Re: Perl6 Unicode support

2016-06-11 Thread Andrew Godfrey via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 11 June 2016 at 19:43:45 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote: On 06/11/2016 09:25 PM, Andrew Godfrey wrote: That's the distinction, yes. The article mentions both in a way that makes me unsure if Perl 6 confused the terms (or maybe it's just the article that isn't being clear). But how would

dlang-requests 0.1.7 released

2016-06-11 Thread ikod via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hello, Dlang-requests is library created under influence of Python-requests, with primary goal of easy to use and performance. It provide interfaces for HTTP(S) and FTP requests. You can tune request details, but for most cases you will need single and simple API call. Latest release

Re: Perl6 Unicode support

2016-06-11 Thread ag0aep6g via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/11/2016 09:25 PM, Andrew Godfrey wrote: That's the distinction, yes. The article mentions both in a way that makes me unsure if Perl 6 confused the terms (or maybe it's just the article that isn't being clear). But how would you "focus" on one or the other? Is there any operation that

Re: Perl6 Unicode support

2016-06-11 Thread Andrew Godfrey via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 11 June 2016 at 18:33:04 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote: On 06/11/2016 06:47 PM, Andrew Godfrey wrote: OTOH, it mentions both graphemes and grapheme clusters, without much distinction. So I'm not exactly sure which is the default focus. What distinction is there to be made? As far as I

Announcing TinyRedis v2.1.0

2016-06-11 Thread Adil via Digitalmars-d-announce
It's been a while since i announced a TinyRedis release. So here goes. TinyRedis is a fast and simple Redis(http://redis.io) driver for D. It has no dependencies and makes working with Redis trivial. This release brings TinyRedis up-to-date with dmd 2.071. Noteworthy improvements are : -

Re: Perl6 Unicode support

2016-06-11 Thread ag0aep6g via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/11/2016 06:47 PM, Andrew Godfrey wrote: OTOH, it mentions both graphemes and grapheme clusters, without much distinction. So I'm not exactly sure which is the default focus. What distinction is there to be made? As far as I understand, a grapheme cluster is a sequence (or cluster) of

Re: Button: A fast, correct, and elegantly simple build system.

2016-06-11 Thread Jason White via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 11 June 2016 at 02:48:59 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Finally got around to looking at this (albeit just briefly). It looks very nice! Perhaps I'll try using it for my next project. If you do end up using it, I'd be happy to iron out any irritations in Button that you encounter.

Re: Perl6 Unicode support

2016-06-11 Thread Andrew Godfrey via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 May 2016 at 12:11:32 UTC, Guillaume Chatelet wrote: It looks good: https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/day-7-unicode-perl-6-and-you/ Especially, it works in graphemes, and ".codes" lets you count code points. The article isn't even mentioning "code units". OTOH, it

Re: foo => "bar" key/value literals in D!

2016-06-11 Thread ArturG via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 11 June 2016 at 15:46:59 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: Taking an address creates a function pointer, which loses the argument names. (Doesn't it?) unfortunatly yes, but it works as a struct or class initializer https://dpaste.dzfl.pl/6aad852aea90

Re: foo => "bar" key/value literals in D!

2016-06-11 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 11 June 2016 at 11:15:43 UTC, ArturG wrote: On Saturday, 11 June 2016 at 09:07:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: No, both are nice to have. If one name is needed for both, "args" is indeed a good commonality. "Invoke function f with these args" and "Construct an object of type

Re: The Official D Blog is Live

2016-06-11 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2016-06-10 20:47, Jacob Carlborg wrote: Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an exact specification of what's required for the reader mode to be available. I can do some digging to see if I can find something. At the bottom is the minimal amount of HTML code I could come up with that

Re: foo => "bar" key/value literals in D!

2016-06-11 Thread ArturG via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 11 June 2016 at 09:07:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: No, both are nice to have. If one name is needed for both, "args" is indeed a good commonality. "Invoke function f with these args" and "Construct an object of type T with these args". The problem is it's not very

Re: foo => "bar" key/value literals in D!

2016-06-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/11/16 3:57 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Tuesday, 31 May 2016 at 06:21:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/27/16 10:17 PM, Taylor Hillegeist wrote: On Friday, 27 May 2016 at 18:10:59 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Monday, 23 May 2016 at 19:00:40 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Have

Re: Beta release DUB 1.0.0-beta.1

2016-06-11 Thread Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7 June 2016 at 19:54, Sönke Ludwig wrote: > DUB 1.0.0 is nearing completion. The new feature over 0.9.25 is support for > single-file packages, which can be used to write shebang-style scripts on > Posix systems: > > #!/usr/bin/env dub > /++