Re: Pragmatic D Tutorial

2013-10-09 Thread Kagamin
http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/d-tut-0.1/documentation.html Are doxygen comments still endorsed? http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/d-tut-0.1/idiomatic.html Describing a range as a pair of iterators requires a reader with C++ background; the beginning of the tutorial implied wider audience. For other people it c

Re: Pragmatic D Tutorial

2013-10-09 Thread Rory McGuire
I used the QT bindings to make a transparent desktop widget once. So they have worked but I'm not sure if they do with the current compiler. I'll see if I can find my old code and see what I have to do to get it to work. On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Kagamin wrote: > http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/d

Re: Pragmatic D Tutorial

2013-10-09 Thread qznc
On Wednesday, 9 October 2013 at 07:04:07 UTC, Kagamin wrote: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/d-tut-0.1/documentation.html Are doxygen comments still endorsed? I am not aware about any counter arguments. Are there some downsides? I noticed that "Returns:" is rarely used in Phobos. http://beza1e1.tux

Re: Pragmatic D Tutorial

2013-10-09 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-10-09 10:37, qznc wrote: I am not aware about any counter arguments. Are there some downsides? I noticed that "Returns:" is rarely used in Phobos. D has built-in support for documentation comments, called ddoc: http://dlang.org/ddoc -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: Pragmatic D Tutorial

2013-10-09 Thread Kagamin
On Tuesday, 8 October 2013 at 13:59:22 UTC, Meta wrote: I haven't really thought about this before, but it's becoming increasingly difficult for me to come up with a contemporary simple language. It seems most modern languages are creeping towards more complexity. I heard, Lua interpreter imp

Re: Pragmatic D Tutorial

2013-10-09 Thread Iain Buclaw
On Oct 9, 2013 12:31 PM, "Kagamin" wrote: > > On Tuesday, 8 October 2013 at 13:59:22 UTC, Meta wrote: >> >> I haven't really thought about this before, but it's becoming increasingly difficult for me to come up with a contemporary simple language. It seems most modern languages are creeping toward

Re: [Library Release] dproto

2013-10-09 Thread Jesse Phillips
On Tuesday, 8 October 2013 at 20:50:22 UTC, Matt Soucy wrote: Thanks for the tip - I actually did find this one when I started using this, however I found it on another page that hadn't been updated (that I ironically can't find now), so I wrongfully assumed that it was abandoned. I did find th

Re: [Library Release] dproto

2013-10-09 Thread Matt Soucy
On 10/09/2013 01:55 AM, Jesse Phillips wrote: > Groups are a way to combine this, but they are deprecated so > who'd want to support that. Exactly, I didn't even bother planning out support for them. -- Matt Soucy http://msoucy.me/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Library Release] dproto

2013-10-09 Thread Matt Soucy
On 10/09/2013 10:38 AM, Jesse Phillips wrote: > On Tuesday, 8 October 2013 at 20:50:22 UTC, Matt Soucy wrote: >> Thanks for the tip - I actually did find this one when I started using >> this, however I found it on another page that hadn't been updated (that >> I ironically can't find now), so I wr

Re: Pragmatic D Tutorial

2013-10-09 Thread Dejan Lekic
On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 21:18:38 +0200, qznc wrote: > I believe one of the things D needs right now is more documentation. > Therefore, I started writing a tutorial. > > It is aimed at people who can already program well in other languages. > This means nothing about loops or structs, because I expec

Re: Pragmatic D Tutorial

2013-10-09 Thread qznc
On Wednesday, 9 October 2013 at 20:22:39 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote: It is a very nice web-site, but the main column should be wider. Sometimes the source code floats over to the second column... Hm, not here. I suspect a weird font selection for the code. I plan to redesign it at some point anywa