Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-22 Thread Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d-announce
"Walter Bright" wrote in message news:lt7tan$24ei$1...@digitalmars.com... > 1. I hate writing documentation. I really really hate it. Join the club :-) =) Sorry you got to be the pioneer with the arrows in your back, but you've paved the way for the rest of us. I don't really mind, for s

Re: D for the Win

2014-08-22 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 August 2014 at 12:08:06 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Thursday, 21 August 2014 at 12:05:40 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: ... Please, this is not important enough to argue here. And fairly common. The French one propose to use foreigner's blood to water the fields.

Re: Fix #2529: explicit protection package #3651

2014-08-22 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 04:50:36 +0300 ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: to be honest, i myself is a happy user of Kenji's $ patch and package(...) patch. yes, it costs some efforts to keep 'em up-to-date, but hey, i have no life anyway. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Fix #2529: explicit protection package #3651

2014-08-22 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 20:48:22 + bearophile via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: or (smart plan!) just apply the necessary PRs, build dmd from sources and start using the features. if authors of popular libraries will do this, there will be no choice and maintainers will be forced to apply this pa

Re: D 2.066 new behavior

2014-08-22 Thread Paul D Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 22 August 2014 at 02:26:38 UTC, safety0ff wrote: On Friday, 22 August 2014 at 01:54:55 UTC, Paul D Anderson wrote: Is this expected behavior that has never been enforced before, or is it something new? And is anyone else having the same problem? Paul Looks like a regression, I'

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-22 Thread Andrew Edwards via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/23/14, 3:33 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 8/22/14, 10:05 AM, John Colvin wrote: As I'm sure has been mentioned elsewhere, the website changes should be part of the release process, not an afterthought. Agreed. Who would like to volunteer being our webmaster? We'll discuss with our adm

Re: Fix #2529: explicit protection package #3651

2014-08-22 Thread bearophile via Digitalmars-d-announce
Dicebot: All I want is that whatever decision Walter makes to happen sooner than in few years from now. There are other pending patches, like the support for the nice [$] syntax by Kenji. "I keep thinking there's gotta be a way to do this without language changes." or "I keep thinking ther

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-22 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 22 August 2014 at 08:18:18 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote: 2. These features are rather difficult to use, and I don't want people to think they can just plug-and-play. I've spent a lot of time fighting compiler alignment bugs, which are their own special kind of hell. Many of those issue

Re: Fix #2529: explicit protection package #3651

2014-08-22 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
All I want is that whatever decision Walter makes to happen sooner than in few years from now.

Re: Classes to build a Windows service.

2014-08-22 Thread Tyler Jensen via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 26 October 2007 at 18:47:43 UTC, Steve Teale wrote: Christoph Singewald Wrote: Hi! Did you put your classes somewhere, I'm interested how you build the service. At the moment I had no luck. tnx christoph Steve Teale Wrote: > BCS Wrote: > > > Reply to Steve, > > > > > I've bui

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-22 Thread Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/22/2014 11:33 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On 8/22/14, 10:05 AM, John Colvin wrote: As I'm sure has been mentioned elsewhere, the website changes should be part of the release process, not an afterthought. Agreed. Who would like to volunteer being our webmaste

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-22 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 22 August 2014 at 17:06:31 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 8/22/2014 1:18 AM, Daniel Murphy wrote: There are two reason it's not better documented: 1. I hate writing documentation. I really really hate it. Join the club :-) 2. These features are rather difficult to use, and I don't

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-22 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/22/14, 10:05 AM, John Colvin wrote: As I'm sure has been mentioned elsewhere, the website changes should be part of the release process, not an afterthought. Agreed. Who would like to volunteer being our webmaster? We'll discuss with our admin to give push rights. -- Andrei

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-22 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/22/14, 10:04 AM, Walter Bright wrote: On 8/22/2014 1:23 AM, Daniel Murphy wrote: I assume you're aiming for something like a 'core.stdcpp.vector' with an implementation to match each stl implementation? Yes. While it'll be a significant effort to do this, it could be a big win for us. T

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-22 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/22/2014 1:18 AM, Daniel Murphy wrote: There are two reason it's not better documented: 1. I hate writing documentation. I really really hate it. Join the club :-) 2. These features are rather difficult to use, and I don't want people to think they can just plug-and-play. I've spent a l

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-22 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 22 August 2014 at 14:36:13 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 8/22/14, 2:06 AM, Dejan Lekic wrote: On Monday, 18 August 2014 at 19:00:23 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Congratulations to everyone involved! http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2dwqvy/d_2066_nogc_c_namespaces

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-22 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/22/2014 1:23 AM, Daniel Murphy wrote: "Walter Bright" wrote in message news:lt5l3k$2s5t$1...@digitalmars.com... The thing is, while the code was there, there wasn't a single test case for it in the test suite. Furthermore, at least for Elf, there was no support for the special mangling don

Re: Fix #2529: explicit protection package #3651

2014-08-22 Thread Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 17:08:25 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 8/19/2014 7:01 AM, Dicebot wrote: > Walter, now that release is out can you please state your opinion about > https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/3651 ? It is blocking Phobos > module split and decoupling. I keep

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-22 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/22/14, 2:06 AM, Dejan Lekic wrote: On Monday, 18 August 2014 at 19:00:23 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Congratulations to everyone involved! http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2dwqvy/d_2066_nogc_c_namespaces_multidimensional_slices/ https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/90

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-22 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 22 August 2014 at 08:23:16 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote: On Thursday, 21 August 2014 at 20:49:48 UTC, bachmeier wrote: It would be nice to have a page to link to when questions come up on Reddit about compatibility with C++. We have this: http://dlang.org/cpp_interface.html From what I u

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-22 Thread Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 18 August 2014 at 19:00:23 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Congratulations to everyone involved! http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2dwqvy/d_2066_nogc_c_namespaces_multidimensional_slices/ https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/905593426121006 https://twitter.com/D_Progr

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-22 Thread Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d-announce
"Walter Bright" wrote in message news:lt5l3k$2s5t$1...@digitalmars.com... The thing is, while the code was there, there wasn't a single test case for it in the test suite. Furthermore, at least for Elf, there was no support for the special mangling done for ::std:: stuff. Yeah, I don't know

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-22 Thread via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 August 2014 at 20:49:48 UTC, bachmeier wrote: It would be nice to have a page to link to when questions come up on Reddit about compatibility with C++. We have this: http://dlang.org/cpp_interface.html From what I understand, it's not complete. For example it says that non-vir

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-22 Thread Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d-announce
"Jonathan M Davis" wrote in message news:fxdqpmfcbskvtcafz...@forum.dlang.org... LOL. Yeah, well, it would be ni going to support C+ce if we could get an actual list of the C++ features that D currently supports somewhere (and how to use them if it's not obvious). You've been doing so much gr