I would like to contribute to the D ecosystem, but as I'm still
in the learning process I do not want to get my sticky fingers
all over someones nice clean code.
I have poured over the documentation and see that there are a few
low-hanging fruit that I would like to pluck. So I have decided
t
H. S. Teoh wrote:
Most Phobos modules suffer from this problem. The first
paragraph often just says something to the effect of "this is
module X (we already know that) and it contains Y, Z, W (we can
see that already)". Very unhelpful. We need descriptions of:
1) What: what this module does -
On Friday, 16 August 2013 at 18:09:04 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 8/16/13 10:56 AM, Dicebot wrote:
On Friday, 16 August 2013 at 17:41:19 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
The converse risk is balkanization. We already have subgroups
that are
effectively dead, for which similar arguments we
BinaryDigit character.
I'm busy working on the HexadecimalInteger, which has related
issues.
1.
https://github.com/andre-artus/dlang.org/blob/LexBinaryDigit/lex.dd
HexDigit HexDigit HexDigit)
\U (from \U etc.)
I have changed this and also specified HexDigitUS as it was left
out.
You can find the changes on my GitHub repo, here:
https://github.com/andre-artus/dlang.org/commit/291c2742b0a779d3aa6b678ceb0273e9aa82d8f9
It has the same issue as
On Friday, 16 August 2013 at 19:12:46 UTC, Mr. Anonymous wrote:
On Friday, 16 August 2013 at 18:12:57 UTC, Andre Artus wrote:
Is there a way to break the pages into a more of a hierarchy,
so that documentation for each module doesn't have to be on
one page? Perhaps a DDOC Section
On Friday, 16 August 2013 at 18:41:57 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
On 8/16/13 10:56 AM, Dicebot wrote:
it. I'd probably favor deleting such obsolete groups (dtl,
dwt, debugger?) but it is a different topic.
Archive, don't delete.
On Friday, 16 August 2013 at 18:25:02 UTC, Andre Artu
On Friday, 16 August 2013 at 19:29:46 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Friday, August 16, 2013 10:41:19 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
The converse risk is balkanization. We already have subgroups
that are
effectively dead, for which similar arguments were made in the
past.
Plus, if one of the mai
On Friday, 16 August 2013 at 17:45:35 UTC, Suliman wrote:
On Friday, 16 August 2013 at 16:07:59 UTC, Andre Artus wrote:
I would like to contribute to the D ecosystem, but as I'm
still in the learning process I do not want to get my sticky
fingers all over someones nice clean code.
I
On Friday, 16 August 2013 at 20:12:20 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Friday, August 16, 2013 21:57:01 Andre Artus wrote:
It is disheartening to think that the people with potential for
the most valuable contributions or insight will be avoiding
discussions regarding the documentation. But I
On Friday, 16 August 2013 at 20:12:20 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Friday, August 16, 2013 21:57:01 Andre Artus wrote:
It is disheartening to think that the people with potential for
the most valuable contributions or insight will be avoiding
discussions regarding the documentation. But I
On Friday, 16 August 2013 at 20:42:28 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:24:55PM +0200, Andre Artus wrote:
On Friday, 16 August 2013 at 17:45:35 UTC, Suliman wrote:
>On Friday, 16 August 2013 at 16:07:59 UTC, Andre Artus wrote:
>>I would like to contribute to the D ecosy
On Friday, 16 August 2013 at 20:03:10 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 08:25:00PM +0200, Andre Artus wrote:
On Friday, 16 August 2013 at 18:09:04 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
[...]
>Things should happen organically, i.e. creating a specialized
>group should follow
The text describing Sections in Documentation Generator page
(http://dlang.org/ddoc.html) needs improvement.
It reads:
Sections
The document comment is a series of Sections. A Section is a
name that is the first non-blank character on a line
immediately followed by a ':'. This name forms th
On Friday, 16 August 2013 at 20:00:35 UTC, Brian Schott wrote:
I've been doing some work with the language grammar
specification. You may find these resources useful:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10233
https://github.com/Hackerpilot/DGrammar/blob/master/D.g4
You have done imp
On Friday, 16 August 2013 at 20:00:35 UTC, Brian Schott wrote:
I've been doing some work with the language grammar
specification. You may find these resources useful:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10233
https://github.com/Hackerpilot/DGrammar/blob/master/D.g4
I have fixed up a
-- SNIP --
I wrote that grammar as part of my work on DCD and DScanner. My
lexer, parser, and AST library need some more testing. Please
download DScanner and run it with either the --ast or
--syntaxCheck options. If you find issues, please report them
on Github.
I forked just under an hour
On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 00:51:57 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 01:03:35AM +0200, Brian Schott wrote:
On Friday, 16 August 2013 at 22:43:13 UTC, Andre Artus wrote:
[...]
>2. Your BinaryInteger and HexadecimalInteger only allow for
>one of
>the following (reduc
On Friday, 16 August 2013 at 19:32:41 UTC, Mr. Anonymous wrote:
On Friday, 16 August 2013 at 19:27:58 UTC, Andre Artus wrote:
On Friday, 16 August 2013 at 19:12:46 UTC, Mr. Anonymous wrote:
On Friday, 16 August 2013 at 18:12:57 UTC, Andre Artus wrote:
Is there a way to break the pages into a
Andre Artus wrote:
2. Your BinaryInteger and HexadecimalInteger only allow for
one of the following (reduced) cases:
0b1__ : works
0b_1_ : fails
0b__1 : fails
Brian Schott wrote:
It's my opinion that the compiler should reject all of these
because I think of the underscore as a sepa
urry about what should/shouldn't be
allowed.
Andre Artus wrote:
I don't think I've seen lexemes defined using (a variant of)
BNF before, most often a form of regular expressions are used.
One could cut down and clarify the page describing the lexical
syntax significantly
[...]
For fun I made a scanner rule that forces BinaryInteger to
conform to a power of 2 grouping of nibbles. I think it loses
it's clarity after 16 bits.
I made the underscore optional between nibbles, but required for
groups of 2 bytes and above.
Some passing cases from my test inputs.
On Friday, 23 August 2013 at 21:41:01 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Sorry for the late reply, it's kinda hard keeping up with this
high-volume mailing list. :)
Tell me about it :)
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 12:08:06AM +0200, Andre Artus wrote:
The text describing Sections in Documentation Gene
I have been racking my brain to find a suitable replacement for
the section description, I would appreciate your critique.
"A section is a block of text that is processed by the document
generator. There are only two unlabeled sections, summary and
description, all other sections are identifie
On Monday, 26 August 2013 at 08:57:36 UTC, Mr. Anonymous wrote:
On Stack Overflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-available-programming-books
I don't have a user with edit privileges, but it would be nice
to add the D books:
Programming in D
ddili.org/ders/d.en/
D T
On Tuesday, 27 August 2013 at 23:52:59 UTC, captaindet wrote:
i admit that i am not very good at reading/understanding
language definition syntax. but yet i think the given enum
specs ( http://dlang.org/enum.html ) are not quite in order.
they seem to imply that both
enum ;
enum WhatAmI ;
Y
What would be the correct forum to discuss a possible correction
to the D Language specification?
I started a thread on the Learn forum asking a question regarding
'import', it soon became apparent to me that there may be an
error in the specification. What is the correct forum in which to
di
On Saturday, 3 August 2013 at 10:31:47 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
On Saturday, 3 August 2013 at 10:26:53 UTC, Andre Artus wrote:
What would be the correct forum to discuss a possible
correction to the D Language specification?
Do you want to discuss it, or just report it?
If it looks like
On Friday, 11 May 2012 at 23:51:47 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
On Friday, 11 May 2012 at 21:53:06 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
I know that haskell has such a function, and there were a
number of complaints previously that we _didn't_ have an any
function which does exactly what std.algorithm.any now do
On Saturday, 12 May 2012 at 03:42:10 UTC, Ary Manzana wrote:
On 5/12/12 3:40 AM, Mehrdad wrote:
On Friday, 11 May 2012 at 20:20:36 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
That's definitely an example of something that depends on your
background. std.algorithm.any does _exactly_ what it would do
in a
fun
On Thursday, 1 August 2013 at 22:45:10 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Walter Bright:
But consider that optimizers are built to optimize typical
code patterns. Component programming is fairly non-existent in
C and C++, and is new in D. Hence, optimizers are not set up
to deal with those patterns (yet)
On Saturday, 3 August 2013 at 12:22:48 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
On Saturday, 3 August 2013 at 11:22:42 UTC, Andre Artus wrote:
I'm not sure that I am explaining this properly as it seems
that at least 2 different people were under the impression I
was making a point quite different fro
On Saturday, 3 August 2013 at 13:46:38 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
On Saturday, 3 August 2013 at 13:35:56 UTC, Andre Artus wrote:
import std.stdio;
import std.algorithm;
void main()
{
auto values = [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ];
writeln(values
.map!(a => a * 10)
.map!(a => a / 3)
.fil
On Saturday, 3 August 2013 at 18:56:47 UTC, JS wrote:
On Saturday, 3 August 2013 at 17:45:11 UTC, w0rp wrote:
I can see you saving a little bit of typing with this, but it's
not worth it.
Um, it can actually save a lot of type and errors.
having two places to change is very error prone.
if
So, depending on how you define "not worth it", which I take
"I'm too lazy to implement it", you could be correct.
YaAA:
If the implementation is so obviously trivial why don't you
implement a proof of concept? The compiler is open source
after all.
JS:
because I have better things to do a
Bearophile:
If not already present this array should go in std.datetime or
core.time:
static immutable string[] monthNames = [
"January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June",
"July", "August", "September", "October", "November",
"December"
];
It should probab
On Sunday, 4 August 2013 at 10:14:50 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Saturday, 3 August 2013 at 18:56:47 UTC, JS wrote:
Um, it can actually save a lot of type and errors.
having two places to change is very error prone.
if (cond) { }
switch(cond)
What is error-prone is evaluation of a complex conditi
On Sunday, 4 August 2013 at 15:57:32 UTC, Andre Artus wrote:
On Sunday, 4 August 2013 at 10:14:50 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Saturday, 3 August 2013 at 18:56:47 UTC, JS wrote:
Um, it can actually save a lot of type and errors.
having two places to change is very error prone.
if (cond) { }
switch
Andre Artus:
int number;
string message;
switch (number)
{
default: // valid: ends with 'throw'
throw new Exception("unknown number");
case 3:
message ~= "three "; break;
case 4:
message ~= &qu
On Monday, 5 August 2013 at 04:07:55 UTC, Andre Artus wrote:
Andre Artus:
int number;
string message;
switch (number)
{
default: // valid: ends with 'throw'
throw new Exception("unknown number");
case 3:
message ~= "three
On Sunday, 4 August 2013 at 22:26:19 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
On 08/04/2013 11:55 PM, bearophile wrote:
Timon Gehr:
Formal proofs require a formalization of language semantics.
It's not
just a matter of finding someone to carry out the proof.
(Anyone can
learn online how to do this.)
I think
On Monday, 5 August 2013 at 06:28:12 UTC, luminousone wrote:
perhaps a more generic solution should be looked at, extend
contracts to work with all scope blocks.
switch(somenumber)
in {
... before stuff ...
}
out {
after stuff ...
}
body {
case 1:
in {
... etc
On Monday, 5 August 2013 at 11:32:14 UTC, QAston wrote:
On Monday, 5 August 2013 at 09:37:11 UTC, dennis luehring wrote:
this type of sub-branching "de-looping" is slow (if
performance is relevant) and just not foreach-able, and so not
functional-style programming - its called "for loop index
Andre Artus:
It may not always be the case, but in my experience this often
leads to write-only code.
I'm pretty new to D, so I'm not quite up to speed with the
metaprogramming abilities, but I'm under the impression that
this is what mixin's are for.
MattCoder:
Well
On Monday, 5 August 2013 at 09:37:11 UTC, dennis luehring wrote:
Am 05.08.2013 08:28, schrieb luminousone:
or perhaps
for( int i = 0 ; i < 10 ; i ++ )
in {
assert( i == 0 );
}
out {
assert( i == 9 );
}
body {
... stuff ...
}
that is just evil code
if you got something todo befo
--snip--
Bosak:
class Resource { //can be any resource from files to streams to
anything
Resource[] used;
void opDispose() {
writeln("Resource disposed!");
You should avoid doing IO in a destructor/finaliser. Writing to
STDOUT can fail which may lead to resource leaks (if
On Monday, 5 August 2013 at 19:58:21 UTC, ron wrote:
On Monday, 5 August 2013 at 08:46:54 UTC, Andre Artus wrote:
On Monday, 5 August 2013 at 06:28:12 UTC, luminousone wrote:
perhaps a more generic solution should be looked at, extend
contracts to work with all scope blocks.
switch
Borislav Kosharov wrote:
Speaking of contracts, and reading the docs I see:
"Pre and Post Contracts
The pre contracts specify the preconditions before a statement
is executed. The most typical use of this would be in
validating the parameters to a function. The post contracts
validate the res
As Andrei points out in his book ("The D Programming
Language") contracts are not used to validate/scrub user (or
any external) input as they can be compiled out of the
executable.
Contracts are there to check sanity at compile time, or at the
very least during testing.
The contract is (or
I decided to see whether dmd would compile with VS2013 and Clang.
So far the only issue seems to be that C++11 RTL already defines
'strtold'.
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdlib/strtold/
Compiling results in the following error:
Error 1 error C2556: 'longdouble strtold(const char *,cha
I see there is quite a lot of code commented out with '#if 0',
most of which looks like testing code. Unit tests in D is one of
the 'killer' features. THE killer D feature for me is 'scope'.
I bring this up because I see
extern "C" longdouble strtold(const char *p,char **endp);
//strtold.c(583
I forgot about the joys of C++, e.g. the code, build, make
coffee, read forum posts, run, cycle.
I could refactor the code to rename dmd/strtold, but that may
not go down well (play nice with others).
I did a rename refactor on strtold (changed it to
strtolongdouble) for S&G and everything seems to work just fine
for VC++ 2013.
On Saturday, 3 August 2013 at 19:22:53 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 8/3/2013 12:00 PM, JS wrote:
What I really don't get it is why people think that just
because they won't use
such a feature then it must be useless to everyone else.
You could provide supporting evidence by examining every us
I would vote for marking it as deprecated, and clearly
indicating it as such in the docs.
On Tuesday, 6 August 2013 at 07:44:46 UTC, QAston wrote:
I was under the impression that D has nested functions, unless
by inner function you mean something else.
Yeah, pardon my terminology.
Not an issue, they normally mean the same thing. I believe JS's
use case can be covered easily and c
On Tuesday, 6 August 2013 at 16:18:54 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Andre Artus:
I decided to see whether dmd would compile with VS2013 and
Clang. So far the only issue seems to be that C++11 RTL
already defines 'strtold'.
I suggest to put most of those small bug reports in Bugzilla
(or
On Tuesday, 6 August 2013 at 22:38:58 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Andre Artus:
If there is agreement with the new name, or if a better
alternative is offered then I will be more than happy to make
a comprehensive change.
I didn't talk about the strtosomething name, I was referring to
every
On Wednesday, 7 August 2013 at 05:31:24 UTC, Alan wrote:
Hello! This may seem like a simple question, maybe an
embarassing question but how would I fetch the absolute path to
the directory where my executable is located? My wording is
known to be confusing so I will give an example:
cd ~/pr
On Wednesday, 7 August 2013 at 06:10:35 UTC, Alan wrote:
On Wednesday, 7 August 2013 at 06:08:44 UTC, Andre Artus wrote:
On Wednesday, 7 August 2013 at 05:31:24 UTC, Alan wrote:
Hello! This may seem like a simple question, maybe an
embarassing question but how would I fetch the absolute path
On Wednesday, 7 August 2013 at 06:22:25 UTC, evilrat wrote:
On Wednesday, 7 August 2013 at 06:18:26 UTC, Alan wrote:
Believe me I have tried all sorts of combonations of this but
it's not guarunteed accuracy in certain situations, I thought
there would be a solution in phobos library I was miss
On Wednesday, 7 August 2013 at 08:18:26 UTC, David Nadlinger
wrote:
On Tuesday, 6 August 2013 at 22:58:21 UTC, Andre Artus wrote:
Okay. I already changed those in my copy.
Just out of interest: what would be an acceptable name to
change 'strtold' to?
strtold is a C standard librar
On Wednesday, 7 August 2013 at 08:18:43 UTC, SteveGuo wrote:
what? O_o
let me explain, abstract class requires its successors to
implement all methods, but may have fields.
class successors *always* do something, either their methods
has derived behavior or overridden ones. so does interface, i
On Wednesday, 7 August 2013 at 18:37:22 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
On Tuesday, 6 August 2013 at 22:23:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
I think it should be fair to require the new compiler with the
new stdlib. They are released in unison.
Andrei
I agree, but there is at least potential ben
On Wednesday, 7 August 2013 at 19:10:11 UTC, Borislav Kosharov
wrote:
Something strange happens when I do this:
unittest {
import std.array, std.string;
string s = "test";
//assert(s.toUpper.split("").join("-") == "T-E-S-T");
//"Memory allocation failed"
//[Finished in 26.5s]
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