Re: Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

2016-06-06 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 22:07:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 6/6/16 5:41 PM, Joseph Cassman wrote: On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 02:20:52 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: [...] Curious of the progress/plan for RC. From the autodecode thread sounds like RC-string is still in the works. How's th

Re: Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

2016-06-06 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 02:20:52 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Andrei posted this on another thread. I felt it deserved its own thread. It's very important. [...] * The garbage collector eliminates probably 60% of potential users right off. Curious of the progress/plan for RC. From the autodeco

Re: Persistent list

2015-11-16 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 01:49:05 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: [...] I think inout is worth saving, it needs a few tweaks and a good explanation. -Steve Sounds interesting. Might your ideas help to fix the difficulties inout has with composability? That would be excellent. Jo

Re: Persistent list

2015-11-16 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 16 November 2015 at 06:24:05 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: [...] Regardless, I think that it's quite clear that certain idioms simply do not work with physical const, and there's been complaining about that for years. The only real question here is whether those idioms are worth en

Re: Visual C++ Build Tools 2015

2015-10-30 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 30 October 2015 at 11:56:56 UTC, Kagamin wrote: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2015/10/29/visual-studio-2015-update-1-rc-available.aspx Now compiler and libraries can be installed without IDE. Excellent news. Thanks for sharing. Joseph

Re: DMD on WIndows 10

2015-07-31 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 31 July 2015 at 22:02:13 UTC, Paul D Anderson wrote: I'm waiting to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 to avoid the inevitable just-released bugs, but does anyone have any info about D on Windows 10? Has anyone tried it? p.s. Please don't tell me how much better your favorite ope

Re: Naming things

2015-06-22 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 22 June 2015 at 16:06:33 UTC, Kelet wrote: I agree with Vladimir -- There should be a naming convention for identifying whether a function is eager or lazy. Learning a naming convention once and applying it repeatedly is a better process than repeatedly referencing documentation.

Re: std.collection - changing the collection while iterating

2015-06-22 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 22 June 2015 at 13:42:41 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 6/22/15 2:27 AM, Joseph Cassman wrote: On Sunday, 21 June 2015 at 23:02:38 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [...] I was trying to understand how it could work with array slices. For example, I was thinking of code similar

Re: std.collection - changing the collection while iterating

2015-06-21 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 21 June 2015 at 23:02:38 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: While I work on making std.allocator better, here's some food for thought regarding std.collection. Consider a traditional container with reference semantics, Java-style. Regarding changing the collection (e.g. adding/removin

Re: std.experimental.logger formal review round 3

2015-01-23 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 23 January 2015 at 20:24:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/6/15 8:51 AM, Robert burner Schadek wrote: recent updates: * Martins CT log function disabling (thanks Martin) * new thread local indirection Logger between free standing log functions and program global Logger * more do

Re: http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP25 has been preliminarily approved for 2.067

2015-01-16 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 17 January 2015 at 00:14:47 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/16/15 3:55 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 1/16/15 6:25 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/16/2015 3:10 PM, zeljkog wrote: Why is it restricted to @safe? Being a systems programming language, an escape from it may b

Re: http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP25

2014-12-28 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 28 December 2014 at 03:09:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Walter and I have been working on revamping DIP25, which focuses on tightening the screws of ref. This should then simplify DIP69 significantly. Please comment: http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP25 Thanks, Andrei I tried to un

Re: New Github Issues

2014-07-28 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 28 July 2014 at 18:23:06 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote: "Daniel Murphy" wrote in message news:lr6249$18pf$1...@digitalmars.com... Oh FINALLY!!! I've just labelled all the DDMD pull requests. This helps understand where the work is going on. Thanks Joseph

Re: Opportunities for D

2014-07-09 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 9 July 2014 at 20:58:11 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote: On Wednesday, 9 July 2014 at 19:47:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 7/9/2014 3:20 AM, Dicebot wrote: I'd state it differently: "Marketing fuss about goroutines is the killer feature of Go" :) It does not have any fundamental advantag