Recommended procedure to upgrade DMD installation

2016-08-04 Thread A D dev via Digitalmars-d
Hi group, Somewhat new to D. What is the recommended procedure, if any, to upgrade my DMD installation (on Windows, if that makes a difference)? I.e. If I have 2.70.0 and I saw that 2.17.1 is out now, I can look at the list of bug fixes and any new features in the new version and decide whe

Re: Recommended procedure to upgrade DMD installation

2016-08-05 Thread A D dev via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 5 August 2016 at 00:07:36 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: If you're running the installer, it will uninstall the previous version for you. If you are doing it manually, I recommend you delete the existing folder rather than overwriting it. Thanks for the info. If you are compiling 64-bit p

Re: Recommended procedure to upgrade DMD installation

2016-08-05 Thread A D dev via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 4 August 2016 at 22:20:12 UTC, Seb wrote: OT: 2.071.0 has been released in April - you may check more often ;-) That - 2.071.0 - was actually a typo - I meant to type 2.071.1 - which I read (probably on a recent edition of This Week in D) has been released recently. I never

Re: Recommended procedure to upgrade DMD installation

2016-08-06 Thread A D dev via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 6 August 2016 at 01:22:51 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: DMD ships with the OPTLINK linker and uses it by default. You generally don't need to worry about calling them directly Got it, thanks.

What influenced D? - goals, ideas, concepts, language features?

2016-10-11 Thread A D dev via Digitalmars-d
Hi list, I'm liking D as I keep using it (still new to it), and interested in how it evolved, hence this question. I have seen the Wikipedia article about D: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(programming_language) which mentions language influences (right sidebar). I've also read some other

Re: Fun: Shooting yourself in the foot in D

2016-10-27 Thread A D dev via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 27 October 2016 at 19:49:16 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: http://www.toodarkpark.org/computers/humor/shoot-self-in-foot.html Some entries for reference: C - You shoot yourself in the foot. - You shoot yourself in the foot and then nobody else can figure out what you did. C++ - Yo