Re: emscripten

2010-12-15 Thread Alexander Pánek
Vladimir Panteleev Wrote: > On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:27:28 +0200, Alexander Pánek > wrote: > > > D as server-side was once something I tried to achieve, but it wasn't > > the right time. It would have been perfect as backend for a full-blown > > JS browser app, only handling & shuffling dat

Re: emscripten

2010-12-14 Thread Alexander Pánek
Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > On 12/14/10 9:25 AM, Sean Kelly wrote: > > Adam Ruppe Wrote: > >> > >> Client side scripting sucks. It's garbage. Slow, incompatible, unreliable, > >> and a > >> piece of junk platform in general - it does very little that's > >> interesting. That's > >> not even gett

Re: Fwd: A public apology.

2009-06-18 Thread Alexander Pánek
Jarrett Billingsley wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Alexander Pánek wrote: Jarrett Billingsley wrote: I am sorry. I am not. I’m just thankful for being proven wrong when necessary. Also: wtf, Jarrett. Is that really you? That was me on beer. I'm an apologetic drunk. Should

Re: D Wiki

2009-06-17 Thread Alexander Pánek
Brad Roberts wrote: This has come up before and never really gone anywhere. I've considered setting up a new, modern, wiki for us to migrate to. Prowiki has a number of limitations that annoy me at least. The biggest is it's history management sucks. Looking at what changed over time is eithe

Re: Fwd: A public apology.

2009-06-17 Thread Alexander Pánek
Jarrett Billingsley wrote: I am sorry. I am not. I’m just thankful for being proven wrong when necessary. Also: wtf, Jarrett. Is that really you?

Re: "with" still sucks + removing features + adding features

2009-05-20 Thread Alexander Pánek
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Robert Fraser wrote: Frank Benoit wrote: Alexander Pánek schrieb: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: bearophile wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu: Thank you for bringing a "real" example that gives something to work on. Awful!< Well, one of your cases was wro

Re: "with" still sucks + removing features + adding features

2009-05-19 Thread Alexander Pánek
Georg Wrede wrote: Jarrett Billingsley wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Georg Wrede wrote: After several decades, I'm still uncomfortable when anybody writes .1, be it in programming or on street billboards. For what it's worth, I'm American and have neither seen the 'one-sided float

Re: "with" still sucks + removing features + adding features

2009-05-19 Thread Alexander Pánek
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: bearophile wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu: Thank you for bringing a "real" example that gives something to work on. Awful!< Well, one of your cases was wrong. Using the +1 at the end one of those cases become: case 'A' .. 'Z'+1, 'a' .. 'z'+1: Instead of what you hav

Re: why Unix?

2009-04-09 Thread Alexander Pánek
Daniel Keep wrote: Christopher Wright wrote: With Powershell, you need to be familiar with the tools for dealing with System.Data.DataTable or whatever. Maybe it would only take ten minutes. The most time it could save in that regard is an hour. The syntax for these commands is so simple, you

Re: My body is ugly (was Re: Contract programming syntax)

2009-04-08 Thread Alexander Pánek
Jarrett Billingsley wrote: Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Denis Koroskin <2kor...@gmail.com> wrote: On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:01:46 +0400, Kagamin wrote: Don Wrote: I agree, the 'body' keyword is the most useless thing in the language. I find it makes functions much harder to read. I hate my bo

Re: why Unix?

2009-04-07 Thread Alexander Pánek
Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 10:29:57PM -0400, Christopher Wright wrote: The Windows terminal emulator sucks. This is not subject to debate. What terminal emulator? This might be a bit of a nitpick, but Windows doesn't try to emulate a terminal (not in the OS anyway; there are

Re: why Unix?

2009-04-07 Thread Alexander Pánek
Walter Bright wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: It took me a couple of minutes to write under her eyes a script that downloaded HTML, scraped the code for links, followed those of interest, and output a concatenation of all pages she was interested in, with details highlighted, that was loadab

Re: D, so it happend...

2009-04-07 Thread Alexander Pánek
grauzone wrote: Alexander Pánek wrote: grauzone wrote: Christopher Wright wrote: Tom S wrote: How is compilar formed? How is compilar formed? How executable get maked? They need to do way> instain programer, who wriet thier compilars, just becuase these compilars cant get debuged?

Re: D, so it happend...

2009-04-07 Thread Alexander Pánek
grauzone wrote: Christopher Wright wrote: Tom S wrote: How is compilar formed? How is compilar formed? How executable get maked? They need to do way> instain programer, who wriet thier compilars, just becuase these compilars cant get debuged? It was on the newsgroup this mroing, a programe

Re: D, so it happend...

2009-04-07 Thread Alexander Pánek
Christopher Wright wrote: Tom S wrote: How is compilar formed? How is compilar formed? How executable get maked? They need to do way> instain programer, who wriet thier compilars, just becuase these compilars cant get debuged? It was on the newsgroup this mroing, a programer in d.D who had

Re: D, so it happend...

2009-04-06 Thread Alexander Pánek
Baas wrote: In the past 10 motnhs, I completly rewrote the D Compiler in C#! Wtf. No you didn't.

Re: The version of dsss I use

2009-04-06 Thread Alexander Pánek
Bill Baxter wrote: I really hope someone emerges to take over DSSS before too long here. I didn't think it was going to take so long. :-( If you have any bugfixes/patches/requests for DSSS, create a ticket for it and I'll review those. I do have commit rights, but I can't find the time to mai

Re: [OT] can't wait for tomorrow....

2009-04-03 Thread Alexander Pánek
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Walter Bright wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: 10:56 am my local time. Starting that minute, new messages in this newsgroup will start again reappearing as most recent. Did your computer get stuck in a wormhole? Seven messages from Simon Gomizelj are wrongly date

Re: Objective-D, reflective programming, dynamic typing

2009-04-02 Thread Alexander Pánek
Eljay wrote: Ultimately, I would love to have D support reflective programming and dynamic typing in the core language. I agree on the reflection part, just.. the dynamic typing part sounds very very very unlikely. D has a static type system for a reason, I highly doubt this is going to chan

Re: Objective-D, reflective programming, dynamic typing

2009-04-02 Thread Alexander Pánek
Jarrett Billingsley wrote: On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Robert Jacques wrote: On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:20:13 -0400, Eljay wrote: Although D 2.0 is a multi-paradigm programming language, it does not support two paradigms: + dynamic typing std.variant is a good example of a dynamic typing wra

Re: State of Play

2009-03-27 Thread Alexander Pánek
Denis Koroskin wrote: On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:33:43 +0300, Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Walter Bright wrote: Jarrett Billingsley wrote: So what about the following counterargument: "even if nightly builds were made available, how can we be sure that enough

Re: Is DSSS still being developed?

2009-03-22 Thread Alexander Pánek
Trass3r wrote: Seems quite inactive? :( Not quite, since Gregor is very busy with studying. Do you face any specific problems?

Re: for in D versus C and C++

2009-03-19 Thread Alexander Pánek
Steve Teale wrote: Don Wrote: Steve Teale wrote: for (; a It breaks a lot of broken C and C++ code. OK, that's possibly the case, but you know that among C programmers in particular there was an absolute prohibition on typing more characters than necessary. It’s just one character more i

Re: for in D versus C and C++

2009-03-19 Thread Alexander Pánek
Sergey Gromov wrote: for (; a Only in Enterprise Software!

Re: eliminate writeln et comp?

2009-03-19 Thread Alexander Pánek
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Denis Koroskin wrote: On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:26:16 +0300, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Denis Koroskin wrote: That's not a very frequent operation. In most cases you should use Cout("Hello"); instead. An ideal design solution, imo (fast, short and clear). Interest

Re: Encapsulating Locked File Appends

2009-03-10 Thread Alexander Pánek
dsimcha wrote: Is there an easy way to write a function, or a function already written for me, that will allow for a file shared between processes to be appended to safely? This should be done in a way that will make it impossible for two processes to write to it at the same time, using locking,

Re: OT -- Re: random cover of a range

2009-02-18 Thread Alexander Pánek
Jarrett Billingsley wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Alexander Pánek wrote: Jarrett Billingsley Wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Daniel de Kok wrote: Shouldn't we talk about D or (Belgian) beer here? :^) There are no parens about it. It's either Belgian or it's not beer.

Re: OT -- Re: random cover of a range

2009-02-17 Thread Alexander Pánek
Anonymous Coward wrote: Nick Sabalausky wrote: It takes a weak person to be harmed by words. Let me put it this way: if you've been picked on, put down, *hunted* by the people around you and generally treated as a sub-human piece of worthless garbage for over eight years of your life across

Re: OT -- Re: random cover of a range

2009-02-17 Thread Alexander Pánek
Christopher Wright wrote: I can't take it any more! Shouldn’t it be “anymore” or “any longer”? ;P

Re: OT -- Re: random cover of a range

2009-02-16 Thread Alexander Pánek
Nick Sabalausky wrote: The closet rebel in me can't help but be tempted to make a risque' drawing involving the anthropomorphic D mascot. And maybe toss in Tux, the BSD deamon, an...apple...and...umm...a window, I guess...to like, symbolize cross-platform harmony...or something...and stuff...du

Re: OT -- Re: random cover of a range

2009-02-16 Thread Alexander Pánek
Steve Schveighoffer wrote: On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:42:17 -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: BCS wrote: Hello Andrei, Let me add one too: there/their. Andrei Oops :( I don't /think/ I'm dyslexic :b That lysdexia is a killer isn't it :o). Andrei dyslexics of the world untie!!! I put

Re: Compiler as dll

2009-01-28 Thread Alexander Pánek
grauzone wrote: John Reimer wrote: ddl does not work for memory sharing like normal dll's, where multiple applications have access to a single dll at runtime. It appears that such support would be quite difficult to implement and moves in the direction of operating system features. Couldn't

Re: Any chance to call Tango as Extended Standard Library

2009-01-21 Thread Alexander Pánek
John Reimer wrote: > > Don wrote: The other option (which I would prefer) is for druntime to get bigger, and encompass more of the common code from both. So that both Phobos and Tango became (crucial) extension libraries over a small core. And the bigger that common core becomes, the smaller the

Re: Any chance to call Tango as Extended Standard Library

2009-01-20 Thread Alexander Pánek
Lars Ivar Igesund wrote: Steven Schveighoffer wrote: "Lars Ivar Igesund" wrote Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I can't really understand whether it is required to distribute the source code of a derivative work under the Academic Free License, so I don't really understand that. It is not require

Re: Any chance to call Tango as Extended Standard Library

2009-01-20 Thread Alexander Pánek
Bill Baxter wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Lars Ivar Igesund wrote: I thought the license page (.../wiki/License) was pretty clear ... even if the licenses themselves aren't. Actually this was something I meant to bring up. I couldn't actually find that page when I was looking fo

Re: Any chance to call Tango as Extended Standard Library

2009-01-18 Thread Alexander Pánek
Alexander Pánek wrote: Stewart Gordon wrote: Alexander Pánek wrote: Stewart Gordon wrote: D already has ONE standard library. It's called Phobos. *yawn* Don’t you get tired of this? I do get tired of the misunderstanding of what Tango is that seems to have arisen fro

Re: Any chance to call Tango as Extended Standard Library

2009-01-18 Thread Alexander Pánek
Stewart Gordon wrote: Alexander Pánek wrote: Stewart Gordon wrote: D already has ONE standard library. It's called Phobos. *yawn* Don’t you get tired of this? I do get tired of the misunderstanding of what Tango is that seems to have arisen from the misterminology. It didn’t

Re: Any chance to call Tango as Extended Standard Library

2009-01-18 Thread Alexander Pánek
Stewart Gordon wrote: IUnknown wrote: Really, D's community needs to grow up and create ONE standard library for D2. D2 would be a nice time to break backwards compatibility in the libraries. D already has ONE standard library. It's called Phobos. *yawn* Don’t you get tired of this?

Re: Anomaly on Wiki4D GuiLibraries page

2009-01-17 Thread Alexander Pánek
Stewart Gordon wrote: John Reimer wrote: 2) You don't have enough information to go on to make that change, unless you have dicussed this with Walter. Maybe he doesn't want to recognize the old DWT as "standard" anymore, if it isn't actively developed. Maybe neither library is "standard".

Re: Anomaly on Wiki4D GuiLibraries page

2009-01-16 Thread Alexander Pánek
Stewart Gordon wrote: Really, while Tango DWT may have superseded Phobos DWT as being the DWT that's still actively maintained, Phobos DWT remains the SDGL. That’s a tremendously awesome idea. It’s at least as awesome as to keep the car with two blown tyres and no engine because it’s been dec

Re: Properties

2009-01-07 Thread Alexander Pánek
Ellery Newcomer wrote: BCS wrote: Reply to Vishaal, Properties, such as array.length, should return lvalues to allow: a.length += 8; or other similar statements. I think there is a (long standing) bug report about that one. Maybe if enough people gripe about it it will get fixed! (NOT said

Re: dmd platform support - poll

2008-12-25 Thread Alexander Pánek
Walter Bright wrote: What platforms for dmd would you be most interested in using? 32 & 64bit OS X 64bit Linux

Re: The Next Big Language

2008-11-14 Thread Alexander Pánek
Jarrett Billingsley wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Julio César Carrascal Urquijo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Julio César, ECMAScript 2 ECMAScript 4 I was typing up a snarky comment at the same time you posted this ;) How dare you being snarky!

Re: The Next Big Language

2008-11-14 Thread Alexander Pánek
Julio César Carrascal Urquijo wrote: Steve Yegge's latest article has a ratter nice quote about D: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.html "D's a really beautiful language. By rights it should be the next C++. However, C++ programmers won't have it because it's garbage c