Re: Advocacy (Was: Who here actually uses D?)

2011-01-02 Thread Mike James
"spir" wrote in message news:mailman.359.1293969777.4748.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... On Sun, 2 Jan 2011 10:19:48 +0100 Gour wrote: > Caligo> So why is D being advertised as a systems programming > Caligo> language? By saying Linus would not find D appealing you are > Caligo> basically sayin

Visula D fails to build after Windows updates

2012-09-26 Thread Mike James
Hi, After a recent Windows update cycle the Visual D projects now fail to build - it can't find the D source files - the output from compiler is below. === OPTLINK (R) for Win32 Release 8.00.12 Copyright (C) Dig

Visual D fails to build after Windows updates

2012-09-26 Thread Mike James
Hi, After a recent Windows update cycle the Visual D projects now fail to build - it can't find the D source files - the output from compiler is below. === OPTLINK (R) for Win32 Release 8.00.12 Copyright (C) Digita

Re: Visual D fails to build after Windows updates

2012-09-26 Thread Mike James
"Rainer Schuetze" wrote in message news:k3vfh2$1g0$1...@digitalmars.com... On 26.09.2012 16:57, Mike James wrote: > Hi, > > After a recent Windows update cycle the Visual D projects now fail to > build - it can't find the D source files - the outp

Re: D1 to be discontinued on December 31, 2012

2011-12-13 Thread Mike James
"Jacob Carlborg" wrote in message news:jc785g$1hpa$2...@digitalmars.com... On 2011-12-13 07:26, Jesse Phillips wrote: On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:57:02 +, Jesse Phillips wrote: I haven't used D1 for a long time so I can't claim a bad choice here. Actually I think I can state an opinion here.

Re: Exceptional coding style

2013-01-18 Thread Mike James
Maybe I should invent a programming language in which color has semantic value. And fonts. :-P Sort of :-) http://www.colorforth.com/primer.htm -=mike=-

Re: float equality

2011-02-22 Thread Mike James
"Andrei Alexandrescu" wrote in message news:ijuub9$tv5$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 2/21/11 4:48 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: >> On Monday 21 February 2011 01:55:28 Walter Bright wrote: >>> Kevin Bealer wrote: 1. To solve the basic problem the original poster was asking -- if you are wor

Re: Status report, milestones, quality improvements?

2011-03-16 Thread Mike James
"Regan Heath" wrote in message news:op.vsfy88k954x...@puck.auriga.bhead.co.uk... On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 01:13:33 -, jasonw wrote: One problem is the large amount of obsolete data ( http://www.dsource.org/projects/dmdfe ) Dsource is The place for D projects. The problem with dsource is if

Re: Example within documentations of D seriously need some improvement.

2011-05-27 Thread Mike James
"Matthew Ong" wrote in message news:iro4gg$1763$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 5/27/2011 7:27 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: >> On 2011-05-27 09:35, Matthew Ong wrote: >> The documentation on the DigitalMars site is more of a language >> reference than a tutorial. It's probably not the best place to sta

Re: IDE

2011-06-03 Thread Mike James
"Monkol" wrote in message news:op.vwhjkml5cqe...@pc-2010.dnepr.net.ua... is any IDE specially for D in process development now? If your using Windows then Visual D is very good... -=mike=-

Re: Vote for the new std.hash (oops, std.digest)

2012-08-26 Thread Mike James
"Manu" wrote in message news:mailman.1410.1345976415.31962.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... Looks good, though one thing annoys me as always throughout the D docs, liberal use of auto can make them very difficult to understand. auto result = hash.finish();From the examples where this appears, I

gtkD program fails to run

2011-06-05 Thread Mike James
When I run the "hello world" program in the gtkD demos I get the following error message... The procedure entry point gdk_app_launch_context_get_type could not be located in the dynamic link library libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll Does anybody know what I need to do to rectify the problem? I am using t

Re: Making D newsgroup readonly (not digitalmars.D)

2011-06-06 Thread Mike James
"Robert Clipsham" wrote in message news:isglqi$2j26$3...@digitalmars.com... Hi all, People continue to post to D rather than digitalmars.D or digitalmars.D.learn when looking for support/general D related chatter - shouldn't that newsgroup be marked as readonly by now? -- Robert http://octa

Re: gtkD program fails to run

2011-06-06 Thread Mike James
"Mike Wey" wrote in message news:isjg1b$2qel$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 06/05/2011 11:37 PM, Mike James wrote: >> When I run the "hello world" program in the gtkD demos I get the >> following >> error message... >> >> The procedure ent

Re: Historical moment: D2 is now D

2011-06-10 Thread Mike James
"Andrei Alexandrescu" wrote in message news:istj83$1rsa$1...@digitalmars.com... >I think we all agree that it is appropriate to characterize D2 to mean "The >D Programming Language". > > From here on, we have changed the website > http://d-programming-language.org to reflect that reality. D sim

Re: Is it too late to change the name of this language?

2011-06-17 Thread Mike James
"Benjamin Lindley" wrote in message news:itgemj$2p61$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 6/17/2011 3:33 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: >> The reason D is not as "searchable" as C or C++ is because D is a >> small community. It has absolutely nothing to do with the name. > > But if D had a name like Brainfuc

Re: Is it too late to change the name of this language?

2011-06-20 Thread Mike James
"Benjamin Lindley" wrote in message news:itgcgc$2lnk$1...@digitalmars.com... I'm new to this language, and so far, I really like it. But that name is unsearchable. Don't you guys think that hinders the language from catching on? Yes, you can search for D Programming Language, but that doesn

GitHub or dsource?

2011-07-07 Thread Mike James
What's the latest thinking on the best repository for open-source D code... GitHub or dsource? -=mike=-

Re: D Programming Language Specification ebook

2011-07-17 Thread Mike James
"Walter Bright" wrote in message news:iur7pc$1aks$1...@digitalmars.com... >I think it would be a good move to make a kindle ebook out of the >specification on the web site. Not only will it be convenient for those who >wish to peruse the spec using a kindle, it will be helpful for marketing >e

Re: List of issues PVS-Studio statically analyzes for

2011-07-23 Thread Mike James
"Walter Bright" wrote in message news:j0da2r$1cd6$1...@digitalmars.com... >I always have a side interest in program static analysis. This one is for >C, is expensive (!), and kindly provided a list of what it looks for: > > http://www.viva64.com/en/d/ > > Some of these might be useful to add int

Re: cleaning up dsource

2011-09-12 Thread Mike James
"Nick Sabalausky" wrote in message news:j4llsb$hvq$1...@digitalmars.com... > "maarten van damme" wrote in message > news:mailman.2825.1315840171.14074.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... >> well that's too bad >> an improved dsource would be a great step forward. D is already >> little-known >> (re

Re: [OT] Schools and sheeple

2011-09-17 Thread Mike James
"David Nadlinger" wrote in message news:j51nfi$2rjc$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 9/17/11 10:51 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> I almost wish it were. Then I could just say, "No, it's like this..." >> Problem solved. Or better yet, "Go make me a sandwich." Better problem >> solved :) > > Have you tr

Another solution to the parallelism problem...

2011-09-24 Thread Mike James
ParaSail... http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/61/Introduction%20to%20ParaSail%20--%20Parallel%20Specification%20and%20Implementation%20Language%20Presentation

Re: Price drop for TDPL on Amazon to $41.10

2010-06-17 Thread Mike James
"filgood" wrote in message news:hv4sb4$1d6...@digitalmars.com... > Although the price is very good on Amazon, one needs to wait till > August to get a copy of the book. > > I've followed the advice from some other people on the NG, > cancelled my amazon order and went to Informit ($49.99 + $9 to

Re: Where will D be in 2015 in the programming language ecosphere?

2010-06-19 Thread Mike James
I detect a hint of bias ;-) "Walter Bright" wrote in message news:hviuvj$147...@digitalmars.com... > Justin Johansson wrote: >> Me thinks this both a polite question and a question due of realistic >> answers. >> >> How doth thou respond? > > It will be the dominant programming language of choi

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-21 Thread Mike James
Got my "collectors item" delivered today from Amazon UK. Looks good. I like the bonus of being able to download a PDF version of TDPL. Thanks for all the hard work Andrei. -=mike=- "Andrei Alexandrescu" wrote in message news:hu3hq6$2f0...@digitalmars.com... > Due to a pretty odd mistake at t

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-21 Thread Mike James
I wondered that too - looking at the footer thats added to the PDF file it doesn't mention that it timeouts after 45 days. I guess only Andrei can tell us for sure ;-) -=mike=- "Alix Pexton" wrote in message news:hvoep9$2ld...@digitalmars.com... > On 21/06/2010 20:23

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-22 Thread Mike James
"Adrian Matoga" wrote in message news:hvorrg$j3...@digitalmars.com... Alix Pexton pisze: On 21/06/2010 20:23, Mike James wrote: Got my "collectors item" delivered today from Amazon UK. Looks good. I like the bonus of being able to download a PDF version of TDPL. Wh

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-22 Thread Mike James
"Jacob Carlborg" wrote in message news:hvr503$287...@digitalmars.com... > On 2010-06-22 14:51, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> On 06/22/2010 07:45 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: >>> On 2010-06-21 21:23, Mike James wrote: >>>> Got my "collectors item&q

Re: Is it time for D1 to die of natural causes?

2010-06-23 Thread Mike James
"dsimcha" wrote in message news:hvthsj$253...@digitalmars.com... > == Quote from Nick Sabalausky (a...@a.a)'s article >> "Justin Johansson" wrote in message >> news:hvt27i$hd...@digitalmars.com... >> > Now that Andrei's much anticipated publication of TDPL is out, is it >> > time >> > that D1 s

GUI Library for D2+Phobos

2010-06-23 Thread Mike James
What is the recommended GUI library for D2+ Phobos for Windows/Linux? Looking at the Wiki4D GUI page shows a number of them but none appear to be fully released. -=mike=-

The status of D2

2010-06-24 Thread Mike James
Now that TDPL has been published and is now out in the wild what is the status of D2. Have all the features added been settled and now D2 is in the debug phase? Are all future releases now of D2 just going to be bug fixes? Is it worthwhile to start a largish project in D2? The website makes out D

Re: @property

2010-06-26 Thread Mike James
"Pelle" wrote in message news:i00ejm$2ki...@digitalmars.com... > As heard around these parts, a lot of people want property-style function > calls to require the function to be declared with @property, like this: > > @property foo(); //getter > @property foo(int); //setter > > foo; //getter > fo

dsource down?

2010-07-21 Thread Mike James
Is the dsource site down for maintenance? -=mike=-

Re: Some questions

2010-07-24 Thread Mike James
"Ezneh" wrote in message news:i2f8c5$2cc...@digitalmars.com... > Hi everyone, I have some questions about D and phobos library. > > Well first of all, what about the issue when compiling a D source in a > .dll ? Is it ok or there are still some problems ? > > > Secondly, I will have to communica

Re: FFT Lib?

2010-07-27 Thread Mike James
"dsimcha" wrote in message news:i2na5q$2kg...@digitalmars.com... > I'm going to need an FFT library to perform some convolutions at some > point > soon. Two absolute, non-negotiable requirements are that it be written in > pure D and that it be Boost or compatibly (i.e. zlib or public domain) >

Re: Why don't other programming languages have ranges?

2010-07-31 Thread Mike James
"Walter Bright" wrote in message news:i31qr6$4m...@digitalmars.com... > BCS wrote: >> Every engineering discipline I have any experience with gets a heck of a >> lot closer to producing formal proofs of correctness than programing. > > Mechanical engineering designs also tend to be a lot simpler

Re: FFT Lib?

2010-08-02 Thread Mike James
"dsimcha" wrote in message news:i2umov$2es...@digitalmars.com... == Quote from Fawzi Mohamed (fa...@gmx.ch)'s article On 29-lug-10, at 15:31, dsimcha wrote: > == Quote from Fawzi Mohamed (fa...@gmx.ch)'s article >> otherwise, as I already said http://www.netlib.org/fftpack/fft.c is >> public do

Re: The singleton design pattern in D, C++ and Java

2010-08-05 Thread Mike James
"Andrei Alexandrescu" wrote in message news:i39d0s$259...@digitalmars.com... Bruno Medeiros wrote: On 16/07/2010 18:18, Ali Çehreli wrote: Justin Johansson wrote: Which language out of C++, D and Java does this classical "GoF" (gang-of-four***) design pattern best? Are we still talking sing

Re: Andrei's Google Talk

2010-08-09 Thread Mike James
"Justin Spahr-Summers" wrote in message news:mpg.26c91a1af538b882989...@news.digitalmars.com... > On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 01:19:03 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> >> "Jesse Phillips" wrote in message >> news:i3hr7p$1s...@digitalmars.com... >> > Steven Schveighoffer Wrote: >> > >> >> I wouldn't mind

Integer Square Root

2010-08-12 Thread Mike James
Would it be more useful to have a true integer square root rather than overloading the real square root? Something like: T intsqrt(T)(T i) { T bitMask = 1; T result = 0; bitMask <<= T.sizeof * 4 - 1; while (bitMask) { result |= bitMask; if ((result * result) > i) {

Re: TDPL ebook

2010-08-21 Thread Mike James
"Yao G." wrote in message news:op.vhr2o5blxeu...@miroslava.gateway.2wire.net... > On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 02:32:33 -0500, Norbert Nemec > wrote: > >> I really appreciated the way Peter Langtangen handled this for his book >> "Python Scripting for Computational Science": There is an encrypted PDF

Re: splitting class

2010-09-18 Thread Mike James
"Vince" wrote in message news:i739cj$kp...@digitalmars.com... > Hi, > > I wanted to know if in D it would be possible to split class > implementation as in .NET wit the partial keyword ? > This feature is interesting when using ui designer because it can > separate your code logic from uninterest

Re: D vs Go in real life

2013-11-07 Thread Mike James
Mmmm - that reminds me... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKHFZBUTA4k -=mike=- "Russel Winder" wrote in message news:mailman.230.1383757333.9546.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 17:39 +0100, Bienlein wrote: […] 1976? Man, you are a teenager then ;-) The year I went ape

Re: Gtkd-2

2013-11-13 Thread Mike James
"Steve Teale" wrote in message news:sbthddptgdozwiivi...@forum.dlang.org... I'd like to publicly thank and commend Mike Wey for his hard work and perseverance on Gtkd. It is now fully up-to-date with GTK3, and with it and D, writing GUI programs has rarely if ever been easier. If you have n

Re: Gtkd-2

2013-11-14 Thread Mike James
"Mike Wey" wrote in message news:l60quj$1ace$1...@digitalmars.com... On 11/13/2013 09:51 AM, Mike James wrote: "Steve Teale" wrote in message news:sbthddptgdozwiivi...@forum.dlang.org... I'd like to publicly thank and commend Mike Wey for his hard work and perseve

Re: 1 matches bool, 2 matches long

2013-04-29 Thread Mike James
gdc: bool x = false; x++; main.d:50: Error: operation not allowed on bool 'x' why not? is just an integer after all. another special case? If you are going to create a boolean then use it as a boolean - it's not an integer any more. Don't mix and match - there's nothing worse than trying to

Re: Ideal D GUI Toolkit

2013-05-21 Thread Mike James
"eles" wrote in message news:ksirfxsiejlweyhom...@forum.dlang.org... On Tuesday, 21 May 2013 at 06:41:24 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2013-05-20 07:25, Tyler Jameson Little wrote: Here we go again, yet another massive thread about GUI toolkits :) Anyway, the thread is already started, I thin

Re: about "with statement"

2013-06-09 Thread mike james
On Sunday, 9 June 2013 at 10:22:22 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Sunday, June 09, 2013 12:11:23 khurshid wrote: D language have like Pascal/Delphi "with statement", which very useful for writing readable code. http://dlang.org/statement.html#WithStatement Maybe I'm wrong, but, I never saw

Re: about "with statement"

2013-06-09 Thread mike james
On Sunday, 9 June 2013 at 10:22:22 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Sunday, June 09, 2013 12:11:23 khurshid wrote: D language have like Pascal/Delphi "with statement", which very useful for writing readable code. http://dlang.org/statement.html#WithStatement Maybe I'm wrong, but, I never saw

Re: Current version of D.

2013-07-06 Thread mike james
The current release is 2.063.2, but it's the first time that we've actually released point releases like that, so there are likely to be places saying 2.063 instead of 2.063.2. Maybe it's time to make the odd-numbered releases the work in progress releases and the even-numbered releases the o

Re: Current version of D.

2013-07-06 Thread mike james
On Saturday, 6 July 2013 at 13:26:38 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Saturday, 6 July 2013 at 13:24:06 UTC, mike james wrote: Maybe it's time to make the odd-numbered releases the work in progress releases and the even-numbered releases the official releases? What is the point? All release

Searching for D using Goolgle

2013-07-09 Thread Mike James
Hmmm. Every time I search for something using the search string "dlang", Google asks me did I mean "golang". Are Google getting worried about the success of D? -=mike=-

Re: The interaction of encapsulation and properties in D

2013-07-11 Thread Mike James
On Thursday, 11 July 2013 at 07:50:38 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Thursday, July 11, 2013 09:37:56 Jacob Carlborg wrote: [snip] Also, if we could make it so that something like @property int value; +1 It would be a great timesaver and give a reason for @property to exist :-) -=mike

Re: GUI libraries

2013-11-27 Thread Mike James
On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 at 17:07:07 UTC, DLang Beginner wrote: Hello. I want to make GUI applications with D, but I don't know which are updated and ready to use, which are good and etc. Can you help me with choosing the right one, guys? I tried to code in C++, but it was too much har

Re: GUI libraries

2013-12-11 Thread Mike James
On Wednesday, 11 December 2013 at 20:25:43 UTC, Temtaime wrote: GTK is too ugly. css is good for prettifying it :-) -=mike=-

Re: GuitarHero/RockBand fans... side project anyone?

2013-12-18 Thread Mike James
"Jerry" wrote in message news:87r49bzawu@optonline.net... Manu writes: On 13 December 2013 19:31, John Colvin wrote: I've experienced the same slowing effect I mentioned before in this context too. Have you ever trying playing with a delay AND an uncomfortably high latency? Since yo

Re: Should we deprecate comma?

2014-03-23 Thread Mike James
On Sunday, 23 March 2014 at 20:56:45 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Discuss: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/3399 Andrei Yep. In the interests of clarity, kill the comma...

Re: Case Range Statement ..

2009-07-07 Thread Mike James
Tim Matthews Wrote: > The case range statement is currently this > > case FirstExp : .. case LastExp : > > Would it be ambiguous to the compiler if it was > > case FirstExp .. case LastExp : > > or even > > case FirstExp .. LastExp : > > > Considering that we can correctly identify a slice

Re: Case Range Statement ..

2009-07-07 Thread Mike James
Derek Parnell Wrote: > On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:35:56 -0400, Mike James wrote: > > > > > Or you introduce a new keyword :-) > > Ooooh you said the 'k' word, naughty boy. > > -- > Derek Parnell > Melbourne, Australia > skype: derek

Re: Semicolons: mostly unnecessary?

2009-10-22 Thread Mike James
I say we should get rid of vowels - it worked for the ancient egyptians :-) > Next thing you know someone will propose eliminating braces and just > using whitespace to denote blocks. It's utter madness. Or get rid of all the visible chars and use Whitespace... http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespac

Re: opPow, opDollar

2009-11-07 Thread Mike James
> the more mathematically-oriented languages use ^ And BASIC ;-) -=mike=-

DWT failed to build

2009-03-10 Thread Mike James
When I try to build the latest version of DWT (downloaded using hg) I get the following errors during the build using dsss: dwt\dwthelper\InflaterInputStream.d(34): function tango.io.device.Conduit.Conduit.load (uint) does not match parameter types (InputStreamWrapper,void[]) dwt\dwthelper\Infl

Re: DWT failed to build

2009-03-10 Thread Mike James
Cheers - I guess I'll wait until things settle down... -=mike=-

State of Play

2009-03-26 Thread Mike James
What is the state of play with D1.0 vs. D2.0? Is D1.0 a dead-end and D2.0 should be used for future projects? Is D2.0 stable enough for use at the present? Is Tango for D2.0 at a level of D1.0 and can be used now? Is DWT ready for D2.0 now? Regards, mike.

Re: Switch - Full Circle

2009-05-19 Thread Mike James
http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=81519

Re: Switch

2009-05-19 Thread Mike James
Georg Wrede Wrote: > bearophile wrote: > > > > void classify(char c) { > > write("You passed "); > > switch (c) { > >case '#': > > writeln("a hash sign."); > > break; > >case '0' ..> '9': > > writeln("a digit."); > > break; > >

Re: Any IDEs or editors that are compatible with D 2.0?

2009-05-27 Thread Mike James
Matt Nawrocki Wrote: > Hi... are there any IDEs or editors out there that support DMD 2.0 yet? I am > having a hard time finding a good one. Thanks! > > > Matt Have at look at Code::Blocks - it works well on Windows and Linux and has support for D1.0 - so I guess that should cover most of D2.

Re: What's C's biggest mistake?

2009-12-30 Thread Mike James
Walter Bright Wrote: > http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ai9uc/whats_cs_biggest_mistake/ I write a lot of embedded C for microcontrollers. It would be great to have an easy means of accessing bytes in an int or short without having to resort to messy unions. Maybe make it a bit more

Re: Does functional programming work?

2010-01-01 Thread Mike James
Walter Bright Wrote: > Nick Sabalausky wrote: > > "Walter Bright" wrote in message > > news:hhgvqk$8c...@digitalmars.com... > >> An interesting counterpoint to the usual FP hype: > >> > >> http://prog21.dadgum.com/55.html > > > > Didn't read the original article, but the one being linked to is

Re: Does functional programming work?

2010-01-04 Thread Mike James
Walter Bright Wrote: > grauzone wrote: > > Walter Bright wrote: > >> retard wrote: > >>> Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:19:25 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: > When I then picked up K+R C, I never wrote another line of Pascal. > It so > soured me on Pascal that I never got on the later bandwagons

Re: Does functional programming work?

2010-01-04 Thread Mike James
Ary Borenszweig Wrote: > retard wrote: > > Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:19:25 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: > > > >> Nick Sabalausky wrote: > >>> "Walter Bright" wrote in message > >>> news:hhgvqk$8c...@digitalmars.com... > An interesting counterpoint to the usual FP hype: > > http://prog21.

D Website not loading D1 page

2010-02-10 Thread Mike James
I've noticed that when you click on the D1 page selection it loads the D2 page. I think it need fixing. Or is it a global conspiracy to remove interest of D1 in favour of D2. I think we should be told. Oh, the humanity... :-) -=mike=-

Re: D Website not loading D1 page

2010-02-10 Thread Mike James
Michel Fortin Wrote: > On 2010-02-10 05:02:10 -0500, Walter Bright said: > > > Mike James wrote: > >> I've noticed that when you click on the D1 page selection it loads > >> the D2 page. I think it need fixing. Or is it a global conspiracy to > >> re

Re: foreach_reverse is better than ever

2010-02-14 Thread Mike James
Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > Gone, that is. Walter agreed to remove it. > > To achieve the functionality of > > foreach_reverse (r) { ... } > > use > > foreach (retro(r)) { ... } > > using retro in std.range. > > > Andrei I think Reverse would have been a better title. Retro sounds like yo

Re: foreach_reverse is better than ever

2010-02-14 Thread Mike James
Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > Leandro Lucarella wrote: > > Michel Fortin, el 14 de febrero a las 07:48 me escribiste: > >> On 2010-02-14 05:12:41 -0500, Jacob Carlborg said: > >> > >>> It iterates backwards, all the way back to the 50s. I think > >>> "reverse" is a much better word. > >> Agree. >

Re: foreach_reverse is better than ever

2010-02-14 Thread Mike James
Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > Mike James wrote: > > Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > > > >> Leandro Lucarella wrote: > >>> Michel Fortin, el 14 de febrero a las 07:48 me escribiste: > >>>> On 2010-02-14 05:12:41 -0500, Jacob Carlborg said: > &

Re: foreach_reverse is better than ever

2010-02-14 Thread Mike James
Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > Mike James wrote: > > Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > > > >> Leandro Lucarella wrote: > >>> Michel Fortin, el 14 de febrero a las 07:48 me escribiste: > >>>> On 2010-02-14 05:12:41 -0500, Jacob Carlborg said: > &

Re: DWT

2010-02-18 Thread Mike James
Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > Whom should I credit as authors of DWT? The page at > http://www.dsource.org/projects/dwt does not specify names. > > Thanks, > > Andrei It would be great if D2, DWT and DSSS would work together for the rollout of your book... How about a combined release with D

Re: From the silent community

2010-02-19 Thread Mike James
Walter Bright Wrote: > Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > > I think that phenomenon has a name in politics (large but not organized > > majority with interests hurt by a small, focused, and motivated group). > > Nixon coined the phrase "silent majority." And we haven't got him to kick around any mor

Re: From the silent community

2010-02-19 Thread Mike James
Nick Sabalausky Wrote: > "Andrei Alexandrescu" wrote in message > news:hlmg1r$2dp...@digitalmars.com... > > > > BTW, in related news: my editor offered a contract for a PDF edition, > > looking towards Kindle, Sony Reader, and perhaps iPhone and iTampon. > > ?!?!? Are you kidding me? Is that l

Re: Whither Tango?

2010-02-21 Thread Mike James
Michel Fortin Wrote: > On 2010-02-20 23:21:01 -0500, "Adam D. Ruppe" > said: > > > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 09:11:32PM -0500, Michel Fortin wrote: > >> I'd say go with just "format". That'd make the fully qualified name is > >> "std.string.format", no need to repeat "string" a second time, even

Re: D: a computer programming language?

2010-03-17 Thread Mike James
FeepingCreature Wrote: > On 17.03.2010 05:28, James Con wrote: > > Hello! Um, for whom? Enquiring mind(s) want to know? I think if it goes > > on at this pace that the rise of the machines is definitely possible. > > (!). This skunkworks started when? And is now where? Hello! Ooops, I > > (damn

Re: Obfuscating function names and the like inside exe file

2010-03-21 Thread Mike James
Walter Bright Wrote: > Nick Sabalausky wrote: > >> 3. rename your sensitive classes to obscure names, then alias them to a > >> readable name. The alias name shouldn't appear in the executable: > >> > >> class CXX97ASDFXX { } > >> alias CXX97ASDFXX mySensitiveName; > > > > Wouldn't compi

Re: D is dead, so now where it the money going?

2010-03-29 Thread Mike James
JamesKan Wrote: > Andrei wants some (he just wants money, huh). Walter? Shut it down. Count > the people engaged in this , and if a few select > capitalize on its failure, then, who are you? There is no money in D. > None. Nada. Religions are not for profit. It's OK to worship, whoever > peop

Re: How much time will D1 be around?

2008-11-11 Thread Mike James
> - Will we ever have a complete D1 compiler? Agreed... At least let us have one production-grade D1 compiler that we can use. -=mike=-

Improvement to switch-case statement

2008-12-31 Thread Mike James
Just an idea that could improve Ds switch-case statement - add an elipsys as in object Pascal to allow case ranges. switch (var) { case 1: \\ do something break; case 2..10: \\ do something else break; } What do people think? -=mike=-

Re: Properties

2009-01-08 Thread Mike James
Gripe, Gripe, Gripe. Gripe, Gripe, Gripe, Wonderful Gripe...

Re: Case for std.experimental

2014-07-30 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d
"Andrei Alexandrescu" wrote in message news:lr8r7a$j7v$1...@digitalmars.com... On 7/29/14, 12:01 PM, Sean Kelly wrote: Frankly, if Dub is bundled with D, I don't see any reason for std.experimental to exist. Those two ideas just seemed to develop in parallel. The way I see it: * dub: a loos

Re: What are the worst parts of D?

2014-09-26 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d
"H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d" wrote in message news:mailman.1690.1411686833.5783.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:56:55PM +, Sean Kelly via Digitalmars-d wrote: .. Nah, they should be behead() and amputate(). Then the language would have to be called jihaDi..

D Language Specification corrupted.

2014-09-30 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d
Hi, The PDF of the D Language Specification appears to be corrupted - it only contains the front index. Regards, -=mike=-

Re: NASA/JPL Rules for writing Critical Software

2015-01-09 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d
"Walter Bright" wrote in message news:m8n4c2$2ovq$1...@digitalmars.com... http://pixelscommander.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/P10.pdf Misra is also a good set of guidelines to follow... http://www.misra.org.uk/ -=mike=-

Re: Would Lcl be better if it was in D?

2015-03-01 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 1 March 2015 at 20:41:30 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist wrote: So I was using the Lazarus IDE the other day, and i thought to myself, what if i create an application with only a button in it. well it was easy enough to do. but behold I saw the executable and it was 14 MB, and I said 'well da

Re: Current state of GUI's

2015-09-03 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 3 September 2015 at 12:19:25 UTC, motaito wrote: Hi, I haven't used D before and wanted to take a closer look at it. However, there are a few things that keep me from doing so. Most notably I am somewhat confused about the state of GUI's. I have looked at a couple projects and on

Re: Interesting user mistake

2015-09-04 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 4 September 2015 at 14:05:09 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Friday, 4 September 2015 at 13:55:03 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: [...] [snip] [...] Isn't it called Maximal Munch... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximal_munch Regards, --

Re: D ranked as #25 by IEEE spectrum

2015-09-25 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 09:17:46 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 08:45:08 UTC, Kagamin wrote: [...] Well, gnome is written entirely in C AFAIK, so it's definitely possible to write full-scale desktop applications in C without C++. But off the top of my he

Re: Please mark off-topic discussions with [OT]

2016-05-14 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 14 May 2016 at 13:07:56 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: The thread "Github names & avatars" is not related to the D language, and adds much traffic to the forum. Please place [OT] in title when posting anything that is not releated to the D language. Thanks, Andrei A lot of me

Re: Please mark off-topic discussions with [OT]

2016-05-14 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 14 May 2016 at 14:41:06 UTC, ZombineDev wrote: On Saturday, 14 May 2016 at 14:32:03 UTC, Mike James wrote: On Saturday, 14 May 2016 at 13:07:56 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: The thread "Github names & avatars" is not related to the D language, and adds much traffi

Re: Always false float comparisons

2016-05-16 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 16 May 2016 at 06:46:59 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/15/2016 10:37 PM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote: [...] Because, as I explained, that results in a 2x or more speed degradation (along with the loss of accuracy). [...] I used to do numerics work professionally. Most of the

Re: DConf Videos

2016-07-01 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 16:22:18 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote: On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 10:40:01 UTC, sarn wrote: What's the best source of DConf videos at the moment? Are there are any edited versions released? I'd like to share some of my favourite talks. Also, where are the DConf 2016 v

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