Re: Beta D 2.069.0-b1

2015-10-10 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 7 October 2015 at 22:33:09 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: First beta for the 2.069.0 release. http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.069.0.html Please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org -Martin First beta, so far I can use it as a drop in repl

Re: Beta D 2.069.0-b1

2015-10-10 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 10 October 2015 at 16:31:27 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Saturday, 10 October 2015 at 12:51:43 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: In Ruby, no one will ever use empty parentheses for calling a method. That's actually the same as Simula. Functions/procedures with no parameters is cal

Re: Beta D 2.069.0-b1

2015-10-10 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 10 October 2015 at 02:57:03 UTC, Meta wrote: On Saturday, 10 October 2015 at 02:31:51 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: That's what I meant, weird use-case, at best it's a callback better/setter. I've never written such code, but even if you would, the 2 pairs of parens are only a tiny prob

Re: Beta D 2.069.0-b1

2015-10-10 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 10 October 2015 at 01:52:36 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Right, ideally a @proptery function can perfectly replace a variable, but practically calling the return value seems far fetched. What would you use that for, a handwritten interface struct with function pointers made read-only u

Re: Run D on AWS Lambda

2015-10-10 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 26 July 2015 at 03:55:17 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/ https://github.com/Laeeth/awslambda_d http://blog.0x82.com/2014/11/24/aws-lambda-functions-in-go/ No proper docs yet, but you can figure it out from the go example. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wha

Re: Beta D 2.069.0-b1

2015-10-10 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, October 10, 2015 02:57:01 Meta via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Saturday, 10 October 2015 at 02:31:51 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: > > That's what I meant, weird use-case, at best it's a callback > > better/setter. > > I've never written such code, but even if you would, the 2 > > pa

Re: Beta D 2.069.0-b1

2015-10-10 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 10 October 2015 at 12:51:43 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: In Ruby, no one will ever use empty parentheses for calling a method. That's actually the same as Simula. Functions/procedures with no parameters is called without parentheses.

LDC 0.16.0 beta2 is out! Try out before we create the final release!

2015-10-10 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi everyone, LDC 0.16.0 beta2, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! This release is based on the 2.067.1 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.1-3.7 (OS X: no support for 3.3). Don't miss to check if your preferred system is supported by this release. We also hav

Re: Beta D 2.069.0-b1

2015-10-10 Thread Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10 October 2015 at 14:51, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > On 2015-10-10 03:52, Martin Nowak wrote: > > Scala and Ruby seem to do well with sloppy parens. >> > > A few notes about why Ruby doesn't have the same problems as D has: > > 1.

Re: Beta D 2.069.0-b1

2015-10-10 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2015-10-10 03:52, Martin Nowak wrote: Scala and Ruby seem to do well with sloppy parens. A few notes about why Ruby doesn't have the same problems as D has: 1. Ruby has optional parentheses for all method calls, regardless if they accept arguments or not 2. Ruby has a different syntax f