On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 13:43:20 UTC, user1234 wrote:
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 20:14:17 UTC, Meta wrote:
The functionality is probably a good idea, but a library
solution is doable today without any acrobatics.
Show me a library solution that works fine with IDE completion
(so for
On Monday, 13 November 2017 at 14:44:55 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote:
The commenting out case can be prevented by making ?: an actual
operator, so ?/**/: would be an error.
Yes, that sounds reasonable.
(Also I think it's regressive to argue invalid code becoming
valid is a good reason to prevent
On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 05:20:39 UTC, codephantom wrote:
I just saw this about the new 'damnit' operator, for C# 8.
https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/issues/556
The principle is a good one - by default you cannot dereference
something that can be null, you get a compiler error ins
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 13:02:43 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 10:12:11 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
All it does is take the expression
x ? x : y
and make it
x ?: y
Yes, that is an issue because it means that typos no longer are
caught. E.g. if you acc
On Sunday, 12 November 2017 at 16:47:02 UTC, bauss wrote:
I told you once and I'll tell you twice.
I'm definitely not a MSFT fan boy.
The only thing I have in my development environment that's
related to MS is their linker from Visual Studio, but I don't
have anything else installed from VS.
On Sunday, 12 November 2017 at 16:47:02 UTC, bauss wrote:
I told you once and I'll tell you twice.
I'm definitely not a MSFT fan boy.
Well, you were pretty quick to jump into the middle of a
conversation, just to have a long..drawn outgo at me, because
I had some critical comments to s
On Sunday, 12 November 2017 at 04:40:21 UTC, codephantom wrote:
On Sunday, 12 November 2017 at 01:00:46 UTC, bauss wrote:
I'm tired so I will end my post here.
And I'm going to end all my posts here, cause I'm sick of
arguing with MSFT fanboys, who want to restrain D's development
by tying i
On Sunday, 12 November 2017 at 08:59:05 UTC, Satoshi wrote:
It's for you!
https://i.imgur.com/NNgrSyP.png
If you're actually taking bets on that...then put me down for
$10_000.00
on the MSFT fanbois that is ;-)
Nice stuff with Trinix. I'll cross you off my list of
fanboys...for now.
It's for you!
https://i.imgur.com/NNgrSyP.png
On Sunday, 12 November 2017 at 08:33:34 UTC, Satoshi wrote:
I'm going to start focusing my attention on rewriting (some)
of FreeBSD userland, using D ..and see what happens. (btw.
such programs can easily be migrated to Linux/OSX too...or the
new 'System D' ..when it arrives ;-)
You should s
On Sunday, 12 November 2017 at 04:40:21 UTC, codephantom wrote:
On Sunday, 12 November 2017 at 01:00:46 UTC, bauss wrote:
I'm tired so I will end my post here.
And I'm going to end all my posts here, cause I'm sick of
arguing with MSFT fanboys, who want to restrain D's development
by tying i
On Sunday, 12 November 2017 at 03:25:47 UTC, codephantom wrote:
But everyone wants a more modular, more refined, more modern,
more secure operating system ...and a more secure systems
programming language.
How rewriting Linux from scratch will enhance security of the OS?
By introducing more
On Sunday, 12 November 2017 at 01:00:46 UTC, bauss wrote:
I'm tired so I will end my post here.
And I'm going to end all my posts here, cause I'm sick of arguing
with MSFT fanboys, who want to restrain D's development by tying
it into propriatery, closed source, bloatware.
I'm going to star
On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 12:53:46 UTC, Satoshi wrote:
Yeah, stop duplicating what's out there and start writing
similar software what already exists. Sounds great.
And every man, women... and their 2 dogs...are targetting mobile,
web, cloud these days.
The idea that D is going to com
On Sunday, 12 November 2017 at 01:00:46 UTC, bauss wrote:
On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 05:20:39 UTC, codephantom
wrote:
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 05:23:53 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
MSFT spends a LOT of time studying these things. It would be
wise to learn for free from the money they s
On Sunday, 12 November 2017 at 01:00:46 UTC, bauss wrote:
and btw. if you had gone back a few threads (instead of just
jumping into a conversation to just have a go at me), then
you'd know that it all started because i attempted to inject
some humour into the converstation, and used a youtube v
On Sunday, 12 November 2017 at 01:00:46 UTC, bauss wrote:
and btw. if you had gone back a few threads (instead of just
jumping into a conversation to just have a go at me), then
you'd know that it all started because i attempted to inject
some humour into the converstation, and used a youtube v
On Sunday, 12 November 2017 at 01:00:46 UTC, bauss wrote:
I'm tired so I will end my post here.
Great contribution btw.
I might actually read it when i have nothing else to do...which
will be a long way off...
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 23:14:50 UTC, codephantom wrote:
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 11:19:39 UTC, Satoshi wrote:
You are judging C#, but looks where is D and where is C#.
Where is C#?
In about 50% of the corporations doing enterprise programming.
- good luck porting it to othe
On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 12:53:46 UTC, Satoshi wrote:
Yeah, stop duplicating what's out there and start writing
similar software what already exists. Sounds great.
Where is the secure, modular operating system, written in a safe
language?
And a language that you can use for the res
On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 12:53:46 UTC, Satoshi wrote:
Yeah, stop duplicating what's out there and start writing
similar software what already exists. Sounds great.
Dude.. I can only assume you're very young.
Why do you think C took off as it did?
It wasn't because people spent hours
On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 16:45:11 UTC, 12345swordy wrote:
On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 02:34:11 UTC, codephantom
wrote:
On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 01:37:01 UTC, 12345swordy
wrote:
You should take your own advice first, when you insult other
people by calling them "Microsoft fa
On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 02:34:11 UTC, codephantom wrote:
On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 01:37:01 UTC, 12345swordy
wrote:
You should take your own advice first, when you insult other
people by calling them "Microsoft fanboys". Take your snark
somewhere else.
I'm just dishing out wha
On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 02:30:50 UTC, codephantom wrote:
On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 01:37:01 UTC, 12345swordy
wrote:
A supported and very popular language. Seriously in it the top
ten popular language list for a good reason. You should google
it.
I don't have to google it. I've
On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 11:18:24 UTC, codephantom wrote:
Yeah, integrating gui's into a programming language is
complexthere are some gui kits for D in github, but none I
find compelling at this stage - even though they're authors are
doing a great job.
It's not that it's too com
On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 11:18:24 UTC, codephantom wrote:
I'd like D to think bigger than just duplicating what's out
there, and being 'compatible' with this and that operating
system
- or just be marketed as a quicker way to compile your slow
c++ code.
I'd wouldn't mind seeing a n
On 11/11/2017 11:18 AM, codephantom wrote:
On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 09:47:32 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote:
Indeed, the strength of D is that it is portable among the big
platforms remaining. One of its drawbacks can be seen somehow as an
asset. Its lack of preferred GUI kit means that it
On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 09:47:32 UTC, Patrick Schluter
wrote:
Indeed, the strength of D is that it is portable among the big
platforms remaining. One of its drawbacks can be seen somehow
as an asset. Its lack of preferred GUI kit means that it is not
intimately bound to the user interf
On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 03:49:24 UTC, codephantom wrote:
On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 01:37:01 UTC, 12345swordy
wrote:
You should take your own advice first, when you insult other
people by calling them "Microsoft fanboys". Take your snark
somewhere else.
and btw. if you had gone
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 05:23:53 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
MSFT spends a LOT of time studying these things. It would be
wise to learn for free from the money they spent.
I just saw this about the new 'damnit' operator, for C# 8.
https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/issues/556
I thought i
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 05:23:53 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
MSFT spends a LOT of time studying these things. It would be
wise to learn for free from the money they spent.
This is valid MSFT code, I believe:
A?.B?.C?[0] ?? E
A?.B?.C?[0] == E
I have been coding on and off, since 1992, in va
On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 01:37:01 UTC, 12345swordy wrote:
You should take your own advice first, when you insult other
people by calling them "Microsoft fanboys". Take your snark
somewhere else.
and btw. if you had gone back a few threads (instead of just
jumping into a conversation t
On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 01:37:01 UTC, 12345swordy wrote:
best'), or ('cause the language I'm used to using has it').
You should take your own advice first, when you insult other
people by calling them "Microsoft fanboys". Take your snark
somewhere else.
Any opinion/idea offered by so
On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 01:37:01 UTC, 12345swordy wrote:
You should take your own advice first, when you insult other
people by calling them "Microsoft fanboys". Take your snark
somewhere else.
I'm just dishing out what they've been doing to me, simply cause
I dared to critcise somet
On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 01:37:01 UTC, 12345swordy wrote:
A supported and very popular language. Seriously in it the top
ten popular language list for a good reason. You should google
it.
I don't have to google it. I've been using it for 17 years.
- VS.NET does most of the coding for
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 23:14:50 UTC, codephantom wrote:
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 11:19:39 UTC, Satoshi wrote:
You are judging C#, but looks where is D and where is C#.
Where is C#?
A supported and very popular language. Seriously in it the top
ten popular language list for a go
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 11:19:39 UTC, Satoshi wrote:
You are judging C#, but looks where is D and where is C#.
Where is C#?
- good luck porting it to other (non MS, non .NET environments).
- performance of large code bases can often be sluggish
- VS.NET does most of the coding for you.
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 12:25:06 UTC, Biotronic wrote:
I find I often use this in C# with a more complex expression on
the left-hand side, like a function call. A quick search shows
more than 2/3 of my uses are function calls or otherwise
significantly more complex than a variable. Also,
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 19:59:29 UTC, meppl wrote:
I wonder what Mr. Bright and Mr. Alexandrescu would say about
the request to implement both, `??` and `?:`.
Seriously? Implement both?
I'm really not sure whether that's just meant to be humour or
what.
The first things that should b
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 14:37:13 UTC, bauss wrote:
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 12:48:53 UTC, codephantom wrote:
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 12:42:55 UTC, Satoshi wrote:
99% of Windows users couldn't find how to do basic stuff in
Linux ..
yeah.. imagine if I had said that...all he
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 19:59:29 UTC, meppl wrote:
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 05:23:53 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
On 11/6/17 12:20, Michael wrote:
I can't quite see why this proposal is such a big deal to
people - as
has been restated, it's just a quick change in the parser for
a sligh
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 05:23:53 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
On 11/6/17 12:20, Michael wrote:
I can't quite see why this proposal is such a big deal to
people - as
has been restated, it's just a quick change in the parser for
a slight
contraction in the code, and nothing language-breaking, i
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 05:23:53 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
On 11/6/17 12:20, Michael wrote:
[...]
You're right, I didn't, that was intentional, because sometimes
people write things like that. And it took a while for anyone
to say anything about it. That is my point.
But that's the th
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 12:48:53 UTC, codephantom wrote:
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 12:42:55 UTC, Satoshi wrote:
99% of Windows users couldn't find how to do basic stuff in
Linux ..
yeah.. imagine if I had said that...all hell would have broken
loose.
And 99% of Linux users don't
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 10:51:28 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
Based on other posts that you've made, you seem interested in
bashing anything related to Windows or Microsoft, and that
really isn't productive when we're trying to have a technical
discussion.
- Jonathan M Davis
And I se
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 12:51:04 UTC, codephantom wrote:
So making a joke about MSFT excuses you and others to start
bashing on me?
Really. That is more of a joke.
ohh..anyone don't know what MSFT fanboy is?
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Microsoft%20Fanboy
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 12:42:55 UTC, Satoshi wrote:
You didn't say anything negative about MSFT you just start
making jokes about it.
Then get rect and start crying and saying you did not troll.
I'm not MSFT fanboy, I just find some of the C# features
useful, nothing more.
So making
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 12:42:55 UTC, Satoshi wrote:
99% of Windows users couldn't find how to do basic stuff in
Linux ..
yeah.. imagine if I had said that...all hell would have broken
loose.
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 12:42:55 UTC, Satoshi wrote:
You didn't say anything negative about MSFT you just start
making jokes about it.
ok. note taken. no jokes about msft allowed on D forums.
got it.
thanks for your input Satoshi.
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 12:27:22 UTC, codephantom wrote:
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 11:55:52 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
[...]
Well, you just got it wrong, and your comments were unfair, and
actually, your comment were 'bashing' on me!
I simply used a humourous youtube video, as
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 12:23:06 UTC, Satoshi wrote:
I'm comparing C# to D because D is trying to do the same stuff
as C#. GUI development and website development. I used vibe.d,
I used ASP.NET core and I'm still missing some C# features in
D. So I'm sharing my experience and expectation
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 11:55:52 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
I "had a go at you," because it seemed like you were bashing on
Adam for suggesting that we look at what C# had done and what
research Microsoft had done simply because it was Microsoft
that had done it. You have been bashing
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 12:06:42 UTC, codephantom wrote:
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 11:45:25 UTC, Satoshi wrote:
How many corporations is using D right now? 10?
Windows is still dominant OS and there are a lot of job
opportunities for C#.
D is unusable for startups or corporations
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 11:45:25 UTC, Satoshi wrote:
How many corporations is using D right now? 10?
Windows is still dominant OS and there are a lot of job
opportunities for C#.
D is unusable for startups or corporations where are junior
programmers hired anyway because it's too comp
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 11:45:25 UTC, Satoshi wrote:
Nobody is trying to silent you, you just started trolling there.
Bullshit!
I tried to inject some humour into the discussion. I thought that
was pretty self-evident.
The MSFT fanboys on these forums, which seem to completely lack
On Friday, November 10, 2017 11:39:48 codephantom via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 10:51:28 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
>
> wrote:
> > Shooting down an idea just because it comes from Microsoft (or
> > any other company) rather than judging it on its technical
> > merits is just
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 11:26:41 UTC, codephantom wrote:
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 11:19:39 UTC, Satoshi wrote:
You are judging C#
Umm... I have 17y in C# programming. Was one of the first to
take it up.
Have designed/developed apps for large corporates.
Umm... My old colleague
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 10:51:28 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
Shooting down an idea just because it comes from Microsoft (or
any other company) rather than judging it on its technical
merits is just bad policy. Ideas should be judged based on
their own merit, not simply on where they cam
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 11:19:39 UTC, Satoshi wrote:
You are judging C#
Umm... I have 17y in C# programming. Was one of the first to take
it up.
Have designed/developed apps for large corporates.
Yet, I switched from C# to D.
I don't think looking to MSFT for programming language ad
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 11:12:38 UTC, codephantom wrote:
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 10:51:28 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
we're trying to have a technical discussion.
- Jonathan M Davis
And will someone please tell me, where is technical benefit of
putting this crap (?: or ??) int
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 10:51:28 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
we're trying to have a technical discussion.
- Jonathan M Davis
And will someone please tell me, where is technical benefit of
putting this crap (?: or ??) into a programming language?
After 8 pages of people rambling on a
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 08:24:59 UTC, codephantom wrote:
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 05:23:53 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
MSFT spends a LOT of time studying these things. It would be
wise to learn for free from the money they spent.
Is that the same company that made Windows 10?
Not ju
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 10:51:28 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
Shooting down an idea just because it comes from Microsoft (or
any other company) rather than judging it on its technical
merits is just bad policy. Ideas should be judged based on
their own merit, not simply on where they cam
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 10:51:28 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
merit, not simply on where they came from.
Based on other posts that you've made, you seem interested in
bashing anything related to Windows or Microsoft, and that
really isn't productive when we're trying to have a technica
On Friday, November 10, 2017 10:36:01 codephantom via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 10:24:01 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
> > And what?
>
> This Windows 10.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHG6fXEba0A
>
> You want us to look the MSFT on how things should be done??
In general
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 10:24:01 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
And what?
This Windows 10.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHG6fXEba0A
You want us to look the MSFT on how things should be done??
On 11/10/17 00:24, codephantom wrote:
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 05:23:53 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
MSFT spends a LOT of time studying these things. It would be wise to
learn for free from the money they spent.
Is that the same company that made Windows 10?
And what?
--
Adam Wilson
IRC: L
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 05:23:53 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
MSFT spends a LOT of time studying these things. It would be
wise to learn for free from the money they spent.
Is that the same company that made Windows 10?
On 11/6/17 12:20, Michael wrote:
I can't quite see why this proposal is such a big deal to people - as
has been restated, it's just a quick change in the parser for a slight
contraction in the code, and nothing language-breaking, it's not a big
change to the language at all.
On Monday, 6 Novembe
On Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 07:32:05 UTC, aberba wrote:
I have gone through all the threads and none of the comment
argues why we REALLY need Elvis in D. Seem to me like some kind
of "language peer influence" or something.
It can be done as a library and using ternary works (more
expre
On Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 07:32:05 UTC, aberba wrote:
I have gone through all the threads and none of the comment
argues why we REALLY need Elvis in D. Seem to me like some kind
of "language peer influence" or something.
Presumably, it's just a more 'elegant' (less verbose) way of
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 10:12:11 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Monday, November 06, 2017 09:26:24 Satoshi via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
[...]
_Everything_ that is added to the language complicates it
further. It's one more thing that everyone learning the
language has to learn and know an
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 13:43:20 UTC, user1234 wrote:
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 20:14:17 UTC, Meta wrote:
[...]
import std.stdio;
writeln(safeDeref(tree).right.right.val.orElse(-1));
writeln(safeDeref(tree).left.right.left.right.orElse(null));
writeln(safeDeref(tree).left.right.left.r
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 17:37:42 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 17:27:30 UTC, bauss wrote:
Which this operator has already proven to be in other
successful languages.
Not exactly this variation, but I get your point. On the other
hand, so has hundreds of
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 17:27:30 UTC, bauss wrote:
Which this operator has already proven to be in other
successful languages.
Not exactly this variation, but I get your point. On the other
hand, so has hundreds of other operators from other languages...
So which one should one not imp
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 16:32:50 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 14:08:07 UTC, bauss wrote:
I think we have a problem in this community to always bash
down things with "It can be solved as a library.", "I don't
see the value of this being added.", "I'm not
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 14:08:07 UTC, bauss wrote:
I think we have a problem in this community to always bash down
things with "It can be solved as a library.", "I don't see the
value of this being added.", "I'm not going to use this
feature, so nobody else will."
It is considered good
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 14:08:07 UTC, bauss wrote:
[snip]
However there's another idiom to D, which is what I'll call the
"high-level" idiom which is mostly people writing applications
with libraries such as vibe.d, which heavily relies on classes
and reference types passed around, rat
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 13:36:19 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 19:13:59 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
On 10/28/17 04:38, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
[...]
C# has extensive experience with this operator and I think it
would be wise to study the history of what they di
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 20:14:17 UTC, Meta wrote:
[...]
import std.stdio;
writeln(safeDeref(tree).right.right.val.orElse(-1));
writeln(safeDeref(tree).left.right.left.right.orElse(null));
writeln(safeDeref(tree).left.right.left.right.val.orElse(-1));
vs.
writeln(tree?. right?.right?.val ?
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 19:13:59 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
On 10/28/17 04:38, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
[...]
C# has extensive experience with this operator and I think it
would be wise to study the history of what they did and why the
did it. NOTE: I understand that other languages ha
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 09:42:50 UTC, Satoshi wrote:
I strongly agree with you.
As I wrote earlier int this thread. Kotlin has the `?.` operator
for the same reason. I honestly can't think of a more obvious
operator for that purpose...
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 19:13:59 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
On 10/28/17 04:38, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
[...]
C# has extensive experience with this operator and I think it
would be wise to study the history of what they did and why the
did it. NOTE: I understand that other languages ha
I can't quite see why this proposal is such a big deal to people
- as has been restated, it's just a quick change in the parser
for a slight contraction in the code, and nothing
language-breaking, it's not a big change to the language at all.
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 19:13:59 UTC, Adam Wi
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 19:55:13 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2017-11-06 20:40, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
I’d argue this NOT what we want. Nullability is best captured
in the typesystem even if in the form of Nullable!T.
Yeah, it would be better if the elvis operator good integrate
with
On 2017-11-06 20:40, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
I’d argue this NOT what we want. Nullability is best captured in the
typesystem even if in the form of Nullable!T.
Yeah, it would be better if the elvis operator good integrate with a
nullable/option type as well in addition to null.
--
/Jacob Ca
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 19:13:59 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
On 10/28/17 04:38, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Walter and I decided to kick-off project Elvis for adding the
homonym
operator to D.
Razvan Nitu has already done a good part of the work:
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7242
https
On 10/28/17 04:38, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Walter and I decided to kick-off project Elvis for adding the homonym
operator to D.
Razvan Nitu has already done a good part of the work:
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7242
https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/1917
https://github.com/dlang
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 10:12:11 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
All it does is take the expression
x ? x : y
and make it
x ?: y
Yes, that is an issue because it means that typos no longer are
caught. E.g. if you accidentally comment out or delete the second
expression.
Which is why I
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 10:12:11 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
x ? x : y
and make it
x ?: y
It saves 2 characters plus the length of the variable name.
That's it.
I find I often use this in C# with a more complex expression on
the left-hand side, like a function call. A quick search s
On 11/05/2017 07:20 PM, Neia Neutuladh wrote:
On Saturday, 28 October 2017 at 11:38:52 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Walter and I decided to kick-off project Elvis for adding the homonym
operator to D.
It's easy to write in function form:
auto orElse(T)(T a, lazy T b)
{
ret
On Monday, November 06, 2017 09:26:24 Satoshi via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Look, this operator does not break anything. If you don't want to
> use it, just don't, but why do you force everyone else to not to
> use it, just because it is not adding anything "more valuable"
> than just better syntax?
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 08:06:54 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Monday, November 06, 2017 07:10:43 bauss via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 00:20:09 UTC, Neia Neutuladh
wrote:
> On Saturday, 28 October 2017 at 11:38:52 UTC, Andrei
>
> Alexandrescu wrote:
>> [...]
>
>
On Monday, November 06, 2017 07:10:43 bauss via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 00:20:09 UTC, Neia Neutuladh wrote:
> > On Saturday, 28 October 2017 at 11:38:52 UTC, Andrei
> >
> > Alexandrescu wrote:
> >> Walter and I decided to kick-of
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 00:20:09 UTC, Neia Neutuladh wrote:
On Saturday, 28 October 2017 at 11:38:52 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
Walter and I decided to kick-off project Elvis for adding the
homonym operator to D.
It's easy to write in function form:
auto orElse(T)(T a, laz
On Saturday, 28 October 2017 at 11:38:52 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Walter and I decided to kick-off project Elvis for adding the
homonym operator to D.
It's easy to write in function form:
auto orElse(T)(T a, lazy T b)
{
return a ? a : b;
}
writeln(args[1].length.o
On Monday, 30 October 2017 at 19:46:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
I see from comments that different people think of it in a
different way. I suggest them to read this section from Kotlin
docs to understand the reasoning behind the elvis operator.
The principle of least astonishment indic
On Thursday, November 02, 2017 09:46:06 H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 12:50:47PM +, Nick Treleaven via Digitalmars-d
> wrote: [..]
>
> > I'd like to mention null-coalescing assignment syntax. Perl has `$a
> > //= $b`, and PHP has voted to support `$a ??= $b`, exp
On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 12:50:47PM +, Nick Treleaven via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
[..]
> I'd like to mention null-coalescing assignment syntax. Perl has `$a
> //= $b`, and PHP has voted to support `$a ??= $b`, expanding to `$a =
> $a ?? $b`.
[...]
> I expect D could do the same with `a ?:= b` or u
On Saturday, 28 October 2017 at 11:38:52 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Walter and I decided to kick-off project Elvis for adding the
homonym operator to D.
I'd like to mention null-coalescing assignment syntax. Perl has
`$a //= $b`, and PHP has voted to support `$a ??= $b`, expandin
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