On Jul 18, 2012 6:20 AM, FeepingCreature default_357-l...@yahoo.de
wrote:
On 07/18/12 01:05, Kevin Cox wrote:
What about how JavaScript does it. Anonymous functions can still have
a name that can be used from inside of a function to refer to itself.
Sadly, this collides with the return
On Jul 17, 2012 1:00 PM, angel andrey.gel...@gmail.com wrote:
I propose to introduce a reference to the current function, much like
'this' in a class method. Call it 'self' or 'thisFunc', or whatever ...
What might this be good for ?
For implementing recursion in a lambda function.
Writing in
On Jul 17, 2012 6:50 PM, Era Scarecrow rtcv...@yahoo.com wrote:
On Tuesday, 17 July 2012 at 22:13:13 UTC, Eyyub wrote:
On Tuesday, 17 July 2012 at 16:56:17 UTC, angel wrote:
I propose to introduce a reference to the current function, much like
'this' in a class method. Call it 'self' or
On Jul 16, 2012 4:15 AM, Jacob Carlborg d...@me.com wrote:
On 2012-07-16 08:51, Walter Bright wrote:
It is a good idea, but I'd be nervous myself about allowing the compiler
to edit my code :-)
Don't you trust your own compiler :)
The compiler could have --dry-run option to show what
On Jul 14, 2012 9:15 AM, David d...@dav1d.de wrote:
Run-time mixins can be used for incredibly powerful stuff, yet the same
run-time mixins can be used for incredibly dangerous stuff. Just don't
use them if you don't know exactly what you're doing. :-)
I don't see any case where a
On Jul 13, 2012 3:45 PM, Nick Sabalausky
seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com wrote:
Am I correct in my understanding that we still don't have a reliable
tool to translate a D source to C or C++? Can LDC/GDC do anything like
that? (Doesn't LLVM have a C-outputting backend?)
Yes LLVM does. I
On Jul 13, 2012 4:40 PM, OlaOst ola...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm working on a program (using dmd 2.059 under windows) that
automatically reloads the contents of a file if it has changed, by checking
the last modified timestamp on the file every 0.2 seconds, then using the
readText function in
On Jul 7, 2012 8:45 AM, Gary Willoughby d...@kalekold.net wrote:
What was the reason for not including 'std.net.curl' in the Windows
phobos library?
IIRC it is licencing issues, they can't include curl in the distribution
without certain requirements that were deemed to awkward to implement.
On Jun 19, 2012 11:03 PM, BLM768 blm...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there any chance of this code being added to Phobos? I think it would
get a fair bit of use.
+1 I think locating the executable is a common task.
On Jun 17, 2012 6:42 PM, Stephen Jones siwe...@gmail.com wrote:
I recently switched from Eclipse to monoD and found that all my code to
images etc was invalid because getcwd returns the directory that contains
the main entry code in Eclipse, but returns the directory that contains the
executable
On Jun 13, 2012 7:23 AM, Kagamin s...@here.lot wrote:
If we use all caps for abbreviations then the names should be SHA1UUID,
MD5UUID and UUIDVersion?
I believe tr naming scheme is acronyms have the same case. So if an
acronym is first it is all lowercase otherwise all uppercase.
On Jun 7, 2012 9:53 PM, Minas minas_mina1...@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
I agree that the default value for floats/doubles should be zero. It
feels much more natural.
I think the problem here is that people are thinking about some stuff too
much. D is a rather new language that wants to be practical.
On Jun 4, 2012 8:43 PM, Xinok xi...@live.com wrote:
I wonder in that case, is it even worth including in the language? For me
anyways, the whole point of these operators is to use them in expressions.
Otherwise, why not simply write (i+=1)?
For pointers they are useful because they go up in
On Jun 2, 2012 1:54 AM, Jonathan M Davis jmdavisp...@gmx.com wrote:
No. It simply means that all of the letters of an acronym are always the
same
case. So, you'd have
class ASCIIException {}
void funcASCII() {}
int asciiVar;
enum UTFEnum { asciiEnum, utfEnum }
Oh, good solution, I could
On Jun 2, 2012 6:33 AM, John Chapman johnch_a...@hotmail.com wrote:
On Saturday, 2 June 2012 at 10:11:02 UTC, Godlike wrote:
On Saturday, 2 June 2012 at 10:00:07 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
Just add these declarations to the appropriate module:
extern(Windows) {
alias void function(HWND,
On Jun 2, 2012 6:38 AM, bearophile bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote:
Jonathan M Davis:
Personally, I wish that it weren't legal to call a static function with
an
object and that you had to explicitly use the class,
I agree.
Bye,
bearophile
Same here, D 3.0?
On May 24, 2012 6:43 AM, Tobias Pankrath tob...@pankrath.net wrote:
On Thursday, 24 May 2012 at 09:50:33 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 10:34 +0200, Paulo Pinto wrote:
[...]
Every time I need to do something in an language without official
package manager support, I curse
On May 24, 2012 7:03 AM, Jacob Carlborg d...@me.com wrote:
Mac OS X doesn't have one out of the box, App Store doesn't count.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
IIRC there is one that a ton of people use, is it called macports?
On May 24, 2012 7:08 AM, Tobias Pankrath tob...@pankrath.net wrote:
I'm using arch, too. The problem are the people, who don't :-)
I know what you are saying but package managers were beautiful things that
made it stupidly simple to install software. But we are slowly going back
to windoze
On May 24, 2012 6:53 PM, Froglegs lug...@yahoo.com wrote:
Like the design, syntax is way better than D
But half of what makes a language are the compilers/debuggers/tool
I like many ideas of the language but there are some show-stoppers for me.
For example the fact that you have to define
On May 23, 2012 5:48 PM, snow marcel.patzw...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hello, Ive tried to install D under Linux and followed the steps
described on . this page http://dlang.org/dmd-linux.html . I
checked all folders after every step and everything is where it
should be. In the secound step I
On May 22, 2012 12:13 PM, s s...@one.com wrote:
+1 for a GUI lib, which is in sync with DMD releases.
Is there any way to bind Qt without the dreaded moc and friends? Because
that would give you a cross platform solution without too much work.
On May 11, 2012 5:53 PM, Alex Rønne Petersen xtzgzo...@gmail.com wrote:
On 11-05-2012 23:48, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Is it just me, or does GitHub (in its entirety) seem to be down today?
Works For Me (TM) - haven't had problems with GitHub at all today.
Also, this is useful for cases
On May 9, 2012 12:53 PM, Gor Gyolchanyan gor.f.gyolchan...@gmail.com
wrote:
Wouldn't it make more sense for GC to ignore second deallocation?
If this was the case, data, which is know to become garbage would be
deallocated right away.
On the other hand, I might as well use std.c.stdlib.realloc
On May 1, 2012 7:49 PM, Alex Rønne Petersen xtzgzo...@gmail.com wrote:
Also, is there a way to require the root password of the user when going
create the directory in a restricted folder (like /usr) AFTER the
application has started?
No idea, sorry.
Thank you.
--
- Alex
You could
On Apr 27, 2012 7:34 AM, so s...@so.so wrote:
I agree it is ugly. If there is a way out (reason why i asked), we should
just dump it.
I don't like the idea either because it is confusing. The only reason I
can imagine is if there was polymorphism on statics which I see as a fairly
useless
On Apr 16, 2012 5:29 PM, Namespace rswhi...@googlemail.com wrote:
That case I would like to prevent, but at the same time allow
Ivalues. How does that work in D classes?
As far as I know this operates with structs, but shouldn't it be
possible with classes and objects too?
I would recommend
On Apr 15, 2012 4:30 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling
joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net wrote:
... the compiler accepts it. Whether that's because it's acceptably
pure, or because the compiler just doesn't detect this case of impurity, is
another matter. The int k is certainly mutable from outside the
Try using the $HOME environment variable.
On Apr 12, 2012 4:29 PM, SomeDude lovelyd...@mailmetrash.com wrote
So noone thinks this could be a good idea ?
I like it. I usually put a comment in the bottom of my pages but since the
form is implemented in D it would nice to actually display it somewhere.
On Apr 11, 2012 4:14 PM, Nick Sabalausky
seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com wrote:
Kevin Cox kevincox...@gmail.com wrote in message
news:mailman.1599.1334099575.4860.digitalmar...@puremagic.com...
I was wondering why they could not be implied from the code itself.
That question comes up
On Apr 10, 2012 7:08 PM, H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote:
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:10:19AM +0200, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
I'm planning to go over druntime and add nothrow/pure everywhere I
can, but I don't want to disturb anyone else who's currently working
on patches that
On Apr 9, 2012 5:59 AM, Ary Manzana a...@esperanto.org.ar wrote:
In this video you can see what foreach with opApply gets translated to
(at about minute 1):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAhrFQVnsrY
Thanks, that's perfect. I'm definitely going to try out decent.
On Apr 9, 2012 9:19 AM, Manu turkey...@gmail.com wrote:
OMG, DO WANT! :P
Who wrote this? I wonder if they'd be interested in adapting it to
VisualD + MonoDevelop?
On 9 April 2012 12:56, Ary Manzana a...@esperanto.org.ar wrote:
On 4/9/12 7:26 AM, Kevin Cox wrote:
I was wondering about
On Apr 9, 2012 10:29 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu
seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote:
On 4/9/12 9:21 PM, Ary Manzana wrote:
Yes, D definitely needs that. The Eclipse plugin could just use bindings
to the D compiler API with JNI.
Would the JSON compiler output help?
Andrei
It would cover
On Apr 8, 2012 10:59 PM, vmars316 vmars...@live.com wrote:
Greetings,
I would also like to try out QTD.
So far, I have set things up this:
C:\D\dmd2\QT
I made a .batch file for both drcc.exe and duic.exe .
duic.exe gave no feedback.
drcc.exe gave the following feedback:
On Apr 9, 2012 12:09 PM, vmars316 vmars...@live.com wrote:
On Monday, 9 April 2012 at 12:52:47 UTC, Kevin Cox wrote:
I think rcc is the Qt resource compiler. I'm not at my computer at the
moment to check, but if so it will translate xml resource files into D
source.
I think rcc is the Qt
On Mar 26, 2012 5:11 AM, Benjamin Thaut c...@benjamin-thaut.de wrote:
Is this intended behaviour or is this a bug? I assume this happens
because of the mixin template and the public import.
I'm using dmd 2.058.
--
Kind Regards
Benjamin Thaut
I don't think the order of destructors is
I would just like to say that I like having the grammar there. It helps me
see the relations in the syntax. And I thought there were enough syntax
examples.
On Apr 8, 2012 4:54 PM, Jonas H. jo...@lophus.org wrote
Sure but when people click on a link and weird grammar definitions are
the only thing that's on the screen they're likely to think that's not
what I looked for and try other pages.
For sure. I think there should be both.
On Apr 8, 2012 6:24 PM, Tove t...@fransson.se wrote:
I just stumbled upon this:
https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/home
/rant
I remember back in the glorious MC68000 days(24bit addressing)... leaving
8bits for creative optimizations... until 68020 took away all the fun that
is.
So... I
I was wondering about the foreach statement and when you implement
opApply() for a class it is implemented using closures. I was wondering if
this is just how it is expressed or if it is actually syntatic sugar. The
reason I aski is because if you have a return statement inside a foreach it
On Apr 8, 2012 7:49 PM, Timon Gehr timon.g...@gmx.ch wrote:
On 04/09/2012 01:26 AM, Kevin Cox wrote:
I was wondering about the foreach statement and when you implement
opApply() for a class it is implemented using closures. I was wondering
if this is just how it is expressed
On Apr 8, 2012 4:49 PM, vmars316 vmars...@live.com wrote:
Win7:
Greetings,
Ok, I got the command line for dmd2 running (Hello World). :)
Now I would like to install a Visual GUI Builder.
Not knowing any better, think I'll try Entice Designer and DFL.
The most current versions I can find
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Brad Roberts bra...@puremagic.com wrote:
It doesn't take a lot of help to greatly improve both the quality of a
product and the liklihood that it'll survive much longer, but it does take
some.
My 2 cents,
Brad
I agree and understand with what you are saying
On Apr 5, 2012 4:24 PM, Zbigniew Radosz zbig...@o2.pl wrote
How about a (digital) martian? :)
Lol it took me a second to get it. Great one :)
On Apr 5, 2012 5:04 PM, Nick Sabalausky a@a.a wrote
I would suggest though, that it be separated into two main parts:
1. Some sort of central database with a documented, publically-accessible
machine interface, not a human interface. (And for the love of god, not
XML.)
2. A human-usable
Looks like a fairly even spread so far, (27 votes). The higher bracket
is low, but it is also 6-10 years, D hasn't been around much longer
than that .
--
James Miller
I like the spread. Most new users and a gradual decline until we get to 6+
where a group of people are sitting.
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Jesse Phillips
jessekphillip...@gmail.comwrote:
Seems the old timers are less representative now (142 votes).
Nice poll, thanks.
I was factoring out the different number of years in each category. I'm
gonna try to create a bar graph with normalized years.
1
On Mar 25, 2012 7:34 PM, Jonathan M Davis jmdavisp...@gmx.com wrote:
On Monday, March 26, 2012 09:55:00 James Miller wrote:
On 26 March 2012 09:44, Iain Buclaw ibuc...@ubuntu.com wrote:
A spork of druntime, yes.
A spork? I've never heard that before...
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Jacob Carlborg d...@me.com wrote:
On 2012-03-25 15:04, Tyro[17] wrote:
Is there one available for use with D2 on MAC OS X?
Thanks,
Andrew
* QtD - Bindings to Qt. Use the native drawing operations of the operating
system (I think). Available on all
On Mar 18, 2012 3:09 PM, Manu turkey...@gmail.com wrote
int x = 123456;
x = 0xFF; // x is now in range 0..255; now fits in a ubyte
ubyte y = x; // assign silently, cast can safely be implicit
This is related to Go's infinitely sized constants. If an expression
produces a value out of range
On Mar 18, 2012 4:50 PM, Peter Alexander peter.alexander...@gmail.com
wrote:
Neither do I, but it's more work for the compiler, and even if the
compiler does string pooling, it may not look for common suffixes.
It would be more work but it would have memory and cache benefits. If you
stored
On Mar 16, 2012 7:45 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen xtzgzo...@gmail.com wrote
I don't see any reason why c couldn't point to element number 3 of b, and
have its length set to 3...
--
- Alex
And the previous examples were language agnostic. In D and other languages
where the length of a string is
On Mar 16, 2012 2:29 PM, Adam D. Ruppe destructiona...@gmail.com wrote:
Put the string file = blaha in the template argument list,
before the variadic.
voic checkConsistency(string file = __FILE__, int line = __LINE__,
T...)(T t) {
But then you have to write it each time.
On Mar 15, 2012 9:25 PM, ixid nuacco...@gmail.com wrote:
D is a very poor name for a language
I like dpl and post tagged with it would turn up pretty well in google.
But, as dlang is the website I think that is the best. Most blogs and
fourms have a tag feature and you could always just say it
On Mar 12, 2012 7:55 PM, Damian Ziemba s...@dzfl.pl wrote
And yea, I think like others that it should have its own module like
std.terminal/std.console or maybe somekind of spot in std.stdio.
Python has a great lib for this. I can't remember what package it is in
but it has things like isTty()
On Mar 10, 2012 8:10 PM, Stewart Gordon smjg_1...@yahoo.com wrote
I don't know how far we can go short of a doclet system like JavaDoc has.
Nor even how exactly a doclet system would work under a language that
compiles to native code
Stewart.
I hate to say it but I think the ddoc system
On Mar 9, 2012 10:28 AM, H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote:
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 03:27:14PM +0100, Timon Gehr wrote:
On 03/09/2012 01:23 AM, Manu wrote:
[...]
int x; ... (x, float y) = func(); // assign to predeclared
variable(/s)?
(x, , z) = func(); // ignore the second result
On Mar 3, 2012 5:26 AM, David Nadlinger s...@klickverbot.at wrote:
On Saturday, 3 March 2012 at 05:12:31 UTC, Kevin wrote:
AFAIK they are mirrors of each other, would it be best to make one a
redirect (smart, on a per-page level).
This already happened after the discussion at
After learning and using D for a little while I have discovered some (in my
opinion) problems with the slices and associative array built-ins (for now
I will just say slice). The main issue I have is that there is no way to
pass around something that looks like and acts like a slice. This is
On Mar 2, 2012 10:30 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu
seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote
Slices are primitive, concrete components that are close to the metal and
are best for implementing abstractions, not defining them. You can always
build and use abstract interfaces (that may or may not use slices
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Xinok xi...@live.com wrote:
http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/**ranges.htmlhttp://ddili.org/ders/d.en/ranges.html
Thanks for the great link.
And thanks everyone for your help. I can't believe I missed ranges as they
are exactly what I wanted.
Kevin
On Mar 1, 2012 11:11 AM, Manu turkey...@gmail.com wrote:
Windows leads. Amazing!
COFF + 64bit plz! ;)
On 1 March 2012 16:40, Marco Leise marco.le...@gmx.de wrote:
Since everyone loves polls, and the question comes up now and then: What
is your main development platform for D ?
When people say git encourages rewriting history. Don't listen. Once you
have pushed your changes to the world they are immutable. This is because
git uses cryptography internally and changing the history messes everything
up. If you haven't pushed you can change all of your history and it
On Mar 1, 2012 12:15 PM, H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote:
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 10:22:33AM -0500, Kevin Cox wrote:
When people say git encourages rewriting history. Don't listen. Once
you have pushed your changes to the world they are immutable. This is
because git uses
I think you need the -lib in the linker command (too?).
On Feb 29, 2012 12:25 PM, André an...@s-e-a-p.de wrote:
Hi,
I use Mono-D and have a hello world example which compiles fine.
I set the compiler option -lib and receives an error undefined
reference to `_Dmain'.
Following commands are
I think there should also be multiple catches so that you can deal with
different exceptions different ways without trying to upcast them over and
over again.
On Feb 25, 2012 1:30 AM, Daniel Murphy yebbl...@nospamgmail.com wrote:
Jonathan M Davis jmdavisp...@gmx.com wrote in message
I am having the same problem with visual d plugin for monodevelop. When I
compile from the command line the tests run.
A possibly related problem is that some files do not get recompiled when
changed unless I do a rebuild.
On Feb 23, 2012 8:38 PM, Jonathan M Davis jmdavisp...@gmx.com wrote:
On
On Feb 23, 2012 9:41 PM, Jonathan M Davis jmdavisp...@gmx.com wrote
There may very well be further problems due to what the IDE is doing
(such as
not doing a full recompile when you enable -unittest), but the unit tests
won't print anything out on success regardless unless you use print
On Feb 23, 2012 6:50 PM, Vadim vadim.goryu...@gmail.com wrote:
I am looking for the details on D Garbage Collection implementation. I
will much appreciate if someone suggests the answers or give some links to
existing documentation clarifying the following points:
1. Is it Mark-n-Sweep or copy
Although I agree that sources and objects should be sperated there are some
benifits. All tools know where to look for the objects. And is not
dificult to keep out of scm. A great example of this is Haskell. To
compile an app you only need to specify the main file and it finds all the
included
Oh, ok.
First of all the docs appear somewhat misleading. I thought that function
was an example on how to overload it. That could be clarified a little.
Second of all, isn't that inefficient? And if you wanted to be able to
compare to another type you don't control? I think it would make
What if te compiler was allowed to optimist to larger types? The only
issue is if pulled rely on overflowing. That could be fixed by add in a
type with a minimum size specified. This is kind of like C's fast int type.
On Feb 20, 2012 8:20 AM, Regan Heath re...@netmail.co.nz wrote:
On Mon, 20
Vb yes, python kinda. Vb is designed for people who don't want to
program. The idea is to create a quick application that gets two job
done. Python is slightly different. It has a ton of syntax and all the
libraries that it needs to be used in moderately sized project. Python
comes across as
The error message is saying that you are trying to use Foo as a type but
Foo is not a type, it is a template for a type.
On Feb 17, 2012 7:20 AM, kraybourne st...@kraybourne.com wrote:
Hi!
This doesn't work:
import std.stdio;
class Foo(T)
{
T t;
Yes. At least as the compiler would say. It's a little odd but I believe
that is how the D Nam mangling works. I personally just think of
Foo!(Class) as the type.
On Feb 17, 2012 8:05 AM, kraybourne st...@kraybourne.com wrote:
On 2/17/12 1:51 PM, Kevin Cox wrote:
The error message is saying
I wasn't looking to implement meathods in the interface, I was looking to
have a default class that implements the interface that would be created if
you called `new Interface();` I don't think this is possible. and now that
I think about it I think that it is for a good reason.
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