Re: The D Programming Language Vision Document

2022-07-06 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
Mike has our full support in his moderation policy and authority.

Re: The D Programming Language Vision Document

2022-07-06 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 6 July 2022 at 21:30:44 UTC, Dukc wrote: And I think there is still pretty much value in handling UTF-16 strings because that's what many other languages use. With the current vision, Phobos V2 won't handle UTF16 in place. We'll have to convert it to UTF8 before manipulation, whic

Re: The D Programming Language Vision Document

2022-07-06 Thread Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 6 July 2022 at 15:43:25 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote: On Wednesday, 6 July 2022 at 14:30:07 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: On Tuesday, 5 July 2022 at 12:34:57 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote: On Monday, 4 July 2022 at 05:30:10 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: [...] GC is one of D's strength because it is optiona

Re: The D Programming Language Vision Document

2022-07-06 Thread Dukc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 3 July 2022 at 20:16:35 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Sunday, 3 July 2022 at 19:32:56 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: It is required for string equivalent comparisons (which is what you should be doing in a LOT more cases! Anything user provided when compared should be normalized f

Re: The D Programming Language Vision Document

2022-07-06 Thread Dukc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 July 2022 at 08:34:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: [snip] I think that's a reasonable policy. The last thing any of us want is to stifle debate or censor opinions, but we feel that it's reasonable to ask people to participate in debates and express their opinions without upsetting oth

Re: The D Programming Language Vision Document

2022-07-06 Thread ryuukk_ via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 6 July 2022 at 14:30:07 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: On Tuesday, 5 July 2022 at 12:34:57 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote: On Monday, 4 July 2022 at 05:30:10 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On Sunday, 3 July 2022 at 08:46:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: You can find the final draft of the high-level goals fo

Re: The D Programming Language Vision Document

2022-07-06 Thread Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 5 July 2022 at 12:34:57 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote: On Monday, 4 July 2022 at 05:30:10 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On Sunday, 3 July 2022 at 08:46:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: You can find the final draft of the high-level goals for the D programming language at the following link: https://

Re: The D Programming Language Vision Document

2022-07-06 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 5 July 2022 at 11:49:20 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote: I am sad that no word on the Allocator API, moving forward i personally think APIs that use memory should be required to ask for an Allocator and do their allocation using it, and only it A default GCAllocator could be used if none provid