Re: Beta 2.079.0

On Wednesday, 21 February 2018 at 16:58:22 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 02:46:56PM +, psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: [...] Syntax is EVERYTHING. It can make or break a language. And semantics doesn't matter. :-D T assert("easy on the eyes" == "easy

Re: NWCPP (and D) Meeting at Microsoft Wednesday Evening

Mugshots Bar, 156th Avenue Northeast, Bellevue, WA On 2/21/2018 11:04 AM, Bill Baxter wrote: Where do you go now that the Celtic Bayou is closed? --bb On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 7:37 PM, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce > wrote: http://nw

Re: NWCPP (and D) Meeting at Microsoft Wednesday Evening

Oh, forgot . :-) On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:04 AM, Bill Baxter wrote: > Where do you go now that the Celtic Bayou is closed? > --bb > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 7:37 PM, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce > wrote: > >> http://nwcpp.org/ >> >> I plan to be there; a bunch of Seattle area D

Re: NWCPP (and D) Meeting at Microsoft Wednesday Evening

Where do you go now that the Celtic Bayou is closed? --bb On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 7:37 PM, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > http://nwcpp.org/ > > I plan to be there; a bunch of Seattle area D folks come regularly. We > hear the presentation

Re: Beta 2.079.0

On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 14:46:56 +, psychoticRabbit wrote: > how on earth can anyone approve, that syntax like that, can become part > of the D Programming language? > > I'm really bewildered. > > Syntax is EVERYTHING. It can make or break a language. It does make sense in moderation for quick

Re: Beta 2.079.0

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 02:46:56PM +, psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: [...] > Syntax is EVERYTHING. It can make or break a language. And semantics doesn't matter. :-D T -- Let's not fight disease by killing the patient. -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry

Re: Beta 2.079.0

On Wednesday, 21 February 2018 at 15:33:02 UTC, Joakim wrote: I thought about chiming in on that PR when it was open, but didn't because the vote was split at 5-5 and I thought it wouldn't get merged. Also, I'm not against the idea in principle, but I do wish you'd chosen better syntax, such

Re: Beta 2.079.0

On Tuesday, 20 February 2018 at 08:43:50 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Monday, 19 February 2018 at 15:58:57 UTC, Joakim wrote: 17. Allow multiple selective imports from different modules in a single import statement I have a bad feeling that that one is going to be a source of a raft of bugs fo

Please submit to DConf 2018!

With the Feb 25 deadline looming, allow me to holler to everyone who has worked on great things in the D language through the past year: please make a DConf 2018 submission! By all measures there's been significant pick up in contributions to the D language during the recent months, and it wou

Re: Beta 2.079.0

On Wednesday, 21 February 2018 at 10:15:48 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Wednesday, February 21, 2018 10:04:01 Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Tuesday, 20 February 2018 at 22:54:43 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > Yeah, personally I'd avoid writing it that way too. There's no other way t

Re: Beta 2.079.0

On Wednesday, 21 February 2018 at 10:47:45 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote: On Wednesday, 21 February 2018 at 10:24:41 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi wrote: On Wednesday, 21 February 2018 at 10:15:48 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Wednesday, February 21, 2018 10:04:01 Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote

Re: Beta 2.079.0

On Wednesday, February 21, 2018 10:24:41 Paolo Invernizzi via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > On Wednesday, 21 February 2018 at 10:15:48 UTC, Jonathan M Davis > > wrote: > > On Wednesday, February 21, 2018 10:04:01 Kagamin via > > > > Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 20 February 2018

Re: Beta 2.079.0

On Wednesday, 21 February 2018 at 10:24:41 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi wrote: On Wednesday, 21 February 2018 at 10:15:48 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Wednesday, February 21, 2018 10:04:01 Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Tuesday, 20 February 2018 at 22:54:43 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > Y

Re: Beta 2.079.0

On Tuesday, 20 February 2018 at 22:54:43 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 10:19:03PM +, John Gabriele via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: [...] Thanks. Is the point to be able to string a bunch of selective imports together, as in: import pkg.mod1 : sym1, sym2, pkg.mod2 : s

Re: Beta 2.079.0

On Wednesday, 21 February 2018 at 10:15:48 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Wednesday, February 21, 2018 10:04:01 Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Tuesday, 20 February 2018 at 22:54:43 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > Yeah, personally I'd avoid writing it that way too. There's no other way t

Re: Beta 2.079.0

On Wednesday, February 21, 2018 10:04:01 Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Tuesday, 20 February 2018 at 22:54:43 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > Yeah, personally I'd avoid writing it that way too. > > There's no other way to use this feature though. Some of us think that it's a bad featur

Re: Beta 2.079.0

On Tuesday, 20 February 2018 at 22:54:43 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Yeah, personally I'd avoid writing it that way too. There's no other way to use this feature though.