Re: Four things

2009-03-31 Thread bearophile
Rainer Deyke: > However, I'm not sure what advantage a built-in type would provide over a > library type.< Some C++ libs show that you can implement some of the optimizations I was talking about (present in Fortran compilers, that juggle, split, merge and slice nested for loops in various ways

Re: Four things

2009-03-31 Thread Rainer Deyke
bearophile wrote: > C# has arrays of arrays as D, plus it has built-in multidimensional > arrays too: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa288453(VS.71).aspx They > have some advantages: - On them the compiler can use some extra > optimizations, common in all Fortran compilers. D seems a la

Re: Four things

2009-03-31 Thread Jarrett Billingsley
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:31 PM, bearophile wrote: > > Java has tons of standard exceptions, you can see some of them humorously > explained here: > http://rymden.nu/exceptions.html > I don't need hundreds of different exceptions organized in a deep tree, but I > have felt the need to define few

Four things

2009-03-31 Thread bearophile
In this post I list four random things I have seen/found lately. Some of them may be interesting for the development of D. C# has arrays of arrays as D, plus it has built-in multidimensional arrays too: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa288453(VS.71).aspx They have some advantages: - On t