Re: Progress printing with threads?

2020-07-01 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 1 July 2020 at 07:52:28 UTC, AB wrote: Hello. I am unsure how to proceed about printing progress in my program. Is it a good idea to std.concurrency.spawn a new thread?.. This example code shows my situation: MmFile input = new MmFile(/* ... */); ulong fileSize

Re: idiomatic output given -preview=nosharedaccess ,

2020-06-30 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 30 June 2020 at 20:04:33 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: The answer is -- update Phobos so it works with -nosharedaccess :) Yeah... and dip1000. And dip1008. And dip... :)

Re: Privatize a few members to allow messing with them #11353

2020-06-30 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 30 June 2020 at 19:58:05 UTC, matheus wrote: +loc.linnum = loc.linnum + incrementLoc; This works because it was declared: void linnum(uint rhs) { _linnum = rhs; } Right? Almost. Given these definitions: @safe @nogc pure @property { const uint linnum() { return

Re: Privatize a few members to allow messing with them #11353

2020-06-30 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 30 June 2020 at 19:42:57 UTC, matheus wrote: in this case this was more a style thing than anything else right? Or is there something I'm not able to see? Before the change, linnum and charnum are public variables, one can do a += on them. After the change, they become properties

Re: scope guard question

2020-06-29 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 29 June 2020 at 22:31:12 UTC, Arjan wrote: So when no inner scope is present, the scope exit 'runs' after the return? Is that indeed expected behavior according to the specification? Yes. A scope ends at the '}'. Destructors and scope guards execute then, after the return.

Re: [DIP1000] Something I don't quite understand regarding 'scope'

2020-06-29 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 29 June 2020 at 06:21:43 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote: Since `local` and `writeln` are templates, the attributes for their parameters are inferred from their bodies. `local!(int*)` doesn't do anything with the parameter, so it's inferred as `scope`. `writeln!(int*)` apparently does

Re: reference variables don't exist, but can simulate them

2020-06-28 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 29 June 2020 at 02:11:15 UTC, NonNull wrote: Deprecation: Cannot use alias this to partially initialize variable j of type refer. Use j._() This is for the line j=3 What is this about? Where does this hidden rule come from? That one comes from [1]. But there are quite a few more

[DIP1000] Something I don't quite understand regarding 'scope'

2020-06-28 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
void local(Args...)(Args args) { } void main() @safe { import std.stdio; scope int* p; local(p); // Ok writeln(p); // Error: scope variable p assigned to non-scope parameter _param_0 calling std.stdio.writeln!(int*).writeln } The signatures of `std.stdio.writeln` and `local`

Re: How to implement Canceleable spawn() from parent

2020-06-28 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 28 June 2020 at 23:02:26 UTC, aberba wrote: I believe this: StopWatch sw; sw.start; works becuse D structs are initialized by default, right? I've never actually done it this way. Little details. Yup. You can also do a auto sw = StopWatch(AutoStart.yes); and not have to call

Re: How to implement Canceleable spawn() from parent

2020-06-28 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 28 June 2020 at 13:29:08 UTC, aberba wrote: Getting error: Error: template std.concurrency.spawn cannot deduce function from argument types !()(void delegate(Tid id) @system, Tid), candidates are: /usr/include/dmd/phobos/std/concurrency.d(460,5): spawn(F, T...)(F fn, T

Re: Garbage collection

2020-06-27 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 16:03:12 UTC, kinke wrote: On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 15:27:34 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote: Hrm... What happens if you call collect() twice? Nothing changes, even when collecting 5 times at the end of each iteration. In the filed testcase, I've extracted

Re: Garbage collection

2020-06-27 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 14:12:09 UTC, kinke wrote: Note that I explicitly clear the `str` slice before GC.collect(), so that the stack shouldn't contain any refs to the fat string anymore. Hrm... What happens if you call collect() twice?

Re: Garbage collection

2020-06-27 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 11:35:12 UTC, Arafel wrote: If you are using linux, have in mind that the memory is often not returned to the OS even after a (libc) free. That's a good observation. Although a GC implementation is not required to actually use malloc, so depending on that falls

Re: Garbage collection

2020-06-27 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 11:11:38 UTC, James Gray wrote: I am measuring the memory usage using top from the command line. GC.minimize() does seem to stop the leak. That is not a memory leak. That's the allocator keeping pages for itself to not have to go to the kernel every time you

Re: Garbage collection

2020-06-27 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 10:08:15 UTC, James Gray wrote: I find that the memory usage grows to about 1.5GB and never decreases. Is there something I am not understanding? How are you measuring that? GC.collect() does not necessarily release the pages to the OS. For that, there's the

Re: called copy constructor in foreach with ref on Range

2020-06-23 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 23 June 2020 at 05:24:37 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 03:25:55AM +, Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: On Tuesday, 23 June 2020 at 02:41:55 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > We'd need some major redesigning to make uncopyable ranges >

Re: called copy constructor in foreach with ref on Range

2020-06-23 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 23 June 2020 at 03:52:23 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Monday, June 22, 2020 9:25:55 PM MDT Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d- learn wrote: On Tuesday, 23 June 2020 at 02:41:55 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > As things stand, uncopyable ranges aren't really a thing, > and

Re: called copy constructor in foreach with ref on Range

2020-06-22 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 23 June 2020 at 02:41:55 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: As things stand, uncopyable ranges aren't really a thing, and common range idiomns rely on ranges being copyable. Which idioms are those? I mean, genuine idioms, not design flaws like e.g. references. We'd need some major

Re: called copy constructor in foreach with ref on Range

2020-06-22 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 22 June 2020 at 21:33:08 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Don't be shocked when you find out how many Phobos ranges have .init states that are invalid (e.g., non-empty, but .front and .popFront will crash / return invalid values). Which ones? Jonathan is coming from the POV of generic

Re: Temporary File Creation

2020-06-22 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 22 June 2020 at 21:46:57 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote: Has anybody written a procedure for creating a temporary file in a race-free manner? And why has such a procedure not already been added to std.file when std.file.tempDir has? See: https://dlang.org/library/std/file/temp_dir.html

Re: called copy constructor in foreach with ref on Range

2020-06-22 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 22 June 2020 at 20:51:37 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: You're unlikely to find much range-based code that does that and there really isn't much point in doing that. Again, copying isn't the problem. It's using the original after making the copy that's the problem. Copy *is* the

Re: are std.traits.FieldNameTuple and std.traits.Fields returned value always in sync?

2020-06-22 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 22 June 2020 at 19:55:29 UTC, mw wrote: Yes, in the same order and of the same length. Can we add this information to the doc? to make it clear to the user: https://dlang.org/library/std/traits.html It's pretty clear in that doc already: alias FieldNameTuple(T) =

Re: Why infinite loops are faster than finite loops?

2020-06-20 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 20 June 2020 at 21:11:57 UTC, tastyminerals wrote: I am not sure that this is a question about D or a more general one. I have watched this nice presentation "Speed Is Found In The Minds of People" by Andrei: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJJTYQYB1JQ=youtu.be?t=2596 and on 43:20

Re: are std.traits.FieldNameTuple and std.traits.Fields returned value always in sync?

2020-06-20 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 20 June 2020 at 20:17:54 UTC, mw wrote: Are their returned value, i.e the field names and their types are always in the same order, and of the same length? If they are not, how to get sync-ed pairs (name, type)? If they are, why we need two separate calls, which cause confusion.

Re: "if not" condition check (for data validation)

2020-06-19 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 18 June 2020 at 17:39:44 UTC, Denis wrote: I should add that this one made me laugh though, giving flashbacks to that horrible "not speak" of the early 90s: if ( configfile.isFile.not ) ... LOL Approve Yoda does.

Re: "if not" condition check (for data validation)

2020-06-18 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 18 June 2020 at 13:57:39 UTC, Dukc wrote: No reason to use templates here Pff. Me no think straight. -.-

Re: "if not" condition check (for data validation)

2020-06-18 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 18 June 2020 at 12:13:21 UTC, Denis wrote: THE ESSENTIAL QUESTION Is there a way to write an `unless` operator that would allow the condition to be expressed in an affirmative sense? It would be used like `if`, i.e. something like: unless ( ) { ; // Or even:

Re: "if not" condition check (for data validation)

2020-06-17 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 17 June 2020 at 23:46:54 UTC, Denis wrote: `if` is not a good substitute, because it works in the opposite sense, often requiring lots of `not`s. As a trivial example: assert( configfile.isFile && configfile.extension == ".conf" ) -vs- if ( !configfile.isFile ||

Re: Should a parser type be a struct or class?

2020-06-17 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 17 June 2020 at 11:50:27 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote: Should a range-compliant aggregate type realizing a parser be encoded as a struct or class? In dmd `Lexer` and `Parser` are both classes. In general how should I reason about whether an aggregate type should be encoded as a

Re: tardy v0.0.1 - Runtime polymorphism without inheritance

2020-06-17 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 15:11:49 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: Tardy lets users have their cake and eat it too by not making them have to use classes for runtime polymorphism. I've got to ask though. Why "tardy"? Search engines be damned? :)

Re: Initializing an associative array of struct

2020-06-14 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 14 June 2020 at 04:36:09 UTC, Denis wrote: Note also that the defaults for id and value are fine... I would welcome a suggestion for how to initialize the keys of parameters. As there will be a couple dozen of the param string keys, a more succinct method would be preferable over

Re: Weird behavior with UDAs

2020-06-13 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 13:08:29 UTC, realhet wrote: How can be a string represented with 'null' by default instead on `""`. Unless I state it explicitly with name="" ? o.O Because string is simply `alias string = immutable(char)[]`, and default initializer for arrays is null.

Re: Why is it possible to call non-const member functions of rvalues but a compile error to modify members or rvalues directly?

2020-06-13 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 11:26:58 UTC, Johannes Loher wrote: Why is it a compile error to set `_a` directly but calling `a` just works fine? If we prevent modifying members of rvalues directly, I would also expect calling non-const member functions of rvalues to be prevented. 1)

Re: Finding out ref-ness of the return of an auto ref function

2020-06-13 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 09:13:36 UTC, Arafel wrote: If, however, you're wrapping a function template, however, you won't know until you actually instantiate it, which is basically going back to Paul Backus' solution. So the compiler doesn't always have all the information :) Well, the

Re: Finding out ref-ness of the return of an auto ref function

2020-06-12 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 12 June 2020 at 17:50:43 UTC, Arafel wrote: All in all, I still think something like `__traits(isRef,return)` would still be worth adding! After all the compiler already has all the information, so it's just about exposing it. I'm trying to think of a library solution, but I find

Re: filter custom version id from __traits code

2020-06-09 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 9 June 2020 at 17:40:10 UTC, Basile B. wrote: Any idea ? As I replied in the issue report: Instead of static if (!is(mixin(member) == module) && !(is(mixin(member use static if (is(typeof(mixin(member

Re: Error: llroundl cannot be interpreted at compile time, because it has no available source code

2020-06-08 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 8 June 2020 at 18:08:57 UTC, mw wrote: 2) even it does so, but why such simple function as lroundl cannot be CTFE-ed? Because, as the error message states, there's no source for it :) std.math calls into C math library.

Re: Arrays and non-copyable elements

2020-06-07 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 8 June 2020 at 00:31:10 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: This is a bug, please file. What is likely happening is that the template is not moving the data to the underlying C call. -Steve That is not a bug, it's a shortcoming of garbage-collected arrays. D arrays are not

Re: Should it compile?

2020-06-07 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 7 June 2020 at 23:09:41 UTC, Jack Applegame wrote: auto const_ua = Unique!(const NonCopyable)(move(ca)); // error, why??? } ``` Moving *from* a const would violate const. At least, until such time that the compiler is finally taught about move() (hopefully, sometime this

Re: Should it compile?

2020-06-06 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 6 June 2020 at 12:54:38 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote: The moveEmpalce should compile... But not when the *first* argument is const though, like in the example. For *that*, one would have to insert an additional cast.

Re: Should it compile?

2020-06-06 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 6 June 2020 at 11:58:06 UTC, Basile B. wrote: On Saturday, 6 June 2020 at 08:55:20 UTC, Jack Applegame wrote: Should it compile? I think, it should. maybe it shouldn't but then with another message, for example Error, cannot `void` initialize a `const` declaration. since

Re: Making alias of a struct field needs "this".

2020-06-02 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 2 June 2020 at 09:28:01 UTC, realhet wrote: I did it that way: private enum fieldMap = [ // simple names for descriptive and structured fields "hauteur" : "general.height", "rayon" : "profile.radius", "plage" : "profile.plage", "offsetv"

Re: Can you move a disabled this(this) struct in to a container type if it's an rvalue?

2018-12-16 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 16 December 2018 at 04:02:57 UTC, Q. Schroll wrote: On Thursday, 13 December 2018 at 23:33:39 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote: On Thursday, 13 December 2018 at 13:17:05 UTC, aliak wrote: Ah. Is there any case where you would not want to do that when you have a T value as parameter

Re: Can you move a disabled this(this) struct in to a container type if it's an rvalue?

2018-12-13 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 13 December 2018 at 13:17:05 UTC, aliak wrote: Ah. Is there any case where you would not want to do that when you have a T value as parameter? Hypothetically, yes, e.g. an object that contains references to itself. However, D operates on the assumption that you don't have such

Re: How to get a function name (string) @ compile time

2018-12-09 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 9 December 2018 at 03:29:27 UTC, Andrew Pennebaker wrote: Er, when I try to use either foo.stringof, or __trait(identifier, foo), I always get that binding name, rather than the original function name, sad panda. I can only print out the current variable name, but I want to

Re: int[] as constructor

2018-12-05 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 at 23:28:42 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Well OK, for int[] it's kinda silly 'cos that's the default, but in my code I've often had to write things like: auto z = cast(float[]) [ 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 ]; Err, auto z = [ 1.0f, 2, 3 ]; ?

Re: version(StdDoc)

2018-11-25 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 25 November 2018 at 21:38:43 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Actually, I just thought of a way to do this with the existing language: use a struct to simulate an enum: struct E { alias Basetype = int; Basetype impl; alias impl this;

Re: dip1000 rule 5

2018-11-25 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 25 November 2018 at 21:22:09 UTC, sclytrack wrote: Did DIP1000 go through any review process? I'm seeing it is a draft. Review links are at the very end. https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/PROCEDURE.md Keeps talking about a Drafts subdirectory. I don't see any directory

Re: Convert multibyte `string` to `dstring`

2018-11-25 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 25 November 2018 at 21:23:31 UTC, Vladimirs Nordholm wrote: Is there a proper way to convert a string with multibyte characters into a dstring? void main() { import std.conv : to; import std.stdio : writeln; string a = "abc123"; auto b = to!dstring(a);

Re: dip1000 rule 5

2018-11-25 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 25 November 2018 at 19:22:36 UTC, sclytrack wrote: There are 4 rules listed. ... What is rule 5? ... Wouldn't you call it D3 because of the name mangling of DIP1000 once activated by default? That "rule 5" looks like a straight up mistake. As for D3... IMHO, no, not by a long

Re: version(StdDoc)

2018-11-24 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 25 November 2018 at 07:19:50 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote: Granted, it may require some special syntax, i.e. enum E { a, b if version(Windows), c if version(Windows), d if version(Posix), } or something to that effect. Come to think of it, since UDAs are now

Re: version(StdDoc)

2018-11-24 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 25 November 2018 at 05:41:56 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 05:48:16PM +, Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: Yup. UDAs did get in there eventually, and version should too. I think this would be a trivial DIP, by making it such that a version

Re: version(StdDoc)

2018-11-24 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 24 November 2018 at 17:43:35 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Saturday, November 24, 2018 9:28:47 AM MST Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: On Saturday, 24 November 2018 at 07:00:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > [not legal] > > enum Foo > { > &

Re: version(StdDoc)

2018-11-24 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 24 November 2018 at 07:00:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: [not legal] enum Foo { a, b, version(linux) c = 42, else version(Windows) c = 54, } You're forced to version the entire enum. Not in this case, no: enum Foo { a, b, c = {

Re: How to iterate getSymbolsByUDA

2018-11-24 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 24 November 2018 at 03:48:12 UTC, Eko Wahyudin wrote: Hi all, anyone know how to iterate getSymbolsByUDA ? enum Attr; struct A { @Attr int a; int b; @Attr void foo() {} @Attr void foo(int) {} } void main() { import std.traits; import std.stdio; alias

Re: D vs perl6

2018-11-22 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 22 November 2018 at 09:03:19 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote: On Monday, 19 November 2018 at 06:46:55 UTC, dangbinghoo wrote: So, can you experts give a more comprehensive compare with perl6 and D? Sure! 1). You can actually read and understand D code. Made my day. Thank you :)

Re: Throwing constructors and member destructors

2018-11-20 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 20 November 2018 at 13:28:21 UTC, Boris-Barboris wrote: On Tuesday, 20 November 2018 at 13:20:08 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote: https://dlang.org/changelog/2.083.0.html#reboot14246 Nvm, found the info in the issue tracker, thank you for the link. You're welcome. It's one of those

Re: Throwing constructors and member destructors

2018-11-20 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 20 November 2018 at 13:01:40 UTC, Boris-Barboris wrote: https://run.dlang.io/is/LdylJX Notice no "B destructor" line in stdout. Just got bitten by the assumption that my Buffer struct that transactionally aquires multiple external resources in constructor will rollback via member

Re: What is best way to read and interpret binary files?

2018-11-20 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 20 November 2018 at 11:54:59 UTC, welkam wrote: On Monday, 19 November 2018 at 22:14:25 UTC, Neia Neutuladh wrote: Nothing stops you from writing: SomeStruct myStruct; fd.rawRead((cast(ubyte*))[0..SomeStruct.sizeof]); Standard caveats about byte order and alignment.

Re: difficulties with const structs and alias this / template functions

2018-11-19 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 19 November 2018 at 14:51:14 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Or just use inout. This is literally what inout is for: inout(q32) toQ32 inout { return q32(x); } This should transfer whatever constancy of the original is used for the return value. Yep, I just wanted to

Re: difficulties with const structs and alias this / template functions

2018-11-19 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 19 November 2018 at 14:04:29 UTC, Dennis wrote: On Monday, 19 November 2018 at 13:34:50 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote: Because it's not mutation, it's initialization. Oh. That's an epiphany for me. :) When a ctor is `pure`, the compiler knows it doesn't mutate any state other

Re: difficulties with const structs and alias this / template functions

2018-11-19 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 19 November 2018 at 12:28:43 UTC, Dennis wrote: On Monday, 19 November 2018 at 02:39:32 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote: You're skimming the examples ;) I'm not saying your examples don't work, I'm trying to understand the minimum requirements. You said: "That's [constru

Re: difficulties with const structs and alias this / template functions

2018-11-18 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 19 November 2018 at 02:08:14 UTC, Dennis wrote: On Monday, 19 November 2018 at 01:24:02 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote: Yup, that's because, like Rubn said, copying value types is trivial. Where it all comes to bite you is when you start having pointers, because you can't copy a const

Re: difficulties with const structs and alias this / template functions

2018-11-18 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 19 November 2018 at 02:03:18 UTC, Dennis wrote: On Monday, 19 November 2018 at 01:13:29 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote: You just dismissed that second to last sentence, did you? :) I don't know what you mean with it. It's not that I'm trying to be sneaky or lazy really trying

Re: difficulties with const structs and alias this / template functions

2018-11-18 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 19 November 2018 at 00:50:28 UTC, Dennis wrote: I'm also trying to make it work with immutable, and from BigInt [2] I learned that constructors need to be `pure` for creating immutable objects. (I don't know why.) That's only for types with indirections (pointers), since `pure`

Re: difficulties with const structs and alias this / template functions

2018-11-18 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 18 November 2018 at 20:10:52 UTC, Dennis wrote: On Sunday, 18 November 2018 at 18:17:54 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote: Q log2(Q)(inout Q num) if (is(Q : q16) || is(Q : q32)) { /* ... */ } Being able to jam mutable/const/immutable implementation in one function like that should

Re: difficulties with const structs and alias this / template functions

2018-11-18 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 18 November 2018 at 17:30:18 UTC, Dennis wrote: I'm making a fixed point numeric type and want it to work correctly with const. First problem: ``` const q16 a = 6; a /= 2; // compiles! despite `a` being const. Ouch. That's actually kind of nasty. writeln(a); //

Re: Inconsistency between `AllMembers` and `hasMember`

2018-11-18 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
Reported: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19410

Re: Inconsistency between `AllMembers` and `hasMember`

2018-11-18 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 18 November 2018 at 09:10:57 UTC, bauss wrote: On Sunday, 18 November 2018 at 02:37:13 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote: It's only "hidden" in that there's no symbol to access it... But in that case shouldn't you be able to tell whether it has it or not through hasMem

Re: Inconsistency between `AllMembers` and `hasMember`

2018-11-17 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 18 November 2018 at 00:51:51 UTC, drug wrote: On 18.11.2018 1:26, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: That's because the compiler passes it a hidden pointer to refer to the context outside. The compiler could perhaps be smarter about it, and see if those methods actually refer to the context,

Re: How do you debug @safe @nogc code? Can't figure out how to print.

2018-11-17 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 17 November 2018 at 13:55:24 UTC, aliak wrote: You can use "debug blah" to hide inside functions that are attributed, but when you have an attributed function that calls a template, attribtues of which are supposed to be inferred, it seems to fail. Maybe a bug if it's supposed

Re: How do you debug @safe @nogc code? Can't figure out how to print.

2018-11-17 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 17 November 2018 at 13:13:36 UTC, aliak wrote: Sawweet! Thanks, that made the printing possible! You're welcome ;) Still, try a more recent compiler. This works fine: void foo() @nogc { debug { import std.stdio; writefln("%d", 42); } } "scope" is const

Re: How do you debug @safe @nogc code? Can't figure out how to print.

2018-11-16 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 16 November 2018 at 12:59:22 UTC, aliak wrote: Adding @trusted to declaration of opDispatch gets rid of @safe error but I still get "Error: @nogc function D main cannot call non-@nogc function". And going through the codebase and figuring out where to add @trusted is *very*

Re: Sorting a subrange

2018-11-16 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 16 November 2018 at 11:24:20 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote: /** Sort sub-range [sub_begin, sub_end] of [begin, end]. * * Describe at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WlJEz2wb8Y=2686s */ template// I models RandomAccessIterator void sort_subrange(I begin, I end,

Re: Inherit from class based on bool value

2018-11-13 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 13 November 2018 at 07:10:26 UTC, Jamie wrote: Is this possible? I can't get it to work in the way I'm showing above. ...or abstract away Ali's solution: enum OPTION { FALSE, TRUE, } template Select(OPTION opt, IfTrue, IfFalse) { static if (opt == OPTION.TRUE) alias

Re: dip1000: why can't the addressee come into existence later?

2018-11-10 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 10 November 2018 at 06:56:29 UTC, Neia Neutuladh wrote: The following code doesn't work with @safe -dip1000: int* p; int i; p = i has a shorter lifetime than p, the compiler complains. But this code does: int i; int* p; p = The compiler does this even

Re: Backend nearly entirely converted to D

2018-11-08 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 8 November 2018 at 18:48:05 UTC, Neia Neutuladh wrote: On Thu, 08 Nov 2018 18:38:55 +, welkam wrote: On Thursday, 8 November 2018 at 18:15:55 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote: One keystroke (well ok, two keys because it's *) ;) https://dl.dropbox.com/s/mifou0ervwspx5i/vimhl.png

Re: Backend nearly entirely converted to D

2018-11-08 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 8 November 2018 at 17:50:20 UTC, welkam wrote: On Wednesday, 7 November 2018 at 22:08:36 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Now for all of you who think that one letter variables are ok here is exercise. Go and open src/dmd/func.d with your favorite code editor. Find function

Re: Exception slipping through the catch block?

2018-11-08 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 8 November 2018 at 16:13:55 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Thursday, 8 November 2018 at 15:50:38 UTC, helxi wrote: Although it's pretty frustrating, isn't it? Now not only I have to think about catching exceptions but also about Errors, and have no guarantee that I have everything

Re: Is this a bug? +goto

2018-11-07 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 7 November 2018 at 20:03:47 UTC, Michelle Long wrote: Case A: int x; { if (true) goto X; //int x; } ~x; X: That is not "Case A". This one is: { if (true) goto X; T x; X: } // x.__dtor That should error as an easy cop-out, nothing wrong with that approach.

Re: Module function conflicting with reserve function

2018-11-06 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 6 November 2018 at 21:19:29 UTC, Peter Campbell wrote: Given your second example that makes me think that, because object functions are provided by the runtime without me explicitly importing it, this is likely only an issue for object functions? Or can this behaviour happen with

Re: Module function conflicting with reserve function

2018-11-06 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
Sorry, forgot to put the spec link into my previous resonse: https://dlang.org/spec/function.html#overload-sets

Re: Module function conflicting with reserve function

2018-11-06 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 6 November 2018 at 20:40:11 UTC, Peter Campbell wrote: Hi there. I've been playing with D and have encountered this really awkward behaviour. Basically I'm getting a compiler error inside a function I wrote in my module as it thinks I'm trying to call itself with invalid

Re: Is this a bug? +goto

2018-11-05 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 6 November 2018 at 00:38:01 UTC, MatheusBN wrote: On Tuesday, 6 November 2018 at 00:13:52 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote: But here it's fine: void main(){ { goto Q; S x; } // <--- Q: writeln("a"); } because goto jumps over both i

Re: Is this a bug? +goto

2018-11-05 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 5 November 2018 at 23:54:59 UTC, MatheusBN wrote: Hi, I posted this in another thread but without any response. This code: void main(){ goto Q; int x; Q: writeln("a"); } Gives me this error: "source_file.d(4): Error: goto skips declaration of variable

Re: Implicit cast to const of result returned from findSplit()

2018-11-05 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 5 November 2018 at 13:26:18 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote: AFAICT, it looks like a missing bool qualifier on `opCast!bool`, right? ...Like a missing 'const' qualifier ;) auto findSplit(alias pred = "a == b", R1, R2)(R1 haystack, R2 needle) // ... static struct Result(S1, S2) if

Re: Wed Oct 17 - Avoiding Code Smells by Walter Bright

2018-11-05 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 5 November 2018 at 05:55:02 UTC, unprotected-entity wrote: On Saturday, 3 November 2018 at 21:28:22 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote: The only difference is that `func` became a member function. And now what? You can just as easily "forget" what's in your struct/class as in

Re: d word counting approach performs well but has higher mem usage

2018-11-03 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 3 November 2018 at 14:26:02 UTC, dwdv wrote: Assoc array allocations? Yup. AAs do keep their memory around (supposedly for reuse). You can insert calls to GC.stats (import core.memory) at various points to see actual GC heap usage. If you don't touch that AA at all you'll only

Re: Wed Oct 17 - Avoiding Code Smells by Walter Bright

2018-11-03 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 3 November 2018 at 20:38:29 UTC, unprotected-entity wrote: As has been pointed out several times before, this is a contrived example. Allow a simple transformation: ``` module test; struct S { private uint a; void setA(uint n) { // damn implicit

Re: Full precision double to string conversion

2018-11-03 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 3 November 2018 at 17:26:19 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote: void main() { double value = -12.000123456; int precision = 50; import std.stdio; writefln("%.*g", precision, value); import std.format; string str = format("%.*g", precision, value);

Re: Full precision double to string conversion

2018-11-03 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 3 November 2018 at 13:20:22 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote: On Saturday, 3 November 2018 at 12:45:03 UTC, Danny Arends wrote: How can I convert a double value -12.000123456 to its string value "-12.000123456", i.e. without loosing double-precision digits ? Specify how many digits

Re: Dealing with raw types as attributes

2018-11-01 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 1 November 2018 at 20:33:10 UTC, Neia Neutuladh wrote: On Thu, 01 Nov 2018 20:01:51 +, Stanislav Blinov wrote: Check if an UDA is a type?.. As in, not just `is(uda == Foo)`, but simply `is(uda)`: Which works, but generally makes things more complex in code that's already

Re: Dealing with raw types as attributes

2018-11-01 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 1 November 2018 at 16:14:45 UTC, Neia Neutuladh wrote: The spec says that a user-defined attribute must be an expression, but DMD accepts a wide range of things as UDAs: struct Foo { string name = "unknown"; } @Foo int bar; `bar` has the *type* Foo as an attribute. It's not

Re: Wed Oct 17 - Avoiding Code Smells by Walter Bright

2018-10-31 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 31 October 2018 at 13:37:07 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 01/11/2018 2:33 AM, Stanislav Blinov wrote: On Wednesday, 31 October 2018 at 13:28:54 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: But at the end of the day, it just depends on the scope of the module. Is it getting to large? If so

Re: Wed Oct 17 - Avoiding Code Smells by Walter Bright

2018-10-31 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 31 October 2018 at 13:28:54 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: But at the end of the day, it just depends on the scope of the module. Is it getting to large? If so, split. Yup. LOC aren't a particulalry informative metric. Documentation, comments, unit tests, blanks, all contribute

Re: expanding variadic into format

2018-10-31 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 31 October 2018 at 12:13:57 UTC, Codifies wrote: On Wednesday, 31 October 2018 at 12:09:04 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote: ``` void printValue(Args...)(Font fnt, float x, float y, string frmt, auto ref Args args) { // ... import std.functional : forward; string

Re: expanding variadic into format

2018-10-31 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 31 October 2018 at 11:53:52 UTC, Codifies wrote: void printValue(Font fnt,float x, float y, string frmt, ...) { /* matrix math and other stuff removed for readability */ string message = format(frmt, _arguments); is there some way to somehow transfer my input variadic

Re: struggling to link against a C global in D (win/vs2017)

2018-10-28 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 29 October 2018 at 00:01:21 UTC, DanielG wrote: In my D app I'm declaring it this way: extern (C) { extern __gshared int myIntValue; int myIntFunc (int a, int b); } The function seems to link OK, but the C global will not. Should it be extern(Windows),

Re: how to make '==' safe for classes?

2018-10-28 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 28 October 2018 at 12:38:12 UTC, ikod wrote: and object.opEquals(a,b) do not inherits safety from class C properties, and also I can't override it. Yep. Since Object is the base class and it defines opEquals as: ``` bool opEquals(Object); ``` the compiler rewrites `a == b` as

Re: Built-in array opSliceAssign

2018-10-25 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 13:22:36 UTC, Eduard Staniloiu wrote: The spec doesn't exactly say it uses memset, but it does imply it: https://dlang.org/spec/arrays.html#array-copying talking about "aggressive parallel code optimizations than possible with the serial semantics of C" and

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