Re: Beta D 2.072.2-b1

2016-12-27 Thread safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 December 2016 at 04:36:54 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: This version resolves a number of regressions and bugs in the 2.072.1 release. I thought https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/1707 was in stable and slated for this point release. I see at the bottom of:

Re: Many documentation examples can now be run online

2016-12-23 Thread safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 24 December 2016 at 06:08:49 UTC, Saurabh Das wrote: Feedback: 1. It will be aesthetically better if the edit/run buttons are inside the code box, say just inside the right top corner. I agree the button placement should be improved, I think they should be immediately to the

Re: Battle-plan for CTFE

2016-05-16 Thread safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 16 May 2016 at 12:13:14 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Last time people forced me to spend several hours on reimplementing and debugging a BitArray implementation Ouch. src/tk/vec.(h|c) already contained an implementation.

Re: DConf 2015: Individual talk links from the livestream

2015-06-02 Thread safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
Thanks!

Re: Blog post on hidden treasure in the D standard library.

2014-08-30 Thread safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 06:00:31 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: i believe that those rules are useless and senseless now, so it's more like a one man crusade. It's not a one man's crusade, it affects legibility and creates dissonance within the text. It also appears

Re: Blog post on hidden treasure in the D standard library.

2014-08-30 Thread safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 07:59:16 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote: Stop being such a grammar nazi. I didn't bring it up because I felt like being pedantic, I brought it up as a suggestion to make it more pleasant to read. Since you've already been labelled as a pedant, perhaps you

Re: Blog post on hidden treasure in the D standard library.

2014-08-30 Thread safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
Just a correction: On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 10:44:20 UTC, safety0ff wrote: Since you've already been labelled as a pedant, perhaps you should learn the difference between pedantry and Nazism. I meant: Since you've already labelled *me* Anyways.

Re: Blog post on hidden treasure in the D standard library.

2014-08-28 Thread safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 28 August 2014 at 16:06:11 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote: Direct link: http://nomad.so/2014/08/hidden-treasure-in-the-d-standard-library/ What do you have against capitalizing 'I' ? It's annoying / distracting to read text filled with uncapitalised 'I's.

Re: D 2.066 new behavior

2014-08-21 Thread safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 22 August 2014 at 01:54:55 UTC, Paul D Anderson wrote: Is this expected behavior that has never been enforced before, or is it something new? And is anyone else having the same problem? Paul Looks like a regression, I've filed it here:

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-19 Thread safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 18 August 2014 at 23:18:46 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Monday, 18 August 2014 at 23:14:45 UTC, Dicebot wrote: I also propose to start 2.067 beta branch right now and declare it yet another bug-fixing release. Isn't this what point-releases are for, though? I agree, I think

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-19 Thread safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 20 August 2014 at 00:14:59 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote: On 8/20/14, 8:38 AM, safety0ff wrote: I agree, I think 2.066.next should be the focus considering the known issues of 2.066. Fear not, point releases will address known deficiencies. Btw, thank you for the good work

Re: DMD v2.066.0-rc2

2014-08-10 Thread safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 8 August 2014 at 12:01:43 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote: DMD v2.066.0-rc2 binaries are available for testing: http://wiki.dlang.org/Beta_Testing Probably too late but https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/3826 is an ICE wrong-code fix which requires review (green

Re: DMD v2.066.0-b4

2014-07-15 Thread safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 15 July 2014 at 22:40:02 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote: Outstanding regressions impeding release are: It would be nice if back-end issues got some attention prior to releases. For example: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9465 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11435

Re: DConf 2014 Day 2 Talk 4: Reducing D Bugs by Vladimir Panteleev

2014-07-10 Thread safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 9 July 2014 at 16:00:47 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2a8xf4/dconf_2014_day_2_talk_4_reducing_d_bugs_by/ https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/881813965165619 https://news.ycombinator.com/newest (please find and vote quickly)

Re: D Hackday Round 2

2014-07-06 Thread safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 3 July 2014 at 23:17:33 UTC, Jonathan Crapuchettes wrote: Last time 24 issues were marked as resolved by the community (including EMSI). Please join us in squashing bugs on #d. Is this primarily bug tracker culling or does it include PR reviewing, debugging, etc?

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

2014-06-28 Thread safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 28 June 2014 at 16:51:56 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote: Am 28.06.2014 05:33, schrieb Peter Alexander: 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);

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

2014-06-27 Thread safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
I have two questions that I've come upon lately: 1) How was it decided that there should be implicit conversion between signed and unsigned integers in arithmetic operations, and why prefer unsigned numbers? E.g. Signed / Unsigned = Unsigned Is this simply compatibility with C or is there

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

2014-06-27 Thread safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 28 June 2014 at 02:02:28 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote: 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

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

2014-06-27 Thread safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 28 June 2014 at 03:33:37 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote: ... I just tried this and I'm wrong. The qualifier isn't stripped. Gah! Three different versions! I could have sworn D did this for primitive types. This makes me sad :-( I guess you can make all kinds of code that depends

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-17 Thread safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 17 June 2014 at 22:09:06 UTC, Joakim wrote: I don't mind it as much, because I'm not bingeing on the talks and spreading out watching them instead, but it'd be nice to see the talks I missed on the livestream and want to watch now, rather than at some indeterminate date in the

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-30 Thread safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 30 May 2014 at 04:21:18 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote: 1. http://he-the-great.livejournal.com/52333.html Note that in the following code: import core.memory : GC; int* pxprime = cast(int*)GC.malloc(int.sizeof); version(none) assert(pxprime); // possibly zero GC.malloc

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-28 Thread safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 13:05:53 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: Whats wrong with If you think that, you have another thing coming.? I've always understood it sort of like say your Father saying: If you think that [i.e. you can steal your little brother's ice cream cone], then you have