On Monday, 19 November 2018 at 17:18:14 UTC, John Chapman wrote:
1) task()
Thanks, that helped.
On Monday, 19 November 2018 at 16:10:15 UTC, helxi wrote:
...
Oh wait never mind I was missing a bracket:
auto proc = task!(ddCall.dd());
Now I have another thing to worry about: ddcall.dd() cannot be
read at compile time.
I want to create a task out of an object's method. My Class is:
public class Calldd
{
private:
const string tmpFileName = "/tmp/nixwriter.progress.txt";
string deviceName, sourceFileName;
public:
this(in string sourceFileName, in string deviceName)
{
this.sourceFileName
On Saturday, 10 November 2018 at 15:54:07 UTC, JN wrote:
On Saturday, 10 November 2018 at 15:05:38 UTC, helxi wrote:
Hi. I have not done any multi-threaded programming before.
What I basically want is to read into the output of a long
shellExecute function each second.
In details, I am
On Monday, 12 November 2018 at 16:25:13 UTC, Rene Zwanenburg
wrote:
Idk where you got that syntax from, but there's no syntactic
difference between calling normal functions and function
pointers:
import std.stdio;
import std.concurrency;
import core.thread;
void worker(int firstNumber) {
On Monday, 12 November 2018 at 16:08:28 UTC, helxi wrote:
Line 12 was meant to print 1234.
Line 13 was meant to print 1234 too, but for a different reason.
Correction, it was meant to print 12304. My bad.
As far as I understand, calling a function pointer with an
argument in D looks like:
call(, argTofn0, argTofn1, argTofn3);
This immediately struck me a very weak syntax to me so I decided
to explore my concerns.
I made a function pointer that takes an indefinite number of
arguments.
Hi. I have not done any multi-threaded programming before. What I
basically want is to read into the output of a long shellExecute
function each second.
In details, I am calling shellExecute("pkexec dd if=/path/to/file
of=/dev/sdx status=progress && sync");
It's a long running process and dd
On Thursday, 8 November 2018 at 15:41:11 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Thursday, 8 November 2018 at 15:08:40 UTC, helxi wrote:
Shouldn't the catch block in the function catch the exception?
You caught Exception, but it throws Error. They have separate
inheritance trees.
The common ancestor
How does exception work? I am inside a function that calls a
constructor. Inside the constructor, an exception is thrown.
However even though I have wrapped the body of the function
inside a try/catch block, the program crashes from inside that
constructor. Shouldn't the catch block in the
On Tuesday, 30 October 2018 at 14:38:53 UTC, Michelle Long wrote:
On Sunday, 13 March 2016 at 19:28:57 UTC, karabuta wrote:
Gtk3 from python3 has got I nice book with examples that are
not so advanced but enough to get you doing real work(from a
beginner point of view). GtkD seem to have
On Sunday, 13 March 2016 at 19:28:57 UTC, karabuta wrote:
Gtk3 from python3 has got I nice book with examples that are
not so advanced but enough to get you doing real work(from a
beginner point of view). GtkD seem to have changed the API
structure compared to python3 Gtk3 and the demo
On Sunday, 30 September 2018 at 03:19:11 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Saturday, 29 September 2018 at 23:46:26 UTC, helxi wrote:
Thanks. Would you say
https://dlang.org/library/std/encoding/get_bom.html is useful
in this context?
Eh, not really, most text files will not have one.
Hi,
I
On Saturday, 29 September 2018 at 16:01:18 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
On Saturday, 29 September 2018 at 15:52:30 UTC, helxi wrote:
I'm writing a utility that checks for specific keyword(s)
found in the files in a given directory recursively. What's
the best strategy to avoid opening a bin file
I'm writing a utility that checks for specific keyword(s) found
in the files in a given directory recursively. What's the best
strategy to avoid opening a bin file or some sort of garbage
dump? Check encoding of the given file?
If so, what are the most popular encodings (in POSIX if that
On Friday, 10 April 2015 at 18:42:20 UTC, Timothee Cour wrote:
Nim looks very promising.
Is there any comprehensive comparison against D somewhere (if
possible
recent) ?
Nim is way more expressive than D afaik. Consider the following
imaginary function:
proc fn[A : int | float; N; B :
On Monday, 9 April 2018 at 15:59:32 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
On Monday, 9 April 2018 at 07:07:58 UTC, Chris Katko wrote:
[...]
I agree in general, but in this case it's actually completely
doable. In fact, I've done it myself: check out 'sumtype' on
code.dlang.org. You can replace
import std.variant, core.stdc.stdio;
Algebraic!(T, string) fib_nth(T)(T n)
{
return n % 15
? n % 5
? n % 3
? Algebraic!(T, string)(n)
: Algebraic!(T, string)("Fizz")
: Algebraic!(T,
On Thursday, 29 March 2018 at 14:10:39 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Jared Hanson (a.k.a Meta and MetaLang around these parts) was
inspired by an article titled "std::visit is everything wrong
with modern C++" to contrast it with D's std.variant.visit. The
result is this well-written post for the D
For reference: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/optional
On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 20:52:54 UTC, extrawurst wrote:
Hey folks,
libui is a crossplatform GUI lib written in C. This makes it a
perfect candidate to be used in D!
What they say about libui on their site:
"Simple and portable (but not inflexible) GUI library in C that
uses the native
On Saturday, 30 December 2017 at 15:00:32 UTC, helxi wrote:
As an exercise in http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/pointers.html, I
was implementing a very stripped down version of singly linked
list like below:
struct Node(T)
{
T item;
Node!T* next_item;
}
[...]
Correction, I meant:
If I
As an exercise in http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/pointers.html, I was
implementing a very stripped down version of singly linked list
like below:
struct Node(T)
{
T item;
Node!T* next_item;
}
string to_string(T)(in Node!T node)
{
import std.format;
return node.nextItem ? "%s ->
Hi, Is there any blogs that discuss CRTP, or even Policy
based/introspection based design in idiomatic D?
I would love to see the strategies used to tackle the overhead
involving dynamic dispatch by emulating static polymorphism.
Thanks.
On Friday, 8 December 2017 at 15:40:08 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
On 12/7/17 8:11 PM, Mengu wrote:
On Thursday, 7 December 2017 at 22:39:44 UTC, Daniel Kozak
wrote:
The other slowdown is caused by concatenation. Because
std::string += is more simillar to std.array.(Ref)Appender
wait, i
1. How can I separate class methods from the declaration block?
And how can I implement them in a separate module?
module frame;
class Test
{
public:
int x;
this();
}
Test.this()
{
x = 34;
} // does not work
In this scenario I would like to take the constructor to a
On Wednesday, 6 December 2017 at 10:00:48 UTC, Biotronic wrote:
On Wednesday, 6 December 2017 at 09:12:08 UTC, helxi wrote:
[...]
Here's my version:, based on fast squaring:
auto fib(ulong n) {
import std.bigint : BigInt;
import std.meta : AliasSeq;
import std.typecons : tuple;
On Tuesday, 5 December 2017 at 18:38:06 UTC, aberba wrote:
On Saturday, 2 December 2017 at 08:17:24 UTC, helxi wrote:
[...]
I wanted to do this using some examples I have whilst learning
it.
Its at the bottom of my list of things I love to do. its not
difficult though. It's quite close to
This is question not directly related to language concepts, it's
got more to do with the application. I would appreciate if anyone
would point to me how I could optimize this bit of code
auto fib(const int n)
{
import std.bigint;
if (n == 0)
return BigInt(0);
Why can't enums be used as types in this (simplified) example?
enum Positivity
{
Positive,
Negative
}
struct Wave
{
public:
Positivity slope;
}
enum Waves
{
Sin = Wave(Positivity.Positive),
Cos = Wave(Positivity.Negative)
}
int nth_value(T : Waves)(int
On Sunday, 15 October 2017 at 20:18:37 UTC, Mike Wey wrote:
GtkD is a D binding and OO wrapper of Gtk+ and is released on
the LGPL license.
Apart form the biannual update to the latest glib/gtk version,
this release adds bindings for Gstreamer Mpegts and Gstreamer
AppSink.
Full changelog:
1. Template specialisation.
Why is this useful?:
T getResponse(T = int)(string question); And how does it differ
from
int getResponse(string question); ?
Context: http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/templates.html : Section:
"Default template parameters"
2. "Generic locking".
Is it possible to
On Thursday, 30 November 2017 at 06:44:43 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Thursday, November 30, 2017 06:29:43 helxi via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
[]
I don't understand the question. You're asking whether casting
from a base class to a derived class creates overhead? Or are
you asking
1. Why are imports visible from outside the package when you do
selective imports?
//mod.d
module mod;
import std.stdio : writeln;
public void greet()
{
writeln("Hello");
}
//app.d
import mod;
void main()
{
mod.greet();
writeln("You should not be seeing this.");
}
On Wednesday, 15 November 2017 at 09:34:32 UTC, helxi wrote:
On Wednesday, 15 November 2017 at 09:23:53 UTC, Jonathan M
Davis wrote:
On Wednesday, November 15, 2017 09:04:50 helxi via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
Hi. What function signature should I use for receiving a
constant
reference of an r
On Wednesday, 15 November 2017 at 09:23:53 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Wednesday, November 15, 2017 09:04:50 helxi via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
Hi. What function signature should I use for receiving a
constant
reference of an r/l value object? Is it auto fn(inout ref const
myClass obj
Hi. What function signature should I use for receiving a constant
reference of an r/l value object? Is it auto fn(inout ref const
myClass obj)?
I want to:
1. Take a constant reference of the object, not copy them
2. The object itself may be const or non const.
struct Fraction
{
private:
int numerator = 1, denominator = 1;
public:
string opCast(T : string)() const
{
import std.conv : to;
return numerator.to!string() ~ "/" ~ denominator.to!string();
}
}
void main()
{
import
I would like to open a pull request in
https://github.com/langserver/langserver.github.io to include
serve-d (https://github.com/Pure-D/serve-d). However I would like
to know which of the following is provided by any of DCD and
Dscanner and whether it's implemented:
Formatting => dfmt
import std.stdio, std.datetime, std.conv, std.algorithm;
void main()
{
immutable DEADLINE = DateTime(2017, 7, 16, 23, 59,
59).to!SysTime;
immutable NOW = Clock.currTime;
immutable INTERVAL = (DEADLINE - NOW)
.abs
.to!string;
First off, let me admit that I am no expert on Garbage
Collector Technology or Language implementation. I made this
thread only to know if there is any attempt being done to improve
the current GC's efficiency.
As the Garbage Collection techniques are becoming more
efficient, how is
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 00:21:44 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
On 07/05/2017 04:38 PM, helxi wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Oh thank you. Just 2 follow-up questions:
>> [...]
> 1. In the last example of reccurence, what does n in (a,n)
refer to?
n is "the index of the current value". Each time the lambda
On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 10:34:22 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote:
On 06/26/2017 11:51 AM, helxi wrote:
[...]
`a` is a tuple of the run-time arguments you pass to
`sequence`. In this example, no arguments are passed (empty
parens at the end of the call), so `a` is empty.
[...]
a[0] = 1
a[1] = 2
Can someone give me a very watered-down explanation of what
std.range's recurrence! and sequence! do?
auto tri = sequence!((a,n) => n*(n+1)/2)();
/** okay, it's a triangular number array
* I understand n is the index number, the nth term
* However where does this 'a' go?
*/
auto odds =
Is it possible to sum an array in O(1)?
On Sunday, 11 June 2017 at 12:49:51 UTC, Cym13 wrote:
print each line
byLine doesn't reall all input at once. Using byline and take
you are effectively reading only the right amount of lines and
not reading the rest. You already have what you want, what
makes you think the contrary?
Oh it
On Sunday, 11 June 2017 at 06:28:18 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote:
On Sunday, 11 June 2017 at 05:36:08 UTC, helxi wrote:
I was writing a program that reads and prints the first nth
lines to the stdout:
import std.stdio;
void main(string[] args)
{
import std.algorithm, std.range;
import
I was writing a program that reads and prints the first nth lines
to the stdout:
import std.stdio;
void main(string[] args)
{
import std.algorithm, std.range;
import std.conv;
stdin.byLine.take(args[1].to!ulong).each!writeln;
}
As far as I understand the
On Sunday, 28 May 2017 at 22:14:46 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Sunday, 28 May 2017 at 22:07:12 UTC, helxi wrote:
So I tried using C's EOF but the types aren't compatible since
EOF is probably aliased to -1
The readln docs for D say it returns null on end of file. The
example given is:
Hello, I just wrote a mock-up of Unix's $cat. However unlike the
actual $cat, when input interrupt (Cntrl+D) is pressed the
following program does not stop.
So I tried using C's EOF but the types aren't compatible since
EOF is probably aliased to -1
//...
if (args.length < 2)
{
What's the difference between
1.
string x = "abcd";
foreach(character; x)
write(character);
and
string x = "abcd";
foreach(character; x[0..$])
write(character);
2. is and ==
3. pointer and address and reference?
On Wednesday, 4 May 2016 at 13:51:13 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
ok I asked in the IRC right now. There is a plugins directory
where it dynamically loads it from. However nobody in there
actually knew how to do it with anything else than Python.
Gonna try to get it to work somehow
Have you made
I was looking for ways to find the largest common substring
between two given substrings and have learnt
1. .length is of type ulong
2. writing string[int] will not give me a sorted array
3. ulong cannot be sorted by sorted
What's the trick to sort the associative array by their keys?
Code
On Sunday, 12 March 2017 at 07:58:40 UTC, helxi wrote:
return def;
I meant
return arg_array;
How would an experienced programmer declare an associative array
of strings that has 2 keys?
My initial impression was string[string][2] my_array; which does
not seem to work.
Here is a snippet of the code I am working on:
import std.string;
import std.stdio;
string[string] change(ref
Any vim users here? I've been trying to set up Vim to get started
with D. I was going to install Dutyl plugin but DCD is not
working.
Neovim's deoplete-d doesn't seem to work either. I'm not sure
about how to set up importpath. Can anyone share .vimrc?
Also, if anyone gave me a step by step
On Saturday, 25 February 2017 at 14:34:31 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
On 26/02/2017 3:31 AM, helxi wrote:
I am trying to create an array which has a user defined size.
However
the following program is not compiling:
import std.stdio;
void main(){
write("Enter your array size: ");
I am trying to create an array which has a user defined size.
However the following program is not compiling:
import std.stdio;
void main(){
write("Enter your array size: ");
int n;
readf(" %s", );
int[n] arr; //<-Error: variable input cannot be read at
compile time
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