Re: Compile-Time Sort in D

2017-06-05 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 5 June 2017 at 21:35:54 UTC, Seb wrote: This is a great article, Mike! Thanks! At the end I expected a reference to D's great template constraints [1], maybe it's still worth adding sth. like this to show how amazingly useful CTFE is? It's a good idea! I don't think I'll and ch

Re: Compile-Time Sort in D

2017-06-05 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 5 June 2017 at 17:54:05 UTC, Jon Degenhardt wrote: Very nice post! Thanks! If it gets half as many page views as yours did, I'll be happy. Yours is the most-viewed post on the blog -- over 1000 views more than #2 (my GC post), and 5,000 more than #3 (A New Import Idiom).

Re: Compile-Time Sort in D

2017-06-05 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 5 June 2017 at 14:23:34 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The crowd-edited (?) blog post exploring some of D's compile-time features is now live. Thanks again to everyone who helped out with it. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2017/06/05/compile-time-sort-in-d/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.co

Re: Release D 2.074.1

2017-06-05 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 5 June 2017 at 18:25:19 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: IMO the problem here is the usage of a VERSION file in the first place, which exists only b/c it's somewhat tricky to invoke git on Windows. Yup, my instinct is that if a VERSION file needs to exist at all it should be created during

Re: Compile-Time Sort in D

2017-06-05 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 5 June 2017 at 14:23:34 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The crowd-edited (?) blog post exploring some of D's compile-time features is now live. Thanks again to everyone who helped out with it. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2017/06/05/compile-time-sort-in-d/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.co

Re: Compile-Time Sort in D

2017-06-05 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/5/2017 10:54 AM, Jon Degenhardt wrote: On Monday, 5 June 2017 at 14:23:34 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The crowd-edited (?) blog post exploring some of D's compile-time features is now live. Thanks again to everyone who helped out with it. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2017/06/05/compile-ti

Re: Release D 2.074.1

2017-06-05 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 3 June 2017 at 19:57:36 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: The problem here is that anyone downstream wanting to build or package from source has to work around this issue, that without manual intervention, the version information of the compiler will be incorrect. If that's not

Re: Release D 2.074.1

2017-06-05 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 3 June 2017 at 18:08:40 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: On Thursday, 1 June 2017 at 21:04:00 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: This point release fixes a few issues over 2.074.0, see the changelog for more details. I'm afraid that the release has another fault: the VERSION file still

Re: Compile-Time Sort in D

2017-06-05 Thread Jon Degenhardt via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 5 June 2017 at 14:23:34 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The crowd-edited (?) blog post exploring some of D's compile-time features is now live. Thanks again to everyone who helped out with it. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2017/06/05/compile-time-sort-in-d/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.co

Compile-Time Sort in D

2017-06-05 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The crowd-edited (?) blog post exploring some of D's compile-time features is now live. Thanks again to everyone who helped out with it. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2017/06/05/compile-time-sort-in-d/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6fefdg/compiletime_sort_in_d/

Boston D Meetup for 6/9

2017-06-05 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi fellow Boston D enthusiasts. We are going to have another meetup at the Street in Chestnut Hill this Friday. Andrei and I will be there, hope you can join us! Please RSVP on the eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/monthly-boston-d-get-together-tickets-35120523431 -Steve

Re: DIP 1003 (Remove body as a Keyword) Accepted!

2017-06-05 Thread Olivier FAURE via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 2 June 2017 at 14:17:10 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/DIP1003.md The "See the previous version" link at the end of the document is currently broken and leads to a 404. Thank you for your efforts and congratulations to Jared Hanson!

Re: DIP 1003 (Remove body as a Keyword) Accepted!

2017-06-05 Thread via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 3 June 2017 at 20:06:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/3/2017 12:28 AM, Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] wrote: Personally, making contracts less verbose and more powerful is much higher on my list We did discuss bouncing the DIP back with a request to revamp it as a complete overhaul of t