Re: i want my bounty!

2014-12-15 Thread Hannes Steffenhagen via Digitalmars-d
Eh, possibly if you're used to a language - like english - that's mostly only lowercase letters in the first place. I don't see what your problem with comprehending "GH is what everyone is using for contributions, therefore if you're planning on making a contribution you should probable do it

Re: Why are the nogc crowed labeled as alarmists?!?!

2014-07-17 Thread Hannes Steffenhagen via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 18:28:30 UTC, Ary Borenszweig wrote: On 7/17/14, 3:13 PM, Frustrated wrote: Are those that say the GC is fine and works for 90-95% of apps without issue just ignorant? Or are they arrogant? We probably do webapps and other stuff that is not real-time. A GC there

Re: Why is int implicitly convertible to ulong?

2014-02-21 Thread Hannes Steffenhagen
The specific problem here was when working with std.json. std.json distinguishes between UINTEGER and INTEGER, so I had code like static if(is(T : ulong)) { // must be UINTEGER } else static if(is(T : long)) { // can be either INTEGER or UINTEGER } I've since found out about isSigned

Why is int implicitly convertible to ulong?

2014-02-16 Thread Hannes Steffenhagen
isImplicitlyConvertible!(int,ulong) is true. Maybe this is just me, but I get the impression that this is quite nuts. Why is an implicit conversion from a signed to an unsigned type possible? The other way round would be at least somewhat understandable if there's a static check that the values

Re: Bug report (sorry, couldn't register at bugzilla for some reason)

2014-01-19 Thread Hannes Steffenhagen
Um yeah... I really don't mean to be disrespectful, but I don't think this is the place to discuss terminology.

Bug report (sorry, couldn't register at bugzilla for some reason)

2013-12-25 Thread Hannes Steffenhagen
I'm trying to use the LuaD library right now... unfortunately, I've run into somewhat of a roadblock. This doesn't work (assertion failure in dmd's backend/cgcs.c:351, which has apparently something to do with bitops... there's an assert(0) there and I'm not really sure why). import luad.a

Re: Bug report (sorry, couldn't register at bugzilla for some reason)

2013-12-25 Thread Hannes Steffenhagen
Sorry, I'm not sure how to edit posts, it's 6am and I kinda didn't get any sleep yet, so excuse me if I'm a bit confused right now. The second example was supposed to be state.globals.get!.