the D auto-tester has a failing drive
(all but failed at this point). I've got the tools to crack it
open and a new drive on the way, but until then, the box is
mostly dead. It's the only mac tester.
So,
On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 21:00 +0100, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Am 17.02.2014 20:08, schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu:
On 2/17/14, 10:59 AM, Jesse Phillips wrote:
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 17:03:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 2/16/14, 12:09 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
Someone with serious
On 2/17/14, 1:51 PM, Joakim wrote:
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 19:34:34 UTC, Brad Roberts wrote:
The mac mini used for the D auto-tester has a failing drive (all but
failed at this point). I've got the tools to crack it open and a new
drive on the way, but until then, the box is mostly
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 17:03:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 2/16/14, 12:09 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
Someone with serious knowledge should wade into this campaign
of FUD.
The whole thread is wrong-headed.
Thanks for mentioning this. It's an interesting thread. I
posted a
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 22:19:24 UTC, ponce wrote:
Granted code bloat is a real thing and you _might_ have
instruction cache problems, but the problem only ever show
itself when the working set of code exceed the instruction
cache capacity. Ie. a huge executable might not be a good
On 2/17/2014 5:48 AM, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
On 2/16/14, 5:03 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
It originally was not required, but there was a campaign by a lot of D
users to make it required to deal with the common bug of adding a value
in one switch statement but forgetting to add it to another
On 2/17/14, 7:31 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 2/17/2014 5:48 AM, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
On 2/16/14, 5:03 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
It originally was not required, but there was a campaign by a lot of D
users to make it required to deal with the common bug of adding a value
in one switch
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 03:59:15 UTC, logicchains wrote:
On Sunday, 16 February 2014 at 20:29:04 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
It's not exactly true. What has happened is I spent a LOT of
time trying to make my C/C++ compiler fast. That experience
has enabled me to design D so it is
Hi all!
After 14 years using Perl for programming at job I'm now learning
D. (And enjoying it)
We've been using Perl (at job) for years for loading input data
(UTF files) into a database and using these data for different
purposes.
The volume of input data files has been constantly
On 2/17/14, Abdulhaq alynch4...@gmail.com wrote:
Interesting reading, it seems we've run into the same problems
(not surprising I suppose) and even come up with the same
solutions (virtual functions, return-by-value).
And then there are things like trying to allow access to protected
methods
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 00:27:44 UTC, Namespace wrote:
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 00:22:52 UTC, Casper Færgemand
wrote:
What about new evolved switch statement, called something as
to not confuse it with C syntax? It could be a simple rewrite
thing.
mysteryswitch (some expression)
On 2/17/2014 2:43 PM, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
Now suppose bit_flag can get an additional new_bit_flag value. How does
default helps me notice that I'm supposed to add it to that switch statement?
Because if you account for all the cases, you write:
default: assert(0);
Now you intentionally
On 2/17/14, Andrej Mitrovic andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/17/14, Abdulhaq alynch4...@gmail.com wrote:
Interesting reading, it seems we've run into the same problems
(not surprising I suppose) and even come up with the same
solutions (virtual functions, return-by-value).
And then
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 22:54:58 UTC, salvari wrote:
Hi all!
After 14 years using Perl for programming at job I'm now
learning D. (And enjoying it)
Hi, and welcome.
(...)
As a newbie I've a few questions. I'm already using D and it's
working fine, although I'm writing baby-D the
Robin wrote:
Hiho,
I am learning D since some time and I must say all in all it is
truely a better C++! I especially like the statement of Walter
Bright that nowadays it is more important that the programmer can
easily read programming text and do not have to interpret every
single line
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 19:08:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 2/17/14, 10:59 AM, Jesse Phillips wrote:
Andrei
It looks like you've been completely ignored.
This may be partly a logistics issue - my name appears garbled.
Have you posted to that Google group before? If you
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:01:38 -0500, Walter Bright
newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote:
On 2/17/2014 2:43 PM, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
Now suppose bit_flag can get an additional new_bit_flag value. How
does
default helps me notice that I'm supposed to add it to that switch
statement?
Because
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