Re: Some feedback on the website.

2016-03-20 Thread earthfront via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 17 December 2015 at 13:44:31 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Thursday, 17 December 2015 at 11:47:23 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/16/2015 11:12 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote: Having said that, though, using ddoc for the website leads to other problems (e.g., the ongoing fiasc

Re: How can I report what I think a compiler's frontend bug

2016-03-20 Thread Marco Leise via Digitalmars-d
Am Sun, 20 Mar 2016 22:37:37 + schrieb Vincent R : > Now I need to understand what the original author wanted > to do by declaring these 2 constructors. It reminds me of what other wrappers do. The second constructor pair is the proper one and takes the regular arguments to construct the obj

Re: How can I report what I think a compiler's frontend bug

2016-03-20 Thread Mike Wey via Digitalmars-d
On 03/20/2016 11:37 PM, Vincent R wrote: On Sunday, 20 March 2016 at 19:06:32 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote: On Sunday, 20 March 2016 at 17:57:12 UTC, Vincent R wrote: On Sunday, 20 March 2016 at 16:16:18 UTC, Marco Leise wrote: Am Sun, 20 Mar 2016 11:28:19 + schrieb Vincent R : Hi, I would

Re: Is C++ trying to be like D?

2016-03-20 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
On 3/20/2016 3:48 PM, Walter Bright wrote: Walter was replaced by a D9000 computer years ago. He was jeopardizing the mission.

Re: Is C++ trying to be like D?

2016-03-20 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
On 3/20/2016 12:58 PM, deadalnix wrote: On Sunday, 20 March 2016 at 19:54:54 UTC, deadalnix wrote: C++ invented it all. They then took a time machine to teach Walter how good they are ! Walter never will admit it, but it sole it all from C++27 . Also I apparently involuntarily made Walter a ro

Re: How can I report what I think a compiler's frontend bug

2016-03-20 Thread Vincent R via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 20 March 2016 at 19:06:32 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote: On Sunday, 20 March 2016 at 17:57:12 UTC, Vincent R wrote: On Sunday, 20 March 2016 at 16:16:18 UTC, Marco Leise wrote: Am Sun, 20 Mar 2016 11:28:19 + schrieb Vincent R : Hi, I would like to start a new project (a bonjour/zer

Re: How can I report what I think a compiler's frontend bug

2016-03-20 Thread Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d
On 20 March 2016 at 20:06, Johan Engelen via Digitalmars-d < digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Sunday, 20 March 2016 at 17:57:12 UTC, Vincent R wrote: > >> On Sunday, 20 March 2016 at 16:16:18 UTC, Marco Leise wrote: >> >>> Am Sun, 20 Mar 2016 11:28:19 + >>> schrieb Vincent R : >>> >>>

Re: Is C++ trying to be like D?

2016-03-20 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 20 March 2016 at 19:48:22 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/20/2016 6:57 AM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: https://youtu.be/rQ_6qk1aFnQ I like how Jay Leno does a show about his cars and it's clearly by a car nut for car nuts. Yeah, he is great on that show! It shines through that he

Re: Is C++ trying to be like D?

2016-03-20 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 20 March 2016 at 19:54:54 UTC, deadalnix wrote: C++ invented it all. They then took a time machine to teach Walter how good they are ! Walter never will admit it, but it sole it all from C++27 . Also I apparently involuntarily made Walter a robot here. Or is he ? That would explain

Re: Is C++ trying to be like D?

2016-03-20 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 19 March 2016 at 13:23:55 UTC, Bauss wrote: Looking at C++14 and the proposed features for C++17 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B17 It looks a lot like C++ is trying to become similar to D. I believe that shows D's design pattern has been superior to C++'s from the start a

Re: Is C++ trying to be like D?

2016-03-20 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
On 3/20/2016 6:57 AM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: https://youtu.be/rQ_6qk1aFnQ I like how Jay Leno does a show about his cars and it's clearly by a car nut for car nuts.

Re: How can I report what I think a compiler's frontend bug

2016-03-20 Thread Johan Engelen via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 20 March 2016 at 17:57:12 UTC, Vincent R wrote: On Sunday, 20 March 2016 at 16:16:18 UTC, Marco Leise wrote: Am Sun, 20 Mar 2016 11:28:19 + schrieb Vincent R : Hi, I would like to start a new project (a bonjour/zeroconf wrapper and a gui browser using it). For the gui part I

Re: How can I report what I think a compiler's frontend bug

2016-03-20 Thread Vincent R via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 20 March 2016 at 16:16:18 UTC, Marco Leise wrote: Am Sun, 20 Mar 2016 11:28:19 + schrieb Vincent R : Hi, I would like to start a new project (a bonjour/zeroconf wrapper and a gui browser using it). For the gui part I would like to use my existing skills using wxWidgets wrapper (

Re: Defer in D

2016-03-20 Thread Nick Treleaven via Digitalmars-d
On 20/03/2016 16:18, Bauss wrote: defer((int i) => writeln(i), i); If it was defer(() => writeln(i)), would that do the same? (Dpaste won't seem to let me edit your example on my tablet). (or on my laptop) No that's not the same, since the reference to i does not change when doing: defer(()

Re: Defer in D

2016-03-20 Thread Bauss via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 20 March 2016 at 14:11:11 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote: On Saturday, 19 March 2016 at 23:16:40 UTC, Xinok wrote: I took a quick look through Phobos but didn't see anything similar so I wrote this as a proof of concept and to elicit discussion. This also works should the function throw

Re: How can I report what I think a compiler's frontend bug

2016-03-20 Thread Marco Leise via Digitalmars-d
Am Sun, 20 Mar 2016 11:28:19 + schrieb Vincent R : > Hi, > > I would like to start a new project (a bonjour/zeroconf wrapper > and a gui browser using it). > For the gui part I would like to use my existing skills using > wxWidgets wrapper (wxD). > So I have started to report a problem a fe

Re: Idea: std.build instead of dub and make-like tools

2016-03-20 Thread cym13 via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 20 March 2016 at 11:27:11 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: On Sunday, 20 March 2016 at 07:35:07 UTC, Piotrek wrote: I was thinking about simple declarative syntax plus fallback to imperative style for custom needs. That's exactly what I thought I'd accomplished ;) I will try to give a feedb

Re: GSoC 2016

2016-03-20 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d
On 21/03/16 4:03 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote: Due to unforseen circumstances, I am well behind dealing wit GSoC email, an I doubt I will beable to get on top of it till Thursday. There are at least five peopl I should be having conversations with but I fear it is unlikely to happen

GSoC 2016

2016-03-20 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d
Due to unforseen circumstances, I am well behind dealing wit GSoC email, an I doubt I will beable to get on top of it till Thursday. There are at least five peopl I should be having conversations with but I fear it is unlikely to happen in the next three days :-(   Russel. =

Re: State of interfacing with c++

2016-03-20 Thread Jakob Ovrum via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 18 March 2016 at 13:45:18 UTC, Jonas Drewsen wrote: Any pointers to reasonably up-to-date info about interfacing with c++ is much appreciated as well. The language documentation is up to date except for the section on exceptions: http://dlang.org/spec/cpp_interface.html I'd updat

Re: Defer in D

2016-03-20 Thread Nick Treleaven via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 19 March 2016 at 23:16:40 UTC, Xinok wrote: I took a quick look through Phobos but didn't see anything similar so I wrote this as a proof of concept and to elicit discussion. This also works should the function throw rather than return gracefully. http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/23c665bd

Re: Is C++ trying to be like D?

2016-03-20 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 20 March 2016 at 10:18:26 UTC, Anonymouse wrote: On Sunday, 20 March 2016 at 01:18:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Would one rather have a Ferrari Daytona replica made from a Corvette, or a Ferrari Daytona? Said crowd is made of die hard Corvette fans, who have been historically downp

Re: Why is this not a warning?

2016-03-20 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 16 March 2016 at 18:39:36 UTC, Mathias Lang wrote: Sadly, to solve that without imposing much pain on the users, you need a more decent VRP than we currently have, I just read Walter's Dr. Dobbs article on VRP: http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/value-range-propagation/229300211

Re: Females in the community.

2016-03-20 Thread karabuta via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 17 March 2016 at 17:07:28 UTC, deadalnix wrote: On Thursday, 17 March 2016 at 16:17:46 UTC, Karabuta wrote: Are there any female programmers using D? :) Are you programing by slamming your dick on the keyboard ? No ? Me neither. Therefore, your genitalia don't matter here. More

Re: Mention of D in recent Wired article about Dropbox leaving AWS

2016-03-20 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d
On 03/20/2016 02:10 AM, blake7 wrote: > On Saturday, 19 March 2016 at 19:14:58 UTC, Dicebot wrote: > >> This is actually very good news. It means there are at least some big >> companies that do measure technical impact of used programming >> languages instead of going with the trend :) And that t

Re: Mention of D in recent Wired article about Dropbox leaving AWS

2016-03-20 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 19 March 2016 at 07:36:36 UTC, Joakim wrote: "Crowling, Turner, and others originally built Magic Pocket using a new programming language from Google called Go. Here too, Dropbox is riding a much larger trend, languages designed specifically for the new world of massively distribut

Re: Up-to-date DIPs list

2016-03-20 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 17 March 2016 at 10:11:14 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote: But you need both, the possibility to vote and an overview of threads and post with highest votes. Don't be offended, but I think we are a bit off-topic here - my suggestions were about better ways to manage DIPs. What do

How can I report what I think a compiler's frontend bug

2016-03-20 Thread Vincent R via Digitalmars-d
Hi, I would like to start a new project (a bonjour/zeroconf wrapper and a gui browser using it). For the gui part I would like to use my existing skills using wxWidgets wrapper (wxD). So I have started to report a problem a few months ago: https://forum.dlang.org/post/rtarlodeojnmedgsn...@foru

Re: Idea: std.build instead of dub and make-like tools

2016-03-20 Thread Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 20 March 2016 at 07:35:07 UTC, Piotrek wrote: On Saturday, 19 March 2016 at 14:20:23 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: On Saturday, 19 March 2016 at 09:54:53 UTC, Piotrek wrote: On Saturday, 19 March 2016 at 09:51:03 UTC, Piotrek wrote: [...] But have to add that I want event simpler (no te

Re: Is C++ trying to be like D?

2016-03-20 Thread Anonymouse via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 20 March 2016 at 01:18:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Would one rather have a Ferrari Daytona replica made from a Corvette, or a Ferrari Daytona? Said crowd is made of die hard Corvette fans, who have been historically downplaying the extra spiffs of the Ferraris as useless. So now t

Re: Why is this not a warning?

2016-03-20 Thread Mathias Lang via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 16 March 2016 at 16:40:49 UTC, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Please consider the following program, which is a reduced version of a problem I've spent the entire of today trying to debug: import std.stdio; void main() { enum ulong MAX_VAL = 256; long value = -500; if( valu

Re: Females in the community.

2016-03-20 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 17 March 2016 at 16:17:46 UTC, Karabuta wrote: Are there any female programmers using D? :) Are you programing by slamming your dick on the keyboard ? No ? Me neither. Therefore, your genitalia don't matter here. Moreover, the socia Media representation of D sucks. I think we n

Re: Females in the community.

2016-03-20 Thread maarten van damme via Digitalmars-d
> This very sexist and you are clearly either very young or a closet misogynist Great, so you answer a poorly thought out attempt to encourage women to join this community by bashing on younger people?

Re: static ctors in shared libs

2016-03-20 Thread Marc Schütz via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 17 March 2016 at 20:54:57 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote: It's been some time since I looked at that code, but IIRC TLS ctors for newly loaded libraries are not run in old threads. There's nothing we can do about this without help from the C runtime. Hmm... are all module _destructors_

Re: Females in the community.

2016-03-20 Thread ag0aep6g via Digitalmars-d
On 17.03.2016 19:57, Ali Çehreli wrote: http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016#developer-profile-gender That link somewhat answers the "woman" versus "female" use as well (they use "female"). They don't use "female" as a noun, though. Search for "women" on that page, and rep

Re: RFC: Units of measurement for D (Phobos?)

2016-03-20 Thread ZombineDev via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 16 March 2016 at 13:39:48 UTC, Nordlöw wrote: On Wednesday, 16 March 2016 at 11:28:05 UTC, Nordlöw wrote: I'm working on these issues right now. Regularly updated here: https://github.com/nordlow/justd/blob/master/units.d https://github.com/nordlow/justd/blob/master/si.d BTW,

Re: Idea: std.build instead of dub and make-like tools

2016-03-20 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 19 March 2016 at 14:20:23 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: On Saturday, 19 March 2016 at 09:54:53 UTC, Piotrek wrote: On Saturday, 19 March 2016 at 09:51:03 UTC, Piotrek wrote: 2. Not "slim" syntax I have similar view on the syntax as Dicebot: http://forum.dlang.org/post/vqdhbplqezgdmgumf.

Re: Idea: std.build instead of dub and make-like tools

2016-03-20 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 19 March 2016 at 17:57:24 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Even 90% is not enough because it leads to forking functionality for those 10%, greatly diminishing standartization. And build systems are highly opinionated. Some people praise imperative systems like SCons - I find it very hard to re

Re: Females in the community.

2016-03-20 Thread ag0aep6g via Digitalmars-d
On 17.03.2016 17:17, Karabuta wrote: Are there any female programmers using D? :) Moreover, the socia Media representation of D sucks. I think we need a female, at least someone soft and mortal who actually understand how to communicate and build a community. Coders suck at these things and its n

Re: State of interfacing with c++

2016-03-20 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
On 3/18/2016 6:45 AM, Jonas Drewsen wrote: [...] dmd itself is a D main program that calls a lot of C++ code (the optimizer and back end) and so interfacing to C++ works on every platform dmd runs on.