[Issue 16438] std.typelist still exists!

2016-08-29 Thread via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16438 --- Comment #2 from greensunn...@gmail.com --- sorry wrong Github PR - see https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/3955 https://github.com/dlang/phobos/commit/096480ecc35fbe427b08eeb1441a9ae44ea44f98 --

[Issue 16438] std.typelist still exists!

2016-08-29 Thread via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16438 greensunn...@gmail.com changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |RESOLVED CC|

[Issue 16438] New: std.typelist still exists!

2016-08-27 Thread via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16438 Issue ID: 16438 Summary: std.typelist still exists! Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: major Priority: P1

[Issue 7797] std.typelist should be deprecated

2014-09-20 Thread via Digitalmars-d-bugs
#2541 from quickfur/issue7797 Deprecated obsolete module std.typelist. --

[Issue 7797] std.typelist should be deprecated

2014-09-20 Thread via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7797 hst...@quickfur.ath.cx changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution|---

[Issue 7797] std.typelist should be deprecated

2014-09-19 Thread via Digitalmars-d-bugs
#3 from hst...@quickfur.ath.cx --- Hmm. std.typelist isn't on dlang.org anymore, and hasn't been as far as I can remember. Is it safe to outright delete it, or should we deprecate it first? --

[Issue 7797] std.typelist should be deprecated

2014-09-19 Thread via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7797 hst...@quickfur.ath.cx changed: What|Removed |Added Keywords||pull --- Comment #4 from

[Issue 7797] std.typelist should be deprecated

2014-09-19 Thread via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7797 --- Comment #5 from hst...@quickfur.ath.cx --- Just for reference / posterity: std.typelist was originally added in Sep 2009 (04216e8d29a4ff4674c9dd332b68962539c368a6). It was first referenced from another Phobos module in May 2010

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2013-02-13 Thread Arlen
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:05 PM, bearophile bearophileh...@lycos.comwrote: And isn't it better for the Rational constructor to simplify the arguments (calling an optimized GCD)? See this implementation (that doesn't use an optimized GCD):

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2013-02-13 Thread bearophile
Arlen: I ran some benchmarks, and I don't see how the rosetta version is more optimized: My message says See this implementation (that doesn't use an optimized GCD):. I have never said that code is more optimized. What I have said is that your version probably should simplify its

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2013-02-13 Thread Arlen
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 3:48 PM, bearophile bearophileh...@lycos.comwrote: Arlen: I ran some benchmarks, and I don't see how the rosetta version is more optimized: My message says See this implementation (that doesn't use an optimized GCD):. I have never said that code is more

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2013-02-13 Thread bearophile
Arlen: but my version _does_ simplify its arguments inside the constructor. Right, sorry. As for an optimized GCD, are you talking about binary GCD? Right, but as we have seen a naive implementation of binary GCD gives no improvements:

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2013-02-12 Thread FG
On 2013-02-12 04:03, bearophile wrote: But I have not yet understood why D isn't using GMP as Haskell does. Especially that when you get dynamic libraries working it would create good common ground for interoperability. In theory Open Source is meant to give a huge help to code reuse, in

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2013-02-12 Thread bearophile
FG: Not sure though whether what's possible in Mono's GC can be ported to D. With developed in conjunction I meant written with then, not just ported (that means copied and then adapted). Go, C#, Rust and D need GCs with different characteristics, but not totally different characteristics.

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2013-02-12 Thread bearophile
Andrej Mitrovic: Good luck compiling that with DMC on win32. And fixing bugs upstream. :) For the first problem maybe using LLVM is a solution. For the second problem, do you know how do Haskell devs solve it? Bye, bearophile

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2013-02-12 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On 2/12/13, bearophile bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: Good luck compiling that with DMC on win32. And fixing bugs upstream. :) For the first problem maybe using LLVM is a solution. That doesn't help if we want to use DMD. As for the second part I meant it's likely easier to fix bugs in

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2013-02-11 Thread Arlen
Just a quick update: I have made Rational nothrow, fixed toString, and some other minor changes. For the past several months I've used Rational extensively in units (see my other thread), and it works great. source: https://github.com/Arlen/phobos/blob/std_rational/std/rational.d docs:

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2013-02-11 Thread bearophile
Arlen: https://github.com/Arlen/phobos/blob/std_rational/std/rational.d docs: http://arlen.github.com/phobos/std_rational.html I'd like a good Rational in Phobos. From your code: private template isSignedIntegral(T) { enum isSignedIntegral = isIntegral!T isSigned!T; } ... struct

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2013-02-11 Thread Arlen
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:05 PM, bearophile bearophileh...@lycos.comwrote: A Rational should accept T as BigInt too. Bye, bearophile Rational doesn't support BigInt because the necessary math functions do not support BigInt. And if you are going to have Rational support BigInt, you are

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2013-02-11 Thread bearophile
Arlen: Rational doesn't support BigInt because the necessary math functions do not support BigInt. And if you are going to have Rational support BigInt, you are most likely going to need BigFloat, which is something we don't have. I have used Rationals with BigInts several times, and so

[Issue 7797] std.typelist should be deprecated

2013-02-06 Thread d-bugmail
Summary|std.typelist missing from |std.typelist should be |documentation |deprecated --- Comment #2 from Andrej Mitrovic andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com 2013-02-06 20:27:31 PST --- Changing to a Phobos bug. std.typelist should be nuked, I don't see anything

[Issue 7797] std.typelist missing from documentation

2012-12-02 Thread d-bugmail
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7797 Andrej Mitrovic andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com changed: What|Removed |Added CC|

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-09 Thread Aziz K.
On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 23:01:42 +0200, Ellery Newcomer ellery-newco...@utulsa.edu wrote: Wasn't Paul D. Anderson working on a BigFloat? Thanks for the hint. I found his project on github: https://github.com/andersonpd/decimal Seems fairly complete and usable. Hope he's going to continue to

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-09 Thread Paul D. Anderson
On Monday, 8 October 2012 at 15:14:35 UTC, Aziz K. wrote: Incidentally, I would very much need a BigFloat class/struct, written in D and independent of any C library. I'm trying to write one myself, but it seems to be rather tricky. Could this be implemented in a short amount of time by

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-08 Thread Simen Kjaeraas
On 2012-44-08 06:10, Arlen arlen...@gmx.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Dmitry Olshansky dmitry.o...@gmail.com wrote: Cool, does it work with BigInt? No it doesn't work with BigInt, but I did look into it today briefly. There are issues with BigInt that I'm not sure what to do

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-08 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 09:08:57AM +0200, Simen Kjaeraas wrote: On 2012-44-08 06:10, Arlen arlen...@gmx.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Dmitry Olshansky dmitry.o...@gmail.com wrote: Cool, does it work with BigInt? No it doesn't work with BigInt, but I did look into it today

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-08 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 01:15:50PM +0400, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: [...] Just define method with this signature: void toString(scope void delegate(const(char)[]) sink) And bingo! It's used in all of formatting stuff like write(f)(ln), format, formattedWrite etc. e.g. before posting I

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-08 Thread Aziz K.
On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:28:37 +0200, H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: I'd like to chime in to state that I'd love to have Rational support BigInt. If necessary, use an arbitrary-width floating point format for floating point conversions (BigFloat?). Incidentally, I would very much

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-08 Thread Arlen
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Simen Kjaeraas simen.kja...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-44-08 06:10, Arlen arlen...@gmx.com wrote: 1. To convert a BigInt to floating-point one needs to convert it to the built-in integer types first. If you go beyond the limits of the built-in types (long),

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-08 Thread Ellery Newcomer
On 10/08/2012 07:56 AM, Aziz K. wrote: Incidentally, I would very much need a BigFloat class/struct, written in D and independent of any C library. I'm trying to write one myself, but it seems to be rather tricky. Could this be implemented in a short amount of time by someone with more

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-08 Thread bearophile
Arlen: Yes, std.math.abs and std.numeric.gcd are very easy to implement for BigInt, Don doesn't agree regarding the gcd. To compute the gcd efficiently on large numbers you need not easy algorithms. See: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7102 Bye, bearophile

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-08 Thread Arlen
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 4:37 PM, bearophile bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: Arlen: Yes, std.math.abs and std.numeric.gcd are very easy to implement for BigInt, Don doesn't agree regarding the gcd. To compute the gcd efficiently on large numbers you need not easy algorithms. See:

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-07 Thread Philippe Sigaud
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Arlen arlen...@gmx.com wrote: I'm not sure if TypeTuples work well when doing things like dimensional analysis. For example, if you have two TypeTuples, A and B, what would the signature of the metafunction to merge the two look like? template Merge(A, B) {

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-07 Thread Philippe Sigaud
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Dmitry Olshansky dmitry.o...@gmail.com wrote: Your current code may have some bad impact on performance: return ( ~ to!string(res.numerator) ~ / ~ to!string(res.denominator) ~ ); Allocates 4 times. ~ operator is convenient shortcut to get job done but it's

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-07 Thread Philippe Sigaud
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Arlen arlen...@gmx.com wrote: #1 template Foldl(alias Fun, Z, alias TL) { } This is called when dealing with 1-dimensional typelists. For example: alias Foldl!(MyFun, char, TL) R1; // where TL is, e.g., TypeList!(int, char, double) #2 template

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-07 Thread Jakob Ovrum
On Sunday, 7 October 2012 at 07:36:08 UTC, Philippe Sigaud wrote: On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Dmitry Olshansky dmitry.o...@gmail.com wrote: Your current code may have some bad impact on performance: return ( ~ to!string(res.numerator) ~ / ~ to!string(res.denominator) ~ ); Allocates 4

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-07 Thread Dmitry Olshansky
On 07-Oct-12 12:10, Jakob Ovrum wrote: On Sunday, 7 October 2012 at 07:36:08 UTC, Philippe Sigaud wrote: On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Dmitry Olshansky dmitry.o...@gmail.com wrote: Your current code may have some bad impact on performance: return ( ~ to!string(res.numerator) ~ / ~

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-07 Thread Dmitry Olshansky
On 07-Oct-12 11:23, Philippe Sigaud wrote: On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Arlen arlen...@gmx.com wrote: I'm not sure if TypeTuples work well when doing things like dimensional analysis. For example, if you have two TypeTuples, A and B, what would the signature of the metafunction to merge

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-07 Thread Jakob Ovrum
On Sunday, 7 October 2012 at 09:27:54 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: Ehem.. I've been pushing for DIP9 a lot of time. But then I find out that it is already here (and been for some time). Like I said use a special overload of toString that is exactly writeTo. Just define method with this

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-07 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Sunday, October 07, 2012 11:37:30 Jakob Ovrum wrote: To implement it fully we would still want to change toString for classes, and probably do something like providing a UFCS function in object.toString or some other relevant location for convenience and backwards compatibility. Well,

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-07 Thread Jakob Ovrum
On Sunday, 7 October 2012 at 09:58:54 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: Well, considering that we're looking at removing toString, toHash, opCmp, and opEquals from Object entirely, that probably won't be necessary. But that particular plan hasn't gotten past the initial discussions AFAIK, so who

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-07 Thread Philippe Sigaud
On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Dmitry Olshansky dmitry.o...@gmail.com wrote: import std.stdio, std.format; struct A{ int k; void toString(scope void delegate(const(char)[]) sink) { formattedWrite(sink, [%d], k); } } I see, thanks. And if

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-07 Thread David Nadlinger
On Sunday, 7 October 2012 at 15:36:52 UTC, Philippe Sigaud wrote: I see, thanks. And if the string in formattedWrite is a complex beast, created through lots of if's and while's, I use Appender in its place? Ideally, you just write to the sink directly, piece by piece – but if for some

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-07 Thread Artur Skawina
On 10/07/12 17:24, Philippe Sigaud wrote: On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Dmitry Olshansky dmitry.o...@gmail.com wrote: import std.stdio, std.format; struct A{ int k; void toString(scope void delegate(const(char)[]) sink) { formattedWrite(sink,

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-07 Thread Arlen
On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 2:23 AM, Philippe Sigaud philippe.sig...@gmail.com wrote: Double-stage templates (which reminds me of rocket science :) ) template Merge(A...) { template With(B...) { } } Usage: Merge!(int,double,string).With!(double,byte) I can live with that, but, as

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-07 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Sunday, October 07, 2012 22:57:33 Arlen wrote: I can live with that, but, as I explained before, TypeTuples cause code duplication in certain cases because they force 'alias' to be used in the signature of the metafunctions. And how would you return a multi-dimensional TypeTuple? The

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-07 Thread Arlen
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Dmitry Olshansky dmitry.o...@gmail.com wrote: Cool, does it work with BigInt? No it doesn't work with BigInt, but I did look into it today briefly. There are issues with BigInt that I'm not sure what to do about: 1. To convert a BigInt to floating-point one

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-07 Thread Arlen
On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Jonathan M Davis jmdavisp...@gmx.com wrote: While this sort of function might be useful from time to time, how often is it actually, realistically needed? Certainly, I'd argue that it's rare enough that having a slightly more complicated solution specifically

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-07 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Monday, October 08, 2012 00:14:04 Arlen wrote: So, we're not adding TypeList. Oh, I was aware that a decision had already been made. I thought it was an open issue. It was decided the last time that std.typelist was brought up. Basically, TypeList doesn't provide enough over TypeTuple

Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-06 Thread Arlen
std.typelist, which provides the TypeList type and several metafunctions.  The metafunctions are pretty much stolen from Haskell.   Source:  https://github.com/Arlen/phobos/blob/units/std/typelist2.d Docs:  http://arlen.github.com/phobos/std_typelist2.html I wasn't aware that we already had std.typelist

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-06 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Saturday, October 06, 2012 19:03:39 Arlen wrote: I wasn't aware that we already had std.typelist module in Phobos until I was ready to submit my work. I suppose the work was abandoned or it was never finalized? There are differences in typelist2.d and typelist.d, though. It needs

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-06 Thread bearophile
/phobos/blob/units/std/rational.d Docs:  http://arlen.github.com/phobos/std_rational.html I'd like a Rational in Phobos. Have you tested it (in unittests) widely with Bigints? std.typelist, which provides the TypeList type and several metafunctions.  The metafunctions are pretty much stolen from

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-06 Thread David Nadlinger
like it in Phobos. It is pretty much finished, but needs a bit of polish here and there (many compiler improvements have been made since I wrote it). Unfortunately, I'm currently swamped in other work, though… std.typelist, which provides the TypeList type and several metafunctions

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-06 Thread Arlen
) { } and you certainly can't do something like template Merge(AB...) { } Arlen  - Original Message -  From: Jonathan M Davis  Sent: 10/06/12 12:52 PM  To: digitalmars.D  Subject: Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist   On Saturday, October 06, 2012 19:03:39

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-06 Thread David Nadlinger
On Saturday, 6 October 2012 at 18:13:19 UTC, Arlen wrote: For example, if you have two TypeTuples, A and B, what would the signature of the metafunction to merge the two look like? In my experience, these cases occur a lot less frequently than one might think when first encountering the

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-06 Thread Dmitry Olshansky
. std.typelist, which provides the TypeList type and several metafunctions. The metafunctions are pretty much stolen from Haskell. Source: https://github.com/Arlen/phobos/blob/units/std/typelist2.d Docs: http://arlen.github.com/phobos/std_typelist2.html I concur with the general idea that it needs

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-06 Thread Arlen
: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist   I'd like a Rational in Phobos. Have you tested it (in unittests) widely with Bigints? Bye, bearophile  

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-06 Thread Arlen
- Original Message - From: David Nadlinger Sent: 10/06/12 12:58 PM To: digitalmars-d@puremagic.com Subject: Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist I wrote a units library in D last year: http://klickverbot.at/code/units/. Before setting out, I extensively

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-06 Thread Arlen
- Original Message - From: David Nadlinger Sent: 10/06/12 01:08 PM To: digitalmars-d@puremagic.com Subject: Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist In my experience, these cases occur a lot less frequently than one might think when first encountering

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-06 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 10/06/2012 07:54 PM, bearophile wrote: I'd like a Rational in Phobos. Have you tested it (in unittests) widely with Bigints? Seconded, this would be very nice to see.

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-06 Thread David Nadlinger
On Saturday, 6 October 2012 at 20:00:47 UTC, Arlen wrote: You need both of these if you want, for example, fold to work with n-dimensional typelists: template Foldl(alias Fun, Z, alias TL) {  } template Foldl(alias Fun, alias Z, alias TL) { } // when Z is a TypeList I'm not quite sure what

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-06 Thread David Nadlinger
On Saturday, 6 October 2012 at 19:40:10 UTC, Arlen wrote: Besides, the math behind it is sound and and many years of hard work has gone into it. Also, it is extremely complicated by the fact that it somehow has to work withing the boundaries of C++ and boost::mpl and friends. I do want to

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-06 Thread Arlen
Testing...

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-06 Thread Arlen
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 3:53 PM, David Nadlinger s...@klickverbot.at wrote: On Saturday, 6 October 2012 at 20:00:47 UTC, Arlen wrote: You need both of these if you want, for example, fold to work with n-dimensional typelists: template Foldl(alias Fun, Z, alias TL) { } template Foldl(alias

Re: Preliminary submission - std.rational and std.typelist

2012-10-06 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 10:54:31PM +0200, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: On 10/06/2012 07:54 PM, bearophile wrote: I'd like a Rational in Phobos. Have you tested it (in unittests) widely with Bigints? Seconded, this would be very nice to see. +1. T -- Computers are like a jungle: they

Re: std.typelist

2012-06-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 6/22/12 5:00 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: I tend to agree with all of this. I think that std.typelist looks very cool, but we need to make sure that it fits in well with what we want to do. Agreed. FWIW I'm not all that enthused about std.typelist. D's tuples support random access and much

Re: std.typelist

2012-06-23 Thread Jonathan M Davis
hand, type tuples are deeply anchored in the language (variadics, ...), and better match the general array/range theme of D, thus probably reducing »mental overhead« for people not used to functional programming. This is not to say that I don't find the std.typelist concept interesting. We

std.typelist

2012-06-22 Thread Jonathan M Davis
As was recently pointed out on the Phobos list ( http://forum.dlang.org/post/CAEnAdhZTcuOL50TeRwCCG=E99nCA_Gh=y=ttheugknueac0...@mail.gmail.com ), we technically have std.typelist (which I'd never heard of before that post), which Bartosz Milewski put together a few years ago. However, it's

Re: std.typelist

2012-06-22 Thread Alex Rønne Petersen
On 22-06-2012 20:06, Jonathan M Davis wrote: As was recently pointed out on the Phobos list ( http://forum.dlang.org/post/CAEnAdhZTcuOL50TeRwCCG=E99nCA_Gh=y=ttheugknueac0...@mail.gmail.com ), we technically have std.typelist (which I'd never heard of before that post), which Bartosz Milewski put

Re: std.typelist

2012-06-22 Thread simendsjo
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:06:10 +0200, Jonathan M Davis jmdavisp...@gmx.com wrote: As was recently pointed out on the Phobos list ( http://forum.dlang.org/post/CAEnAdhZTcuOL50TeRwCCG=E99nCA_Gh=y=ttheugknueac0...@mail.gmail.com ), we technically have std.typelist (which I'd never heard of before

Re: std.typelist

2012-06-22 Thread David Nadlinger
, ...), and better match the general array/range theme of D, thus probably reducing »mental overhead« for people not used to functional programming. This is not to say that I don't find the std.typelist concept interesting. We just should be very clear on how to go forward with »meta« algorithms

Re: std.typelist

2012-06-22 Thread Alex Rønne Petersen
(variadics, ...), and better match the general array/range theme of D, thus probably reducing »mental overhead« for people not used to functional programming. This is not to say that I don't find the std.typelist concept interesting. We just should be very clear on how to go forward with »meta

Re: std.typelist

2012-06-22 Thread Guillaume Chatelet
On 06/22/12 21:13, David Nadlinger wrote: This is not to say that I don't find the std.typelist concept interesting. We just should be very clear on how to go forward with »meta« algorithms in Phobos before going forward with this. Developing std.typelist and std.typetuple side by side

Re: std.typelist

2012-06-22 Thread David Nadlinger
On Friday, 22 June 2012 at 19:52:37 UTC, Guillaume Chatelet wrote: +1, I'd add std.typecons to this list ( std.typecons.Tuple in particular ). The boundaries of each of those modules are kind of blurry and overlapping. std.typecons.Tuple lives in the run-time (and CTFE, for that matter)