Re: smile.amazon.com Promotion

2018-10-29 Thread Peter Alexander via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 29 October 2018 at 16:01:38 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: One of the easiest ways to support the D Language Foundation is using smile.amazon.com when you make a purchase. Until Nov 2, they're running a special where they're donating 5% (10 times the usual amount) you buy through

Re: A facebook group for D programmers

2018-09-16 Thread Peter Alexander via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 16 September 2018 at 20:19:32 UTC, Murilo wrote: Hello everyone, I was so amazed with the D language that I created a facebook group for us all to be connected and share information. It is called "Programming in D", it has already 55 members. Please join the group and invite

Re: D kernel for Jupyter notebook

2018-09-15 Thread Peter Alexander via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 19 August 2018 at 23:49:21 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote: On Sunday, 19 August 2018 at 20:33:45 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: [...] Note that the D repl will only work on platforms where drepl works i.e. platform with shared library support. It will _build_ on OSX due to

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-28 Thread Peter Alexander via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 28 March 2015 at 20:35:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/27/2015 12:34 PM, w0rp wrote: Sean Parent's advice for no raw loops comes to mind. https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/2013/Cpp-Seasoning With that rule, basically a one-line body for foreach becomes acceptable.

Re: Recent download statistics

2014-09-03 Thread Peter Alexander via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 at 09:20:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I recently got the access logs for dmd downloads through August (and Sep 1st). [snip] Nice! Will be interesting to see how much the recent increase contributes to sustained activity/growth. Any idea what caused the

Re: D for the Win

2014-08-20 Thread Peter Alexander via Digitalmars-d-announce
Ha, that opDollar thing in the HTML generator is the nastiest D hack I've seen :-P

Re: DConf Day 1 Panel with Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu

2014-06-27 Thread Peter Alexander via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 27 June 2014 at 23:30:39 UTC, safety0ff wrote: 2) With regard to reducing template instantiations: I've been using a technique similar to the one mentioned in the video: separating functions out of templates to reduce bloat. My question is: does a template such as: T foo(T)(T x) if

Re: DConf Day 1 Panel with Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu

2014-06-27 Thread Peter Alexander via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 28 June 2014 at 02:46:25 UTC, safety0ff wrote: On Saturday, 28 June 2014 at 02:02:28 UTC, Peter Alexander int a; const int b; immutable int c; foo(a); foo(b); foo(c); These all call foo!int Awesome, thanks! ... I just tried this and I'm wrong. The qualifier isn't stripped.

Re: Embarrassment of riches: another talk came online today

2014-06-11 Thread Peter Alexander via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 10 June 2014 at 16:30:31 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Leverage - my talk at Lang.NEXT. I think this is one of your better D talks. It's refreshing to see honest admittance of the shortcomings of D's features, although I think a little too much time was spent talking about