Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-27 Thread via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 16:06:55 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 15:28:31 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: No... E.g.: On the same thread: 1. fiber A receives request and queries DB (async) 2. fiber B computes for 1 second 3. fiber A sends response. Latency: 1 second even

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-27 Thread via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 16:09:08 UTC, Chris wrote: It need not be new, it needs to be good. That's all. I don't understand this obsession people have with new things, as if they were automatically good only because they are new. Why not try square wheels? Uh, it's new, you know. New

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-27 Thread via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 14:47:08 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 14:18:33 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 12:15:03 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote: distribution across the cores, but in most scenarios the number of concurrent tasks should be high enough

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-27 Thread via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 12:48:04 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote: My personal opinion about the article - people may hate D equally for being too pragmatic. That Yeah, well, both the D/Go communities use the term pragmatic to gloss over underwhelming design issues in D/Go, and makes a point of

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-27 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 16:11:42 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: Not a broken design. If I have to run multiple servers just to handle an image upload or generating a PDF then you are driving up the cost of the project and developers would be better off with a different platform? You can

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-27 Thread Sönke Ludwig via Digitalmars-d-announce
Am 27.03.2015 um 17:11 schrieb Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com: On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 16:06:55 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 15:28:31 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: No... E.g.: On the same thread: 1. fiber A receives request

Re: Human unreadable documentation - the ugly seam between simple D and complex D

2015-03-27 Thread Xavier Bigand via Digitalmars-d
Le 27/03/2015 15:02, CraigDillabaugh a écrit : On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 10:10:37 UTC, Dominikus Dittes Scherkl wrote: On Thursday, 26 March 2015 at 19:32:53 UTC, Idan Arye wrote: But when it comes to heavily templated functions - understanding the signature is HARD. It's hard enough for

Re: Why dont dlang check NullPointer?

2015-03-27 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 14:39:36 UTC, Shammah Chancellor wrote: All the languages you mention run in a VM. In the case of a systems language like D, the operation system itself is intercepting the reference to invalid memory and sending a SIGSEG to the process. The default handler

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-27 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 03/26/2015 09:47 PM, Walter Bright wrote: It seems to me that every significant but one feature of Go has a pretty much direct analog in D I'm no Go expert, but AIUI, Go seems to be one of those languages that considers *lacking* certain features to *be* a feature. Ie the whole

Re: A reason to choose D over Go

2015-03-27 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 15:36:16 UTC, Idan Arye wrote: On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 10:17:01 UTC, Bienlein wrote: I recently made a pull request for a go tool and spent about half an hour trying to find some function to test whether an array contains a particular element. There are

Re: A reason to choose D over Go

2015-03-27 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 19:00:16 UTC, Chris wrote: Also, and this counts for something I think, Go is a trendy language right now, so when it comes to recruiting, I think having Go as a critical part of Repustate’s tech stack will help. Stop the world, I wanna get out! I was recently

Re: A reason to choose D over Go

2015-03-27 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 19:27:38 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 19:00:16 UTC, Chris wrote: Also, and this counts for something I think, Go is a trendy language right now, so when it comes to recruiting, I think having Go as a critical part of Repustate’s tech stack

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-27 Thread Sönke Ludwig via Digitalmars-d-announce
Am 27.03.2015 um 19:56 schrieb Walter Bright: On 3/27/2015 5:15 AM, Sönke Ludwig wrote: It has, that is more or less the original selling point. It also keeps an internal thread pool where each thread has a dynamic set of reusable fibers to execute tasks. Each fiber is bound to a certain

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-27 Thread w0rp via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 19:11:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/27/2015 5:48 AM, Dejan Lekic wrote: That `source.byLine.join.to!(string);` line for example, takes much longer time to understand than 20 lines of Go code. Any D newbie with knowledge of some modern language will struggle

Re: Human unreadable documentation - the ugly seam between simple D and complex D

2015-03-27 Thread CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 19:36:23 UTC, Xavier Bigand wrote: Le 27/03/2015 15:02, CraigDillabaugh a écrit : On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 10:10:37 UTC, Dominikus Dittes Scherkl wrote: clip Just a little point : I find some much examples not tested on Internet, so to me examples have to by

Re: Human unreadable documentation - the ugly seam between simple D and complex D

2015-03-27 Thread David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 19:44:10 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote: That is a good point. Ideally when building a library all the 'examples' in the documentation should be built too to make sure they are still valid. Example code should be marked as such, extracted and run through the compiler

Re: Can we deprecate D-style Variadic Functions

2015-03-27 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 14:24:47 UTC, Shammah Chancellor wrote: On 2015-03-26 01:04:03 +, Freddy said: On Thursday, 26 March 2015 at 00:11:05 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 22:12:04 UTC, Freddy wrote: D-style Variadic Functions found

change in github workflow!

2015-03-27 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d
We replace the old cherry-pick approach by introducing stable branches, more info here http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP75#Branching_strategy. This avoids having to manually identify bugfixes to be cherry-picked into the release branch (2.067.0 is missing at least 2 fixes) and helps us to do point

Re: change in github workflow!

2015-03-27 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 07:21:10PM +0100, Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d wrote: We replace the old cherry-pick approach by introducing stable branches, more info here http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP75#Branching_strategy. +1. It's about time! Thanks for making it finally happen!! --T

[Issue 14351] New: `inout` base class constructor can't be called

2015-03-27 Thread via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14351 Issue ID: 14351 Summary: `inout` base class constructor can't be called Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Keywords: rejects-valid

Re: Human unreadable documentation - the ugly seam between simple D and complex D

2015-03-27 Thread rumbu via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 16:55:34 UTC, Tobias Pankrath wrote: Regarding the scscscshghshshshhswarzThing, here we discuss the readability and accessibility of the documentation, not the power of the library. Every other language will use a variation of sortBy instead of the

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-27 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/27/2015 5:15 AM, Sönke Ludwig wrote: It has, that is more or less the original selling point. It also keeps an internal thread pool where each thread has a dynamic set of reusable fibers to execute tasks. Each fiber is bound to a certain thread, though, and they have to, because otherwise

Re: A reason to choose D over Go

2015-03-27 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 21 March 2015 at 22:16:10 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: This blog post describes what to consider when switching from python to go. http://blog.repustate.com/migrating-code-from-python-to-golang-what-you-need-to-know/#tips It's very interesting, because the long list of things to give

Re: dfmt options

2015-03-27 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d
On 03/27/2015 04:30 PM, Shammah Chancellor wrote: What am I missing? A way to configure this and have it look for the most relevant `.dfmtcfg` file! :) That is to say, make it look up from the current directory recursively until it finds a config file, and use that.This will greatly

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-27 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/27/2015 5:48 AM, Dejan Lekic wrote: That `source.byLine.join.to!(string);` line for example, takes much longer time to understand than 20 lines of Go code. Any D newbie with knowledge of some modern language will struggle understanding (and being 100% sure that he/she understands!) that

Re: DTanks Alpha

2015-03-27 Thread Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 15:16:06 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 23:37 +, Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Saturday, 21 March 2015 at 15:57:54 UTC, Dan Olson wrote: Kingsley kingsley.hendric...@gmail.com writes: In preparation for the London D meetup

Re: Mono-D on downloads page?

2015-03-27 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 20:40:25 UTC, bitwise wrote: Just curious why Mono-D isn't included on the Downloads page. AFAIK mono-d is meant to be installed from the plugin section of monodevelop, isn't it?

Re: Mono-D on downloads page?

2015-03-27 Thread bitwise via Digitalmars-d
It's an easy way for people to get started with D, and IMO, Mono-D, along with Visual D should be listed right at the bottom of the Getting Started page. http://dlang.org/getstarted.html

Re: Can we deprecate D-style Variadic Functions

2015-03-27 Thread Freddy via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 20:57:51 UTC, Freddy wrote: template VariadicFunction(alias Imp){ auto VariadicFunction(T...)(T args){ void* data=args; TypeInfo[T.length] rtti; foreach(i,type;T){ rtti[i]=typeid(type);

Re: Human unreadable documentation - the ugly seam between simple D and complex D

2015-03-27 Thread CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 19:47:47 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote: On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 19:44:10 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote: That is a good point. Ideally when building a library all the 'examples' in the documentation should be built too to make sure they are still valid. Example code

Associative Array of Const Objects?

2015-03-27 Thread bitwise via Digitalmars-d-learn
class Test{} void main() { const(Test)[string] tests; tests[test] = new Test(); } This code used to work, but after upgrading to dmd 2.067, it no longer does. --Error: cannot modify const expression tests[test] How do I insert an item into an associative array of const

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-27 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 20:20:07 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 03/26/2015 09:47 PM, Walter Bright wrote: It seems to me that every significant but one feature of Go has a pretty much direct analog in D I'm no Go expert, but AIUI, Go seems to be one of those languages that considers

Re: Mono-D on downloads page?

2015-03-27 Thread bitwise via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 20:41:17 UTC, weaselcat wrote: On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 20:40:25 UTC, bitwise wrote: Just curious why Mono-D isn't included on the Downloads page. AFAIK mono-d is meant to be installed from the plugin section of monodevelop, isn't it? True, but I think it

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-27 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/27/2015 1:20 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: I'm no Go expert, but AIUI, Go seems to be one of those languages that considers *lacking* certain features to *be* a feature. Ie the whole minimalism approach to language design. For people who value that (not for me personally though), it's a

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-27 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/27/2015 1:35 PM, weaselcat wrote: there's a difference between minimalism and blatantly not adopting core advances in language design over the past 40 years. Yes, and there's also a difference between gratuitous complexity and finding the underlying simplicity. It's a tricky thing

Re: Can we deprecate D-style Variadic Functions

2015-03-27 Thread Freddy via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 19:59:13 UTC, deadalnix wrote: To be fair, this is most likely going to be inlined an ditched away with any decent optimizer. It wouldn't even need alloca if sizeof and address of worked with tuples. ``` template VariadicFunction(alias Imp){ auto

Re: GtkD 3.1.0 released, GTK+ with D.

2015-03-27 Thread captaindet via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2015-03-26 17:41, Mike Wey wrote: GtkD is a D binding and OO wrapper of Gtk+ and is released on the LGPL license. Shortly after the last release, GtkD has been updated for GTK+ 3.16. GtkD 3.1.0 is now available on gtkd.org: http://gtkd.org/download.html great news - thanks for your

Re: change in github workflow!

2015-03-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 3/27/15 11:28 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 07:21:10PM +0100, Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d wrote: We replace the old cherry-pick approach by introducing stable branches, more info here http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP75#Branching_strategy. +1. It's about time!

Re: change in github workflow!

2015-03-27 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 18:21:32 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: We replace the old cherry-pick approach by introducing stable branches, more info here http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP75#Branching_strategy. [snip] Sounds good. It's not clear who will be merging stable into master and when (it's a

Re: 2nd London D Programmers Meetup - Robot Tank Battle Tournament

2015-03-27 Thread Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 13:21:21 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: On 25 Mar 2015 12:15, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 11:25 +, wobbles via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Tuesday, 24 March 2015 at 23:32:38

Mono-D on downloads page?

2015-03-27 Thread bitwise via Digitalmars-d
Just curious why Mono-D isn't included on the Downloads page.

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-27 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 20:58:44 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/27/2015 1:35 PM, weaselcat wrote: there's a difference between minimalism and blatantly not adopting core advances in language design over the past 40 years. Yes, and there's also a difference between gratuitous complexity

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-27 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 22:37:21 +, weaselcat wrote: On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 22:32:32 UTC, ketmar wrote: On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 16:11:41 +, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: Not a broken design. If I have to run multiple servers just to handle an image upload or generating a PDF then you

Re: GtkD 3.1.0 released, GTK+ with D.

2015-03-27 Thread Mike Wey via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 03/27/2015 10:27 PM, captaindet wrote: On 2015-03-26 17:41, Mike Wey wrote: GtkD is a D binding and OO wrapper of Gtk+ and is released on the LGPL license. Shortly after the last release, GtkD has been updated for GTK+ 3.16. GtkD 3.1.0 is now available on gtkd.org:

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-27 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 16:11:41 +, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: Not a broken design. If I have to run multiple servers just to handle an image upload or generating a PDF then you are driving up the cost of the project and developers would be better off with a different platform? but it is

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-27 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 22:32:32 UTC, ketmar wrote: On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 16:11:41 +, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: Not a broken design. If I have to run multiple servers just to handle an image upload or generating a PDF then you are driving up the cost of the project and developers

Re: Mono-D on downloads page?

2015-03-27 Thread bitwise via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 20:56:41 UTC, bitwise wrote: It's an easy way for people to get started with D, and IMO, Mono-D, along with Visual D should be listed right at the bottom of the Getting Started page. http://dlang.org/getstarted.html would it be accepted if I did a pull request

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-27 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 12:48:03 +, Dejan Lekic wrote: That `source.byLine.join.to!(string);` line for example, takes... ...almost no time to understand. it's a simple composition, the thing they should learn on their CS courses, along with lambda calculus (or functional programming, if you

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-27 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/27/2015 2:47 PM, weaselcat wrote: On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 20:58:44 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/27/2015 1:35 PM, weaselcat wrote: there's a difference between minimalism and blatantly not adopting core advances in language design over the past 40 years. Yes, and there's also a

Re: Mono-D on downloads page?

2015-03-27 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 22:57:16 UTC, bitwise wrote: On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 20:56:41 UTC, bitwise wrote: It's an easy way for people to get started with D, and IMO, Mono-D, along with Visual D should be listed right at the bottom of the Getting Started page.

Re: change in github workflow!

2015-03-27 Thread Jesse Phillips via Digitalmars-d
Good to hear! Unfortunately github doesn't allow to retarget pull requests, so if a pull targets the wrong branch, it needs to be reopened. The targeted branch is only important for three reasons: 1. Documents the intent of the pull request (the specific point release being targeted) 2.

Re: change in github workflow!

2015-03-27 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 21:37:23 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote: It's not clear who will be merging stable into master and when (it's a shame Github doesn't let you target multiple branches). Not sure we need a strict rule here and it shouldn't be necessary to do this after each merge. Could be

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-27 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 26 March 2015 at 08:39:14 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 14:00 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/30ad8b/why_gos_design_is_a_disservice_to_intelligent/ Andrei The reaction in the Go

Re: [OT]: Congrats Andrei!

2015-03-27 Thread Idan Arye via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 28 March 2015 at 01:51:39 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: Lets all give it up for Andrei and his wife Sanda. Who had their second son today (Dan)! Please congratulate them both. Ok now down to business, who wants to step up in place of Andrei hmm? But seriously we should all

Re: Advise for syntax highlighting

2015-03-27 Thread Jesse Phillips via Digitalmars-d
Vim is setup as: On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 10:34:58 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: I'm currently updating the TextMate D bundle for D2. I have a couple of questions for how to highlighting some specific code or how other editors/IDE's highlight them. * this in constructor this () {} Keyword

Re: Solution to problems:

2015-03-27 Thread bitwise via Digitalmars-d
This is what I imagine. I know it can be done, that is not the issue. This is all standard programming stuff. That is not the point. The point is, to discuss ideas freely so the best solution(Which is usually a combination of all relevant inputs). 1. Get up in the morning 2. Turn on computer.

Re: Advise for syntax highlighting

2015-03-27 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 15:23:56 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2015-03-27 16:04, Dicebot wrote: not at all. The fact it is reserved is already denoted by __, otherwise it is just another vairable/symbol. Doesn't this symbol also have special semantics? Not really. It has special value

Re: change in github workflow!

2015-03-27 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d
On 28/03/2015 7:21 a.m., Martin Nowak wrote: We replace the old cherry-pick approach by introducing stable branches, more info here http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP75#Branching_strategy. This avoids having to manually identify bugfixes to be cherry-picked into the release branch (2.067.0 is missing at

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-27 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce
There are some very interesting psychological dynamics in the reaction to this kind of piece. For me it was key that although it was clearly written in a humorous tone, and hurriedly, he seemed to speak from the heart - it is refreshing to see such work even when one doesn't agree with it.

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-27 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 06:49:05 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 04:05:30 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Programming is - for now - still a human activity, and what is important in human activities may not always be measured, and what may be easily measured is not

Re: readln() doesn't stop to read the input.

2015-03-27 Thread jonaspm via Digitalmars-d
module main; import std.stdio; import std.string; int main(string[] args) { int resp; char[] p, q; writefln(MENU DE OPCIONES); writefln(1) Modus Ponens); writefln(2) Modus Tollens); writefln(3) Silogismo Hipotetico); writefln(4) Salir); do{

[Issue 12228] Identifiers 'this' and 'super' should not be allowed as base classes

2015-03-27 Thread via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12228 --- Comment #7 from yebblies yebbl...@gmail.com --- With issue 14348 fixed, all cases from issue 2540 should be replaceable with typeof(this/super). I think we should seriously consider deprecating and eventually removing this behavior. eg Warning:

Re: Solution to problems:

2015-03-27 Thread Jesse Phillips via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 13:17:07 UTC, Jake The Baker wrote: My main point about the child remark is that there are very few people here(you, Walter, and a handful of others) actually doing all the heavy lifting and most others(including myself) just talk or do minimal work that ultimately

Re: OT; Donald Knuth on beauty, efficiency, and the programmer as artist

2015-03-27 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 11:33:39 UTC, Kagamin wrote: Hmm... science exists only as long as we don't understand something, then it disappears and only knowledge remains. Looks like he talks about engineering, but calls it science. One dismisses Knuth discussing the topic for which he is

[Issue 4149] refs displayed as pointers in gdb

2015-03-27 Thread via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4149 --- Comment #20 from github-bugzi...@puremagic.com --- Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/commit/2f4715db31e59f9514f14b704e6b3bee706a7900 test for Issue 4149 - refs

[OT]: Congrats Andrei!

2015-03-27 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d
Lets all give it up for Andrei and his wife Sanda. Who had their second son today (Dan)! Please congratulate them both. Ok now down to business, who wants to step up in place of Andrei hmm? But seriously we should all recognize that he will be busier then he already was, and will need to

Re: change in github workflow!

2015-03-27 Thread Paul O'Neil via Digitalmars-d
On 03/27/2015 05:25 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/27/15 11:28 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 07:21:10PM +0100, Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d wrote: We replace the old cherry-pick approach by introducing stable branches, more info here

[Issue 14348] typeof(x).ident is not accepted as a symbol

2015-03-27 Thread via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14348 github-bugzi...@puremagic.com changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |RESOLVED

[Issue 14348] typeof(x).ident is not accepted as a symbol

2015-03-27 Thread via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14348 --- Comment #2 from github-bugzi...@puremagic.com --- Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/commit/a10cb266a31c30bc3afd5d50ad629dc75dd2649f Fix Issue 14348 -

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-27 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/26/2015 3:53 PM, ketmar wrote: filling bugs like this huge project not compiling! is not working, as nobody wants to run dustmite on such projects, people just waiting for issue author to provide more information. Realistically, people who want to work on bug fixing are going to work on

[Issue 7176] Lambda = syntax for function and methods too

2015-03-27 Thread via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7176 --- Comment #19 from Ketmar Dark ket...@ketmar.no-ip.org --- Created attachment 1499 -- https://issues.dlang.org/attachment.cgi?id=1499action=edit working PoC with samples --

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-27 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 21:36:15 -0700, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/26/2015 3:53 PM, ketmar wrote: filling bugs like this huge project not compiling! is not working, as nobody wants to run dustmite on such projects, people just waiting for issue author to provide more information. Realistically,

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-27 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 28 March 2015 at 04:36:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/26/2015 3:53 PM, ketmar wrote: filling bugs like this huge project not compiling! is not working, as nobody wants to run dustmite on such projects, people just waiting for issue author to provide more information.

[Issue 4620] C++ constructor and template mangling, C++ ABI patch

2015-03-27 Thread via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4620 Paul O'Neil redballoo...@gmail.com changed: What|Removed |Added Keywords||C++ CC|

[Issue 13183] C++ namespace should not conflict with import root package

2015-03-27 Thread via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13183 --- Comment #3 from Paul O'Neil redballoo...@gmail.com --- Yes, that does work. Thanks for the workaround. I'm now a lot less concerned about this but still think it should remain open. --

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-27 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 04:55:47 +, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: But honestly, there already exists so much information on how to use DustMite... ...that people in bugzilla keep asking what it is. ANYONE should be able to use DustMite or Digger to reduce a test case down to reasonable size.

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