On Wednesday, 12 July 2006 at 23:35:55 UTC, Kirk McDonald wrote:
If anyone's interested, I just did some fairly major
refactoring of how Pyd wraps functions. I've essentially
written my own tuple/metaprogramming library. (Well, at least a
limited one.) I'm not sure if the new code is any shorte
On Tuesday, 17 December 2013 at 21:21:09 UTC, Evan Davis wrote:
Hello all,
I've been looking into how to create a multicast packet using
std.socket, and I found that std.socket doesn't support the
socket option IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP. Should I be using IPv6 for all
of my multicast needs?
-Evan D
On Saturday, 7 December 2013 at 00:40:52 UTC, Manu wrote:
Assuming a comparison to C++, you know perfectly well that D
has a severe
disadvantage. Unless people micro-manage final (I've never seen
anyone do
this to date), then classes will have significantly inferior
performance to
C++.
C++ cod
Walter,
what do you think about allowing mixins to work with parameter
list construction?
Currently you cannot generate code unless it is syntactically
complete on its own, this disallows parameter list construction
even for syntactically correct parameter lists.
The other failure point of
On Friday, 15 November 2013 at 01:09:53 UTC, bearophile wrote:
I have created two interesting D entries for this Rosettacode
Task, is someone willing to create a Reddit entry for this?
They show very different kinds of code in D.
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Look-and-say_sequence#D
Bye,
bearop
On Thursday, 14 November 2013 at 20:30:40 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Thursday, 14 November 2013 at 20:27:23 UTC, Rob T wrote:
Bug fixes should be as frequent as possible. To understand
why, just try and find a good reason to artificially hold back
a bug fix.
Code breakage. DMD has good amount of
On Thursday, 14 November 2013 at 00:37:38 UTC, Tyro[17] wrote:
[...]
Your thoughts and concerns please.
Please do not mix together bugs fix releases with enhancement/new
addition releases, those represent two different types of release
that serve two entirely different purposes.
Bug fixes s
On Thursday, 14 November 2013 at 18:23:20 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
[...]
Natural languages are "humans complete" because they are the
one vehicle we use to describe and manipulate our understanding
of the entire reality. If configurable syntax was something
necessary to model the worl
On Wednesday, 13 November 2013 at 12:21:22 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
I need to read up on what expression templates can do.
But where to read? There's no such thing as "expression template"
explicitly mentioned in here.
http://dlang.org/template.html
--rt
On Wednesday, 13 November 2013 at 05:26:54 UTC, jean christophe
wrote:
Hello
would you guys say that std.json is a good or bad choice dor a
desktop application ? I've read many threads about it on the
forum and finally I don't realy know what to do Oo`
I need my Gtkd application to maintain
On Thursday, 7 November 2013 at 16:17:35 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
After a year and a half (
https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7961 ) I have to
remind Walter and Co. about this enhancement request. :) This
is becoming increasingly important not just to me, but to the D
community in
thing instead
of a bad thing.
--rt
On Monday, 11 November 2013 at 00:13:34 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Monday, November 11, 2013 00:39:04 Rob T wrote:
On Sunday, 10 November 2013 at 23:08:11 UTC, Nick wrote:
> The alternative is to slowly build up a menagerie of quirks
> that pu
On Tuesday, 12 November 2013 at 11:06:17 UTC, Don wrote:
On Tuesday, 12 November 2013 at 09:55:20 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
I forgot to mention that "expression templates" can be used in
D in an equivalent manner that they are used in C++,
They are crippled compared to C++, because you have no
On Tuesday, 12 November 2013 at 02:37:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 11/10/13 11:46 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2013-11-11 02:46, bearophile wrote:
It's also useful to take a look at what F# is doing:
http://tomasp.net/blog/2013/computation-zoo-padl/index.html
I'll do that. I've been
On Sunday, 10 November 2013 at 22:33:34 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Jacob Carlborg:
http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP50
I suggest to add some more use cases (possibly with their
implementation).
Bye,
bearophile
A scalable and elegant solution to the "inspection" problem may
be a AST use case.
Disc
On Sunday, 10 November 2013 at 23:08:11 UTC, Nick wrote:
The alternative is to slowly build up a menagerie of quirks
that put us on the same path as C++.
It seems that a buildup of quirks is underway as is evidenced by
this discussion. The other solution is to at some point place a
freeze on
On Friday, 8 November 2013 at 20:09:57 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
I made a wiki page for that.
Please discuss, improve and prioritize.
http://wiki.dlang.org/Agenda
Update the processes so that there's a public beta release rather
than only an "insider" beta release to better smooth things out.
On Thursday, 7 November 2013 at 15:55:47 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
[..]
Then should public and private be @public and @private in order
to be
consistent? Then we'd be inconsistent with C++, Java, C# etc.
which would make
it that much harder for folks to learn D. Would you want
@static and @
And gain what? You force everyone to change their code for
essentially zero
benefit.
- Jonathan M Davis
It's not zero benefit, although it may seem like that over a
small period of time, it's over an extended period that
inconsistencies can become a very significant cause of
productivity
On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 14:42:19 UTC, Gambler wrote:
Every time I do, I get the urge to abandon programming and
change my
occupation.
My thoughts too, The Internet is ripe for another revolution, but
the old ways need to be abandoned rather than continually propped
up with duct tape a
On Wednesday, 24 July 2013 at 12:24:26 UTC, Luís Marques wrote:
I have some old D code and I wanted to improve its build
system: that code was using a .bat and shell script with dmd,
manually listing all the .d files to be linked! Don't ask me
why I didn't use at least a Makefile, I don't recal
On Sunday, 21 July 2013 at 17:07:56 UTC, Suliman wrote:
Do team have any roadmap for D? I mean Language + standard lib.
There are the DIP's, which are not exactly a raodmap, but at
least can give you a sense of what the outstanding issues are and
what the possible solutions may be.
http://w
On Wednesday, 17 July 2013 at 18:47:47 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
On 07/17/2013 01:06 AM, Rob T wrote:
A colleague of mine who has started coding in D sent me an
email to say
how impressed he is by the spell checker in the compiler.
I've been making frequent use out of the spell checke
A colleague of mine who has started coding in D sent me an email
to say how impressed he is by the spell checker in the compiler.
I've been making frequent use out of the spell checker too, and
appreciate this incredibly simple innovation.
The point I'd like to make is that that sometimes sim
On Saturday, 13 July 2013 at 15:20:44 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
Well most people use X.Y.Z-alpha-N for bleeding edge releases,
X.Y.Z-beta-N for getting close to a release, X.Y.Z-RC-N for
actual
release candidates, the last of which becomes the release
simply by
relabelling to X.Y.Z without any
On Wednesday, 10 July 2013 at 04:15:12 UTC, Kapps wrote:
The download page has the wrong link, it doesn't seem to have
been updated for 2.063.2. Can just manually add a .2 at the
end, such as
http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2013/dmd.2.063.2.zip
Thanks, that worked.
Yup the download page
On Tuesday, 9 July 2013 at 22:46:36 UTC, Tyro[17] wrote:
On 7/9/13 6:36 PM, Rob T wrote:
On Tuesday, 9 July 2013 at 22:34:18 UTC, Rob T wrote:
Agreed, however we should also have a pre-release package for
testing
that is clearly marked as a pre-release, it can go on a
separate web
page to
On Tuesday, 9 July 2013 at 22:34:18 UTC, Rob T wrote:
Agreed, however we should also have a pre-release package for
testing that is clearly marked as a pre-release, it can go on a
separate web page to avoid any possibility of confusion.
The current release is showing as both 2.63.0 and
On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 07:36:41 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Sat, 2013-07-06 at 15:24 +0200, mike james wrote:
> 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.
On Monday, 17 June 2013 at 23:24:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Why not try it on your machine and report what the autocomplete
says?
Through secure Tor network with no history on my end anyway, I
typed as far as "d pr" and "d programming" showed up as the
second item in the list, so I would
I'm wondering why there is no announcement in the announce group
about this? It's actually a major event considering this is the
first time there's been a minor bug fix release of dmd following
a major release
... or did I somehow miss it?
--rt
On Monday, 17 June 2013 at 21:33:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I tried it on a machine I never use google on, and I got the
same autocomplete results.
Your complete historical profile is stored on Google's servers,
not the individual machine. Did you log into Google, or use the
same IP, or any
On Monday, 17 June 2013 at 18:12:12 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 6/17/2013 6:53 AM, Aleksandar Ruzicic wrote:
Oh, on second read I see you were talking about autocomplete
box. I've disabled
that feature long ago..
I like the autocomplete box. I use it as a spell checker :-)
Anyhow, I think t
On Monday, 17 June 2013 at 01:29:19 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1gfk15/ć_programming_language_compile_c_subset_to_c_java/
Unfortunately the choice of ć as the name dominates much of the
reddit discussion. I just had to mention it, because I too
thoug
On Sunday, 9 June 2013 at 06:03:14 UTC, Manu wrote:
I'm here, and interested in D due mainly to it's immediate
familiarity, as
opposed to others like Rust for instance. I can actually
envision a
migration. It seems like it's possible... one step at a time.
...it's also compiled and binary compa
On Friday, 7 June 2013 at 22:57:01 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 6/7/2013 9:51 AM, Rob T wrote:
If D had a compiler option switch to collect statistics on
feature usage, maybe
you could get something a lot better than a guess for both 1
and 2.
And then you'd have to convince people to u
On Friday, 7 June 2013 at 07:22:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
A pretty good metric of some feature being used is the
frequency it comes up in discussion here and the action it sees
in bugzilla.
There are two obvious reasons why a feature would not have much
buzz:
1. it works perfectly
2. i
On Thursday, 6 June 2013 at 15:40:26 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling
wrote:
I see a potential problem with allowing 'final' on its own to
mean 'final and
non-overriding', which is that if you _mean_ to override a
function in the base
class, but put simply 'final' and not 'override', it will still
On Thursday, 6 June 2013 at 05:19:32 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
1. 'virtual' means a method is an "introducing" one.
2. 'override' means override with a non-final function.
3. 'final override' means a method overrides a base virtual
function with a final function.
4. 'final' by itself both mean fin
On Thursday, 6 June 2013 at 01:14:23 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
I would have expected something more like
1. 'virtual' means a method is an "introducing" one.
2. 'override' means override with a non-final function.
3. 'final override' means a method overrides a base virtual
function with a
f
On Tuesday, 4 June 2013 at 18:03:53 UTC, Jerry wrote:
Hi folks,
I've downloaded the current dmd 2.063 zip and tried it out.
This is
Ubuntu 12.10 x86_64. Every program I compile segfaults when I
try to
run it. As a simple example:
jlquinn@wyvern:~/re/test$ cat junk.d
import std.stdio;
void
On Tuesday, 4 June 2013 at 07:33:04 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Tuesday, 4 June 2013 at 05:41:16 UTC, Rob T wrote:
Structs would IMO be far more useful if they had inheritance.
Inheritence can be fully removed from the rest of
polymorphism, so there's no reason why structs which ar
On Tuesday, 4 June 2013 at 05:58:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 6/4/13 1:41 AM, Rob T wrote:
Structs would IMO be far more useful if they had inheritance.
We do offer subtyping via alias this.
Andrei
Yeah, I saw that method described in another thread. The
technique is not even
Manu, I'm wondering that perhaps you should not be using classes
at all. You can still create a similar overridable scheme for
struct methods, and although it may not be as convenient, it will
work. However a big failure point with stucts is the lack of
inheritance.
Structs would IMO be far m
On Monday, 3 June 2013 at 16:01:29 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
C++11 deprecated auto_ptr in favor of unique_ptr, but it's
basically the same concept, and it works very well in cases where
you prefer to manage your own memory. D should have the same
thing in the std lib, it's not difficult to implem
On Friday, 31 May 2013 at 14:33:48 UTC, khurshid wrote:
I just download dmd 2.063, and compile simple "hello world"
program:
// hello.d
import std.stdio;
int main()
{
writeln("hello world");
return 0;
}
with -O -release -inline -noboundscheck flags.
And size of result output file '
On Saturday, 1 June 2013 at 16:23:11 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Saturday, 1 June 2013 at 16:13:18 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
I'd also like to see this.
Me too. Last time this came up I said no since there's some
inline asm hacks you can do but turns out those hacks suck in
capability and appea
On Friday, 31 May 2013 at 16:52:53 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Friday, May 31, 2013 18:05:16 Rob T wrote:
I've seen this happen with 2.062, if you take out
-noboundscheck
it may reduce the size significantly and compile a lot faster.
Makes no sense.
My first guess would be that more
The := syntax looks just like the += *= ~= syntax, which has
completely different meanings, so for some people it will only
serve to confuse them more than they already are.
BTW D does have instances of multiple ways of doing the same
things.
Eg
private:
int x = 1;
private int x = 1;
p
I've seen this happen with 2.062, if you take out -noboundscheck
it may reduce the size significantly and compile a lot faster.
Makes no sense.
--rt
I don't know if this is the case with the code in question (I
have not looked at it), but sometimes there will be a significant
effect on performance caused by the use of the garbage collector.
This is an area in need of radical improvements.
You have to minimize situations where there's a lot
On Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 18:06:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
about the changelog. Andrej Mitrovic has done a super awesome
job with the changelog, and it is paying off big time.
I am very happy to be proven wrong about it.
Yes, this sort of improvement should never ever be underestimated
f
I really don't understand the reasoning for not removing as many
known sources of bugs as is reasonably possible *provided* that
doing so makes the situation incrementally better (rather than
worse or to no effect).
So will introducing non-nullable references make things worse or
have no prac
On Thursday, 23 May 2013 at 18:13:17 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
@nogc comes to mind (I believe Andrei mentioned it during one
of the talks released). [1][2]
I would love to have something like @nogc to guarantee there's no
hidden or misplaced allocations in a section of code or
optionally
On Thursday, 9 May 2013 at 22:42:14 UTC, Manu wrote:
And it's
even questionable that scope as originally intended can be
properly
implemented anyway.
...so, the problem is no different than 'auto ref' as you
mention above.
It's not implemented as drafted, and we're debating what's
actually
On Thursday, 9 May 2013 at 21:55:51 UTC, Manu wrote:
Umm, what if the non-template counterpart returns ref? Then it
doesn't
behave the same.
Yes, the non-template version cannot ref return an auto ref
param, but I would expect that neither can the template version
unless auto ref is specifie
On Thursday, 9 May 2013 at 19:43:25 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 5/9/13 3:39 PM, Rob T wrote:
So, if I understand correctly, auto ref for templates will end
up doing
exactly the same thing as auto ref for non-template functions?
That
would be perfect, otherwise it'll be ter
On Thursday, 9 May 2013 at 19:26:37 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Thursday, May 09, 2013 19:45:16 Peter Alexander wrote:
It seems that 'auto ref' would be suitable, provided we can
find
a way for it to work with normal functions (in a sensible way,
not like templates).
That's trivial enough
On Friday, 26 April 2013 at 16:13:44 UTC, Luís Marques wrote:
BTW, I was working on a Object.factory scenario right now (!)
and stumbled on the limitation that the class can only have a
default constructor. Couldn't you call a non-default
constructor by passing var args to Object.factory()?
I
On Monday, 6 May 2013 at 14:05:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
template const T& min(const T& a, const T& b) {
return b < a ? b : a;
}
...
int x = ...;
auto & weird = min(x, 100);
What I see going on is an attempt to double up on the use of ref
for twp conflicting purposes. Perhaps pa
On Saturday, 27 April 2013 at 22:32:14 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Vladimir Panteleev's dustmite really helps here. It's really
simple to
use, too.
https://github.com/CyberShadow/DustMite
T
Hey, tks for the tip about dustmite, it looks very useful!
--rt
On Friday, 3 May 2013 at 17:27:39 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 5/2/13 9:10 PM, d coder wrote:
And another one. I am working on an embedded DSL on top of D
Language. I
am using compile time parser ctpg
https://github.com/youkei/ctpg for
some syntax parsing. It works great, expect for memor
On Tuesday, 30 April 2013 at 14:47:14 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
Yes, just like it's better matching to long than string.
-Steve
More precise language is to state that there is no "better match"
and long should simply not ever match with bool because long is
not the same thing as bool
On Sunday, 28 April 2013 at 13:38:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
[...]
If enough differences accumulate to make bool quite a different
type from a regular integral, then the matter of overloading
with long, conversion from literals 1 and 0 etc. may be
reopened. Even then, it would be a dif
On Monday, 29 April 2013 at 14:08:20 UTC, Mike James wrote:
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
On Sunday, 28 April 2013 at 09:05:06 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
On Saturday, 27 April 2013 at 21:52:30 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/27/2013 2:29 PM, Rob T wrote:
If bools are 1 bit ints, then why do we have 'true' and
'false' as keywords?
Because writing cast(bool)
On Saturday, 27 April 2013 at 21:52:30 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/27/2013 2:29 PM, Rob T wrote:
If bools are 1 bit ints, then why do we have 'true' and
'false' as keywords?
Because writing cast(bool)0 and cast(bool)1 is unappealing.
That cannot be the main reason.
On Saturday, 27 April 2013 at 21:59:50 UTC, eles wrote:
On Saturday, 27 April 2013 at 21:52:30 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/27/2013 2:29 PM, Rob T wrote:
Because writing cast(bool)0 and cast(bool)1 is unappealing.
why need to write that? just drop the bool type entirely and go
ahead with
On Saturday, 27 April 2013 at 21:17:42 UTC, bearophile wrote:
I invite everybody to not just patch around the problems you
see in your D code, but to reduce and report the issues,
I report what I can, and I'd like to say I have been impressed
with seeing these bugs get fixed quickly. Reasonabl
On Saturday, 27 April 2013 at 19:51:48 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
An analogous issue comes up here now and then about 'char' and
characters. Are chars an 8 byte integer, or are they
characters, or are they octets, or should access only be
allowed to multibyte characters as an indivisible code po
On Saturday, 27 April 2013 at 20:31:15 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
The problem is 'bool' has *NOTHING* in common with integers!
- Can't use + - * / << >> on bool's
Because currently D views booleans as a 1 bit int, you can do
seemingly nonsensical things with the bool type
bool b = false + true; //
On Saturday, 27 April 2013 at 01:37:22 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
On Friday, 26 April 2013 at 19:22:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I remember once a language that tried to define true and false
as something other than 1 and 0. It was horrible.
Don't need to look far away. Most shell do that.
D can
On Friday, 26 April 2013 at 21:37:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/26/2013 1:59 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
On 4/26/13, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
An even better example:
import std.stdio;
void foo(bool x) { writeln("1"); }
void foo(long x) { writeln("2"); }
void main()
{
foo(1); // "1"
On Friday, 26 April 2013 at 19:37:48 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
The main place where casting would be annoying - if conditions
and loop
conditions - already insert an explicit cast underneat the hood.
IMO it still makes no sense to have the implicit casting done in
conditional statements be
On Friday, 26 April 2013 at 15:36:32 UTC, eles wrote:
On Friday, 26 April 2013 at 15:34:01 UTC, eles wrote:
Alternatively, a function/variable could be provided inside the
module, returning the module name as a string, so that one
could write:
Object.factory(__MODULE__, ".Human");
I believ
On Friday, 26 April 2013 at 08:03:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/25/2013 11:16 PM, deadalnix wrote:
This "feature" never has been useful to me.
It has been useful to me. So there!
If you want an int to behave like a bool, then by all means go
ahead and write the code yourself, I don't w
On Saturday, 20 April 2013 at 00:44:20 UTC, Diggory wrote:
Ah I didn't see that board, could a moderator move this please?
This forum is actually a news group run through the nntp system
and as such there's no moderator and no way to move a thread.
Your best bet for answers it to repost in d
On Friday, 19 April 2013 at 23:40:58 UTC, Diggory wrote:
I found the opengl bindings in "derelict" but that has too many
dependencies for my liking.
The dsource website confuses people new to D, it's not maintained
anymore and applies to the D1 era. For some reason it just won't
go away.
On Wednesday, 17 April 2013 at 16:10:02 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
On Wednesday, 17 April 2013 at 12:22:21 UTC, Peter Alexander
wrote:
On Wednesday, 17 April 2013 at 07:58:42 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
auto is about type inference. Attribute is part of the
function type as much as it return type, and so
On Wednesday, 17 April 2013 at 13:59:05 UTC, Peter Alexander
wrote:
[...]
If you want type inference then you just need to use:
const foo();
And yes, it is by design. The spec is quite clear on this
issue. Type inference is signalled by lack of return type --
not the presence of auto. auto
On Thursday, 11 April 2013 at 04:23:07 UTC, xenon325 wrote:
On Wednesday, 10 April 2013 at 16:08:53 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
It may as well be a mistake that nonvirtual functions are at
all part of a class' methods. This has been quite painfully
seen in C++ leading to surprising conclusi
On Wednesday, 10 April 2013 at 17:01:36 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
On Wednesday, 10 April 2013 at 16:25:03 UTC, ixid wrote:
The forum has a number of issues, is there anything practical
that can be done to address them? A forum should really work.
I was doing some maintenance around the ti
On Wednesday, 10 April 2013 at 22:02:09 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
I have noticed that programming and videogames both scratch the
same
mental itch, at least for me. If I've been doing a lot of one,
I'm less
motivated to do the other.
I recently reached that exact same conclusion too, but
On Wednesday, 10 April 2013 at 21:33:52 UTC, Jeff Nowakowski
wrote:
On 04/10/2013 04:44 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
FWIW there's this Neal Stephenson novel "Diamond Age" taking
place in
the future. That book's vision is that all modern movies are
"ractive"
(short from "interactive") using
On Wednesday, 10 April 2013 at 06:03:08 UTC, Manu wrote:
Can you demonstrate a high level class, ie, not a primitive
tool, but the
sort of thing a programmer would write in their daily work
where all/most
functions would be virtual?
I can paste almost any class I've ever written, there is
usua
On Wednesday, 10 April 2013 at 04:32:52 UTC, Manu wrote:
moments, and give the collect function a maximum timeout where
it will
yield, and then resume where it left off next time I call it.
Maximum collect period is perhaps the most significant missing
feature of all. Having that alone would
On Wednesday, 10 April 2013 at 04:32:52 UTC, Manu wrote:
final on the class means you can't derive it anymore (what's
the point of a
class?),
I think that you'd place final on a derived class, not a base
class. So it can make perfect sense, although final on the
methods of a final class make
On Tuesday, 9 April 2013 at 18:38:55 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
[...]
All of this should be CUSTOMIZABLE and DECOUPLED! Give people
the frigging control over the OOP breed they want to use.
Providing people a toolkit not a one-button black box (and that
button keeps getting stuck!) would b
On Tuesday, 9 April 2013 at 16:49:04 UTC, Manu wrote:
final class Foo{ //no inheritance
final: //no virtuals
...
}
2 extra words and you are done. The only problem I see is that
there is no
way to "undo" final on a few methods later...
final class Foo
{
final //no virtuals
{
.
On Monday, 8 April 2013 at 08:21:06 UTC, Manu wrote:
The C++ state hasn't changed though. We still avoid virtual
calls like the
plague.
One of my biggest design gripes with D, hands down, is that
functions are
virtual by default. I believe this is a critical mistake, and
the biggest
one in
On Sunday, 7 April 2013 at 09:41:21 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
[...]
applications situation is pretty acceptable right now. Well, it
will be, once easy way to track accidental gc_malloc calls is
added.
That's the critical missing piece of the puzzle. In effect we
need to be able to use a sub-set of
On Sunday, 7 April 2013 at 09:02:25 UTC, Adrian Mercieca wrote:
Incidentally, when you got this speed, what compiler were you
using? dmd?
I was (and still am) using the latest released DMD compiler.
Here's the original thread where I presented the problem and the
solution. Youu probably sho
On Saturday, 6 April 2013 at 21:29:20 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
On Saturday, 6 April 2013 at 11:01:09 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Peter Alexander:
I also use a modified druntime that prints callstacks when a
GC allocation occurs, so I know if it happens by accident.
Is it possible to write a pa
On Saturday, 6 April 2013 at 08:01:09 UTC, Adrian Mercieca wrote:
In my very simple test, the GC version of my program ran more
than twice
slower than the non GC version. I just cannot accept that kind
of
performance penalty.
Thanks.
I have ran into similar problems with D and understand w
There was a discussion about Exceptions in D.learn that may be
relevant.
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/yqzjldpknloyxwlbu...@forum.dlang.org
If you look though the discussion towards the end you'll see
mention of "Lippincott functions", and from there a C++ exception
handler example is shown w
I would like to see tuple syntax and abilities improved. It's
been a while since I last tried to use them so I'm not prepared
to explain in detail what I'd like to see for improvements,
however I can say that when I did try to use them I remember they
were much more unwieldy to use and more lim
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9773
On Thursday, 21 March 2013 at 00:30:41 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Rob T:
Any comments before I submit a bug report?
I don't see a crash (Win 32) but it should not compile.
Bye,
bearophile
I'm running it on Linux 64 with compiler optimizations enabled.
I think the solution to the
void f( ref string a = "" )
{
a = "crash and burn";
}
main()
{
f(); // seg fault. This should not even compile.
}
I did not see a bug report on this one, but maybe I missed it.
Any comments before I submit a bug report?
--rt
On Monday, 11 March 2013 at 00:58:22 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Well, it seems like the game industry might be the place where
we could hit it
big given the interest that some of those guys have in D, and
there's a game
company that Walter's been supporting by working on some of the
features
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