Re: Slides from my ACCU Silicon Valley talk

2010-12-13 Thread Yao G.
z8n >> >> These say nothing against D. Why does one take them personally? They >> are both also highly informative. As far as I can tell, these two >> comments go much deeper in operator semantics theory than the combined >> effort of 68 other threads by Walter, Andrei et al. For example the >> precedence of operators can get problematic when using several >> libraries from various vendors. >> >> Then you have: >> >> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/eklq0/ >> andrei_alexandrescus_talk_at_accu_silicon_valley/c18t1d5 >> >> "I really like D (2.0) and I wish it would take off." >> >> 7 points? WTF? What is the value of this reply? It's a purely >> subjective opinion and doesn't necessarily even beg for further >> discussion. >> Oh, retard using sockpuppets. Business as usual. :) -- Yao G.

Re: Please vote on std.datetime

2010-12-09 Thread Yao G.
with your reasons. Thank you, Andrei I hate the SysDate name (ugly). And I hate that I must link to advapi32.lib. And honestly, It gives me a strong kitchen-sinky vibe (there's too much functionality). But I vote yes. Solid library. -- Yao G.

Re: Basic coding style

2010-11-22 Thread Yao G.
ould stop being rude with people at the D.learn newsgroup. -- Yao G.

Re: Kill implicit joining of adjacent strings

2010-11-10 Thread Yao G.
switch to C# :) So please kill automatic joining of adjacent strings in D with fire. No. Thank you, bearophile -- Yao G.

Re: Is Walter tired of D?

2010-11-10 Thread Yao G.
e language, the process.. everything. Sight. You are too obvious. At least change your posting style :) -- Yao G.

Re: What every D programmer really wants

2010-11-10 Thread Yao G.
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:13:31 -0600, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: But he's the same troll :/ Using a bunch of socket puppets. Are those IPV4 or V6 socket puppets? -Steve He he he. s/socket/sock On a serious note, I think that they are IPV6 sockets. -- Yao G.

Re: What every D programmer really wants

2010-11-09 Thread Yao G.
On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 23:28:09 -0600, Andrew Wiley wrote: Please do not feed the trolls. But he's the same troll :/ Using a bunch of socket puppets. -- Yao G.

Re: datetime review part 2 [Update 4]

2010-11-09 Thread Yao G.
ok at the API. I see what you did there :) -- Yao G.

Re: datetime review part 2 [Update 4]

2010-11-09 Thread Yao G.
27;ll give it a more throughly review tonight. -- Yao G.

Re: datetime review part 2 [Update 4]

2010-11-09 Thread Yao G.
On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:03:10 -0600, Jonathan M Davis wrote: Ugh. The datetime.d file is 1.5 MB? 0_o -- Yao G.

Re: [due diligence] std.xml

2010-10-19 Thread Yao G.
indly being called like that, as they are some of the "peers" that review Phobos submissions. :p And yes, I agree that std.xml is not really good. P.D. Are you drunk? -- Yao G.

Re: The Next Big Language

2010-10-18 Thread Yao G.
trivial to do e.g. with the Linux version of zip." <- http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9zqj0/the_state_of_d_programming_is_this_situation/c0f8wym See the post above. May I ask Your reddit nick? Couldn't find any Yao G. there. I don't have one, but I'll create an account there pronto. Thanks for your concern retard... err... I mean, eternium. -- Yao G.

Re: The Next Big Language

2010-10-17 Thread Yao G.
o. It gets more sad if you look at his comments history and see that like 80% of what he writes there, is just D bashing. At least he should post with the same user name in both places :) -- Yao G.

Re: [challenge] Bounded types

2010-10-12 Thread Yao G.
sed to indicate that, for example, an event is cancelled "until further notice" or something will be finished "when it's done", etc. -- Yao G.

Re: Current status of DB libraries in D

2010-10-12 Thread Yao G.
I think that you meant D1. ;) Yes. Sorry for the confusion. The guy ask a question and I give a misdirection :( -- Yao G.

Re: Current status of DB libraries in D

2010-10-12 Thread Yao G.
hen it's a D2 project. Also. Check for imported modules, if you find modules from the Tango Project (tango.foo.bar, tango.baz.bar, etc), then it's a D1 project. Tango only works with D1. I'm an idiot. Swap D1 for D2 in the above paragraph. Must. Not. Be. Hungry. When. Posting. -- Yao G.

Re: Current status of DB libraries in D

2010-10-12 Thread Yao G.
Tango Project (tango.foo.bar, tango.baz.bar, etc), then it's a D1 project. Tango only works with D1. Best, Gianluigi -- Yao G.

Re: [challenge] Bounded types

2010-10-10 Thread Yao G.
't counted as a solution. If you were expecting a review, then please be more specific next time! I'm sorry. I tried to make a jocular remark. but it seems that I failed. Maybe I forgot to add a smile or something. -- Yao G.

Re: [challenge] Bounded types

2010-10-10 Thread Yao G.
my messages on that list. I use it in my port of Boost date time library, to convert the overflow from hours, to days. It's a simple, brain dead example, but maybe it can be used as basis or inspiration for something more complex. -- Yao G.

Re: phobos is failure

2010-10-05 Thread Yao G.
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 04:11:18 -0500, dolive wrote: 2, templat + range subversion use habit, Lost the popularization base sorry! I don't understand this last point. sorry! -- Yao G.

Re: One more update on d-programming-language.org

2010-09-16 Thread Yao G.
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 03:48:07 -0500, retard wrote: Have you considered using the community driven doc gen? Was it 'dil' or something? Kandil. I know about it but I haven't tried it. I'll check if it supports D2. Thanks. -- Yao G.

Re: One more update on d-programming-language.org

2010-09-16 Thread Yao G.
gave up after a couple of hours. It's impossible. :( -- Yao G.

Re: [challenge] To implement XPath 2.0 in D

2010-09-13 Thread Yao G.
ed a better module to manipulate XML files than the one in std.xml. -- Yao G.

Re: [Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

2010-09-04 Thread Yao G.
On Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:55:58 -0500, Walter Bright wrote: Isn't it interesting that people keep inventing new audio formats and fail to solve obvious fundamental problems with them, like providing fields for things like artwork, lyrics, etc.? http://www.id3.org/ -- Yao G.

Re: Reporting TDPL bugs in Bugzilla

2010-09-01 Thread Yao G.
27;just give up already'. Someone marked it wontfix. Why, hello there retard! -- Yao G.

Re: Bug reports [Was: Re: About Andrei's interview, part 3]

2010-08-28 Thread Yao G.
knowledge about exactly how dmd, druntime, and phobos work to be able to come up with appropriate fixes. - Jonathan M Davis Yeah. I was joking. Forgot to put the smile tho'. It was just that I found funny when he asked Don to look those bugs and create patches. -- Yao G.

Re: Bug reports [Was: Re: About Andrei's interview, part 3]

2010-08-28 Thread Yao G.
Entries in that list often don't contain normal bugs or additive enhancements. Bye, bearophile What stops you from creating patches for these bugs? -- Yao G.

Re: Using glog's design for Phobos?

2010-08-28 Thread Yao G.
On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:44:34 -0500, BCS wrote: If your looking for a Google lib to add/copy, do this one first: http://google-gflags.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/gflags.html Isn't essentially what std.getopt does? -- Yao G.

Re: Using glog's design for Phobos?

2010-08-27 Thread Yao G.
unning a console app or a window app? -- Yao G.

Re: Using glog's design for Phobos?

2010-08-27 Thread Yao G.
intf / writeln is perfectly fine, until you start to program in Windows, where there's no command line to display the text. Here's where I think a small logging library comes handy. I did a small one that logs to a file, and a variant that display the log messages to a independent window. -- Yao G.

Re: [Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

2010-08-26 Thread Yao G.
y you justify being a pirate. -- Yao G.

Re: Sources for D docs?

2010-08-25 Thread Yao G.
TOC and -- most importantly -- indices! Norbert Maybe these: - http://dsource.org/projects/phobos/browser/trunk/docsrc/ - http://dsource.org/projects/phobos/browser/trunk/docsrc/std.ddoc -- Yao G.

Re: Yet another Gregorian.d contribution

2010-08-23 Thread Yao G.
I forgot to add DayClock to get the local and UTC date: http://ideone.com/SkKkP (line 805) -- Yao G.

ISO-8601 WIP [Was: Yet another Gregorian.d contribution]

2010-08-22 Thread Yao G.
And here's the starting point to conversion from and to ISO-8601 dates and times: http://ideone.com/aZEaL This will be expanded as new date and time structures are implemented. -- Yao G.

Link to dsource on each Phobos module doc

2010-08-22 Thread Yao G.
is to read the source. So, do you think that this is feasible? Or it's too much work for something not so important. Maybe a DDOC Macro could be handy. I can volunteer to do it. -- Yao G.

Re: Yet another Gregorian.d contribution

2010-08-22 Thread Yao G.
On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:43:45 -0500, Yao G. wrote: [snippity snip] Damn! I did another mistake! Here's the code, I hope I don't make another mistake :'( http://ideone.com/QXJwa -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

Re: Yet another Gregorian.d contribution

2010-08-22 Thread Yao G.
On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:43:45 -0500, Yao G. wrote: [snip] Sorry, this is the correct link: http://ideone.com/i3y9Y -- Yao G.

Yet another Gregorian.d contribution

2010-08-22 Thread Yao G.
ime/gregorian.html if you want to have a small idea of what's implemented. Oh, I almost forgot, the code is here: http://ideone.com/SCR34 Apologies for this tl;dr; wall of text. And I'm eagerly awaiting some comments, critics and ideas to improve this work. Thanks. -- Yao G.

Re: On C/C++ undefined behaviours

2010-08-22 Thread Yao G.
On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 15:40:32 -0500, Robert Clipsham wrote: For the record, I'm on a 6 core 3.2Ghz a core box with 8GB ram and eclipse still feels bloated and slow. Same goes for OpenOffice.org :3 Unfortunately, you are not alone on this, bro :( -- Yao G.

Re: TDPL ebook

2010-08-21 Thread Yao G.
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 02:49:43 -0500, Yao G. wrote: Heh! It remainds me of those old Wizardry games, where you had to frantically search for words in the manual to start a game. And by remainds I actually mean reminds. :) -- Yao G.

Re: TDPL ebook

2010-08-21 Thread Yao G.
d on page XXX". Heh! It remainds me of those old Wizardry games, where you had to frantically search for words in the manual to start a game. -- Yao G.

Re: welcome! [Re: Scope/block behaviour]

2010-08-19 Thread Yao G.
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:57:09 -0500, Stanislav Blinov wrote: So? :) So what? -- Yao G.

Re: welcome! [Re: Scope/block behaviour]

2010-08-19 Thread Yao G.
(You may have a compatriot in our resident member Bearophile, whose posts sometimes remind me of yours.) I hope you'll stay for a while, and share your enthusiasm and design sensibilities with the D community. Cheers, Graham Eduardo Cavazos sounds more like a spanish/latin american name, no? -- Yao G.

Re: Contributing

2010-08-16 Thread Yao G.
Boost date_time, but I gave up when I had to implement that faux-IEEE754 integer that handles infinities (+ and -), and NANs. It was just too much :( And it was only the DateTime component, I still hadn't checked the remaining classes. -- Yao G.

Re: To avoid some 32=>64 bit user code port bugs

2010-08-16 Thread Yao G.
retty good and comprehensive. -- Yao G.

Re: Andrei's Google Talk

2010-08-15 Thread Yao G.
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:27:57 -0500, Walter Bright wrote: I'd like to know how the macro system is inadequate for generating Latex, man, etc. format. I'm attempting to generate DocBook 5.0 xml files using DDOC. I'll let you know what issues I find. -- Yao G.

Re: Andrei's Google Talk

2010-08-14 Thread Yao G.
On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 21:51:45 -0500, retard wrote: You don't need to use it either. Why do you think it's a personal attack if I'm evaluating some tool and don't see it fit for some part of the community? Do you think my opinions would have more value if I wrote under m

Re: Andrei's Google Talk

2010-08-14 Thread Yao G.
might taint my mind. Huh?... The front end is GPLed, just stay away from the back end. The doc generator is in the former part. You are criticizing the doc generator right? How would yo be sued contributing to a GPLed code? Or are you just pulling a strawman? -- Yao G.

Re: Andrei's Google Talk

2010-08-14 Thread Yao G.
On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 21:18:19 -0500, retard wrote: [snip] Thanks for your informative post. I'm really glad that you don't use such primitive, butt-ugly tools like DDOC. -- Yao G.

Re: Andrei's Google Talk

2010-08-14 Thread Yao G.
On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:32:18 -0500, bearophile wrote: Yao G. Wrote: You are just becoming a parody of yourself. Everyone deserves respect when expresses opinions honestly and in an civil way, even when the ideas are wrong. Bye, bearophile Civil way? Really? But you are right about

Re: Andrei's Google Talk

2010-08-14 Thread Yao G.
On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:20:49 -0500, Mike Parker wrote: What prevents you from contributing to the frontend under its current license? Apparently he doesn't like butt-ugly frontends. That's the game breaker for him :| -- Yao G.

Re: Andrei's Google Talk

2010-08-14 Thread Yao G.
You are just becoming a parody of yourself. Keep trying, though. On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:06:04 -0500, retard wrote: Sat, 07 Aug 2010 16:54:03 +0200, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2010-08-07 00:54, Walter Bright wrote: Don wrote: The reason they're the same is that the docs were originally writt

alias this and immutable shenanigans

2010-08-12 Thread Yao G.
truct? 2. Why is disallowed to alias this a struct "getter" property? -- Yao G.

Re: Fwd: ddoc file on command line

2010-08-12 Thread Yao G.
Correction, it still don't work. I was eagerly optimistic in my early message. But I think I found out what's happening. I'll do a little bit more of test with my modified ddoc file and will post the results.

Re: Fwd: ddoc file on command line

2010-08-12 Thread Yao G.
Yep. That seems to do the trick. Maybe this should be documented, that the ddoc file should be the first file passed to the command line. Thanks Walter. -- Yao G.

Fwd: ddoc file on command line

2010-08-10 Thread Yao G.
erated correctly but the few macros that I redefine (DDOC, DDOC_SUMMARY, etc.) don't get replaced with the new ones. The docbook.ddoc is on the same directory where I have the *.d files (code). Thanks in advance. -- Yao G.

Re: Should destructors be able to tell who called them?

2010-08-10 Thread Yao G.
Thanks for this Sean. Although I concur with Steve that it looks weird, at least is usable. Yao G. On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:51:56 -0500, Sean Kelly wrote: Steven Schveighoffer Wrote: One of the common problems of destructors is that they cannot assume any of their GC-allocated

Re: TDPL Errata: Page 208

2010-08-09 Thread Yao G.
Andrei has this errata web page: http://www.erdani.com/tdpl/errata/index.php?title=Main_Page I think you should edit the wiki and add them, because here your message will be lost between all the flux of messages. On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:29:06 -0500, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: The last exam

Re: tolf and detab

2010-08-08 Thread Yao G.
On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:27:04 -0500, bearophile wrote: Yao G.: What's next? Will you demand attribution like the time Andrei presented the ranges design? Of course. In the end all D will be mine :-) Bye, bearophile :D That was a good comeback. -- Using Opera's revol

Re: tolf and detab

2010-08-08 Thread Yao G.
On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:44:09 -0500, bearophile wrote: Walter Bright: If you want to conclude that Python is better at processing files, you need to show it using each language doing it a way well suited to that language, rather than burdening one so it uses the same method as the less po

Re: Andrei's Google Talk

2010-08-07 Thread Yao G.
On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 04:36:27 -0500, Mafi wrote: Am 07.08.2010 06:39, schrieb Nick Sabalausky: (...) I use Programmer's Notepad 2 which does parenthesis-matching out-of-the-box. Hey, you are the first person I heard of that also uses PN2 :) . It isn't a full-featured IDE but it's a grea

Re: tolf and detab

2010-08-06 Thread Yao G.
What does idiomatic D means? On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:50:52 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 08/06/2010 08:34 PM, Walter Bright wrote: I wrote these two trivial utilities for the purpose of canonicalizing source code before checkins and to deal with FreeBSD's inability to deal with CRLF

Re: Poll regarding delete removal

2010-07-16 Thread Yao G.
I don't understand why people complains about this issue. delete didn't worked the way it do in C++. Why on Earth do anybody would want to use a broken operator? On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:15:07 -0500, F. Almeida wrote: Just to satisfy my curiousity about how many D users think that the del

Re: TDPL notes, part 2

2010-07-15 Thread Yao G.
Weren't you leaving for good this list? On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:10:03 -0500, retard wrote: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:51:55 -0400, bearophile wrote: P 61: this is so hard to read that I don't want to see anything similar even in small script-like programs. The D compiler can even disallow such long

Re: Anybody else working on an advanced Windows GUI

2010-07-14 Thread Yao G.
OK. Thanks. I'll let you know when everything is ready. Yao G. On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:45:58 -0500, BLS wrote: On 14/07/2010 02:44, Yao G. wrote: http://win32-framework.sourceforge.net/overview.htm That's an interesting library. Lots of cool ideas. I have a Bitbucket reposito

Re: Anybody else working on an advanced Windows GUI

2010-07-13 Thread Yao G.
ased on this control: http://www.viksoe.dk/code/propertylist.htm Just give me a few days so I can do some cleanup and then we can exchange ideas and code. Yao G. On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:50:17 -0500, BLS wrote: On 14/07/2010 00:58, Yao G. wrote: I'm doing some funky controls (Visual S

Re: Anybody else working on an advanced Windows GUI

2010-07-13 Thread Yao G.
I'm doing some funky controls (Visual Studio-like property sheet, etc.). On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:48:54 -0500, wrote: On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:26:20 -0500, BLS wrote: ??? I mean docking, tabbed MDI, advanced data bound hierarchical grids (using active records, and Enterprise patterns ), cha

Re: Status of std.xml (D2/Phobos)

2010-06-27 Thread Yao G.
seeing the debacle caused by the Date module, I think it would be a bad idea to release it. Yao G. On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:34:30 -0500, Justin Johansson wrote: May I ask is anybody working on redeveloping std.xml in the D2/Phobos library? (Currently it looks like it needs to be started over

Re: The X Macro

2010-06-24 Thread Yao G.
:'( On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:55:52 -0500, Walter Bright wrote: Yao G. wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ciq5w/the_x_macro/ I hope I don't screw up this time :D Autobanned again, sigh. -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

Re: The X Macro

2010-06-24 Thread Yao G.
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ciq5w/the_x_macro/ I hope I don't screw up this time :D On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:10:35 -0500, Walter Bright wrote: http://www.drdobbs.com/blog/archives/2010/06/the_x_macro.html Even though D doesn't have a text macro preprocessor, this can be do

Re: Constrained Templates

2010-06-14 Thread Yao G.
:D That's weird. I just filled some typical form controls and clicked submit. No "autoban" button was clicked. Yao G. On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:05:04 -0500, Walter Bright wrote: Yao G. wrote: It is now displayed in the front page. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ On S

Re: Constrained Templates

2010-06-13 Thread Yao G.
It is now displayed in the front page. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:42:13 -0500, Walter Bright wrote: Yao G. wrote: Maybe I did something wrong at the moment I submitted the article. :( I sent an email to the reddit moderators asking what's up with

Re: Constrained Templates

2010-06-13 Thread Yao G.
Maybe I did something wrong at the moment I submitted the article. :( Somebody else should try to submit it too. On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:15:25 -0500, Walter Bright wrote: Yao G. wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cel4o/constrained_templates_in_the_d_programming/ Thanks

Re: Constrained Templates

2010-06-13 Thread Yao G.
template constraints, is the ability to show text messages, like when static if is used. Yao G. On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:36:14 -0500, Leandro Lucarella wrote: Walter Bright, el 13 de junio a las 12:01 me escribiste: http://www.drdobbs.com/blog/archives/2010/06/constrained_tem.html Anyone want

Re: Constrained Templates

2010-06-13 Thread Yao G.
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cel4o/constrained_templates_in_the_d_programming/ On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:01:16 -0500, Walter Bright wrote: http://www.drdobbs.com/blog/archives/2010/06/constrained_tem.html Anyone want to do the honors and post to reddit, ycombinator, etc. ?

Re: Marketing of D - article topic ideas?

2010-06-08 Thread Yao G.
:D Wow. This troll is getting increasingly desperate. Now it resorts to straw man. On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:53:41 -0500, retard wrote: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:14:51 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 06/08/2010 04:05 PM, Walter Bright wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 06/08/2010 01:27 PM

Re: Wide characters support in D

2010-06-08 Thread Yao G.
Every time you reply to somebody, a new message is created. Is kinda difficult to follow this discussion when you need to look more than 15 separated messages about the same issue. Please check your news client or something. Yao G. On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:11:34 -0500, Ruslan Nikolaev

Re: If you have to learn just one programming language

2010-05-31 Thread Yao G.
Thanks for another trolling post of yours. :rolleyes: Weren't you supposed to stop posting? On Mon, 31 May 2010 10:43:36 -0500, retard wrote: I'm not sure if bearophile or some other language advocate posted this already, but: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/c3p8e/ if_you_have_

Re: What is D?

2010-05-08 Thread Yao G.
Hello retard, are you still conducting your "social experiment" in this group? I thought that you had given up! On Sat, 08 May 2010 01:17:55 -0500, GirlProgrammer wrote: D is an exercise in futility. D is melanoma. D is melodrama. D is a waste of time and effort. D is vindication for Tom

Re: Is it time to deprecate COM compatibility through D interfaces?

2010-04-13 Thread Yao G.
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:29:24 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Given that structs have become extremely powerful, and with the advent of opDispatch, would it be possible to deprecate supporting COM via D interfaces in favor of a library solution? There are some crappy drawbacks for havi

Re: Is it time to deprecate COM compatibility through D interfaces?

2010-04-13 Thread Yao G.
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:29:24 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Given that structs have become extremely powerful, and with the advent of opDispatch, would it be possible to deprecate supporting COM via D interfaces in favor of a library solution? There are some crappy drawbacks for havi