Paul D. Anderson Wrote:
> It's awfully quiet on the newsgroup today. Does that mean Walter is busy
> getting the new release ready?
> Or does it only mean I'm not getting new posts :(
> Suspiciously,
>
> Paul
http://erdani.org/
Andrei sustains his dissertation defense today. Maybe Walter is a
Don Wrote:
> However, the syntax is really not the issue. The issue is, is there
> sufficient need for a power operator (of any syntax)?
std.math.pow only support floating point number
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2973
If we can't make the power function more powerful, yes, we n
Walter Bright Wrote:
> One way is to simply add a "property" attribute keyword:
>
>property bool empty() { ... }
>property void empty(bool b) { ... }
>
> The problem is that:
>
> 1. there are a lot of keywords already
> 2. keywords are global things
Have you thought about reusing existi
Walter Bright Wrote:
> but oops! That defines a field. So we came up with essentially a hack:
>
>bool empty{}
weird syntax
I'd rather use
bool empty=() { ... }
void empty=(bool b) { ... }
Chad J Wrote:
> Zhenyu Zhou wrote:
> >
> > What about:
> >
> > class Widget
> > {
> > Rectangle _rect;
> > immutable(Rectangle) rect() const { return _rect; }
> > Rectangle rect(Rectangle r) { return _rect = r; }
> > }
>
Chad J Wrote:
> Currently there are some cases where the current paradigm forces you to
> do that kind of work by hand:
>
> struct Rectangle
> {
> float x,y,w,h;
> }
> class Widget
> {
> Rectangle _rect;
> Rectangle rect() { return _rect; }
> Rectangle rect(Rectangle r) { r
Daniel Keep Wrote:
> Maybe the compiler could rewrite the above as:
>
> auto t = a.b;
> t.c = 3;
> a.b = t;
>
> Unless it can prove it doesn't need to. Same solution as to the op=
> conundrum.
I think b should be const if it is a temporary object.
And the compiler will tell you that a.b.c is
