On Mar 22, 2012, at 10:31 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 01:16:13AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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Here's a little templates primer, I hope it helps:
[...]
I've cleaned this up, added an
On Mar 22, 2012, at 10:35 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
And some of that fancier template stuff (like template fibonacci) is better
done as CTFE anyway ;)
It is, but I think it should be covered anyway because people may still
encounter this code and should be able to grasp what it's doing.
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Here's a little templates primer, I hope it helps:
[...]
I've cleaned this up, added an intro and outro, and posted it on my website
here:
https://www.semitwist.com/articles/article/view/template-primer-in-d
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 01:16:13AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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Here's a little templates primer, I hope it helps:
[...]
I've cleaned this up, added an intro and outro, and posted it on my
website here:
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On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 01:16:13AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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Here's a little templates
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 11:04:45 +0100
Paulo Pinto pj...@progtools.org wrote:
Enterprise software?
Not here, we'll write open-source project. ;)
Sincerely,
Gour
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On Mar 17, 2012, at 10:14 AM, Entity325 wrote:
(Sorry if this is the wrong place for this, or if there's already a thread in
existence which would be better. If either of these is the case, simply
point me in the right direction, and I'll be on my way.)
My first interaction with
On 3/19/12 1:59 PM, Sean Kelly wrote:
I see this a lot, and it's why I wrote the chapter on templates for
Learn to Tango with D. I don't think I can sort out releasing the
chapter though. One approach is to think of templates as
compile-time polymorphism. In Java, you might create a
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 02:27:04PM -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 3/19/12 1:59 PM, Sean Kelly wrote:
I see this a lot, and it's why I wrote the chapter on templates for
Learn to Tango with D. I don't think I can sort out releasing the
chapter though. One approach is to think of
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 20:37, H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote:
It would be nice if somebody could write up a general introduction to
the idea of templates (not specific to D), the motivations behind it,
perhaps some historical background, and then eventually lead up to
advanced
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On 3/19/12 1:59 PM, Sean Kelly wrote:
I see this a lot, and it's why I wrote the chapter on templates for
Learn to Tango with D. I don't think I can sort out releasing the
chapter
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:39:53 -0700
H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote:
I don't think you can discard OOP entirely. It still has its place
IMO. When you need runtime polymorphism, OOP is still the best tool
for the job.
Hmm, if we want to write more FP-like type-safe code, I wonder how
Am 18.03.2012 07:41, schrieb Gour:
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:39:53 -0700
H. S. Teohhst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote:
I don't think you can discard OOP entirely. It still has its place
IMO. When you need runtime polymorphism, OOP is still the best tool
for the job.
Hmm, if we want to write more
(Sorry if this is the wrong place for this, or if there's already
a thread in existence which would be better. If either of these
is the case, simply point me in the right direction, and I'll be
on my way.)
My first interaction with Templates was about 5 years ago, in a
C++ class at my
On 3/17/12 12:14 PM, Entity325 wrote:
Who's with me? Anybody have a short(but COMPLETE!) example of code that
makes use of Templates that you actually understand what's going on there?
You're on to something here. Then, as usual, from idea to realization
there are quite a few steps.
I took
On 3/17/2012 10:55 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 3/17/12 12:14 PM, Entity325 wrote:
Who's with me? Anybody have a short(but COMPLETE!) example of code that
makes use of Templates that you actually understand what's going on there?
You're on to something here. Then, as usual, from idea to
On Saturday, 17 March 2012 at 18:16:31 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
i.e. templates are type parameters.
Maybe in C++. In C++, templates are attached to a class or
function, where as in D, they're an independent construct. The
way I think of it, templates are a tool for building static code
Maybe you should first try to learn some concepts about generic programming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_programming
You will see this is nothing specific to C++ or D, and almost
all modern languages do have some form of genericity.
If you still cannot understand them, you cold try to
On 03/17/2012 10:14 AM, Entity325 wrote:
Who's with me? Anybody have a short(but COMPLETE!) example of code that
makes use of Templates that you actually understand what's going on
there?
The Templates chapter of Programming in D is supposed to be a gentle
introduction to templates:
On 03/17/2012 12:57 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/templates.html
[...]
The chapter also contains a link to Philippe Sigaud's D Templates: A
Tutorial.
Sorry, I did not intend to leave the link to that document out:
On 2012-03-17 20:14:47 +0300, Entity325 said:
Who's with me? Anybody have a short(but COMPLETE!) example of code
that makes use of Templates that you actually understand what's going
on there?
Philippe Sigaud made a very good tutorial on templates in D -
Entity325 lonewolf...@gmail.com wrote in message
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That is to say, nobody understands how Templates work is because, as was
the case for me, the sum total of explanation we are given on them in
programming class is These are Templates. They exist.
On 3/17/12, Entity325 lonewolf...@gmail.com wrote:
Who's with me? Anybody have a short(but COMPLETE!) example of
code that makes use of Templates that you actually understand
what's going on there?
I wrote this a long time ago when I was just figuring out what
templates were about (it's not a
templates are a tool for building static code from a set of
parameters.
unfortunately (imho), there is no way to see the result code
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:29:18 +0100
Andrej Mitrovic andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com wrote:
I had no idea what templates were when I started using D, and I
thought I would never need to use them either. But now I use them
extensively. They really become a natural tool in programming. They're
so nice
How it come, that we build another abstartion level above strong
typed language?
Onece we builded high level language above assembler. Are we now
building another more high level? Will temlate will become
another language used as complete language? Will generic
prigramming become mainstream,
Am 17.03.2012 21:20, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
Entity325lonewolf...@gmail.com wrote in message
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That is to say, nobody understands how Templates work is because, as was
the case for me, the sum total of explanation we are given on them in
programming
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:56:14 +0100, novice2 so...@noem.ail wrote:
How it come, that we build another abstartion level above strong typed
language?
Onece we builded high level language above assembler. Are we now
building another more high level? Will temlate will become another
language
Am 17.03.2012 21:56, schrieb novice2:
How it come, that we build another abstartion level above strong typed
language?
Onece we builded high level language above assembler. Are we now
building another more high level? Will temlate will become another
language used as complete language? Will
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:16:37 +0100, Paulo Pinto pj...@progtools.org
wrote:
Am 17.03.2012 21:56, schrieb novice2:
How it come, that we build another abstartion level above strong typed
language?
Onece we builded high level language above assembler. Are we now
building another more high level?
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:20:42 +0100, Nick Sabalausky a@a.a wrote:
I've spent a total of about 6 years in college, always got A's and B's in
the CS classes, and yet I'm convinced that programming classes are
completely and utterly useless. Most of the instructors themselves barely
even know how
Am 17.03.2012 22:19, schrieb Simen Kjærås:
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:16:37 +0100, Paulo Pinto pj...@progtools.org
wrote:
Am 17.03.2012 21:56, schrieb novice2:
How it come, that we build another abstartion level above strong typed
language?
Onece we builded high level language above assembler.
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:13:44PM +0100, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Am 17.03.2012 21:20, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
[...]
I've spent a total of about 6 years in college, always got A's and
B's in the CS classes, and yet I'm convinced that programming classes
are completely and utterly useless. Most of
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:15:26PM +0100, Simen Kjærås wrote:
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:56:14 +0100, novice2 so...@noem.ail wrote:
How it come, that we build another abstartion level above strong
typed language?
Onece we builded high level language above assembler. Are we now
building another
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 09:45:51PM +0100, Gour wrote:
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:29:18 +0100
Andrej Mitrovic andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com wrote:
I had no idea what templates were when I started using D, and I
thought I would never need to use them either. But now I use them
extensively. They
On 17-3-2012 21:20, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Here's a little templates primer, I hope it helps:
[...]
Part of this primer would serve well as introduction
to Phillipe's tutorial, because it skips the basics.
(I knew the basics, but not everybody does.)
Jos
Wow, popular thread is popular.
Thanks for all the help, everyone. I haven't read all of it, but
I will take the time to sift through everything and see what I
can apply.
Response to some of what I did read:
-I didn't conclude that templates are confusing because they
confused me. I
H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote in message
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(Not to mention, D templates can do some stuff that no OO can hope to
attain. But it goes both ways. Templates can't do runtime polymorphism
either.)
Combined with compile-time
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 08:37:35PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote in message
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(Not to mention, D templates can do some stuff that no OO can hope
to attain. But it goes both ways.
Entity325 lonewolf...@gmail.com wrote in message
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-While most of my programming professors had a decent idea of what they
were doing, the classes themselves left massive, gaping holes in my
education that I never even realized were there until I
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On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:20:42 +0100, Nick Sabalausky a@a.a wrote:
I've spent a total of about 6 years in college, always got A's and B's in
the CS classes, and yet I'm convinced that programming
H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote in message
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On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 08:37:35PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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How it come, that we build another abstartion level above strong typed
language?
Onece we builded high level language above assembler. Are we now building
another more high level? Will temlate will become
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