Re: Amber

2013-04-19 Thread Suliman
On Friday, 21 December 2012 at 18:02:30 UTC, Lars Ivar Igesund wrote: Dear D community, I've been urged by many others to post about Amber here. It is a programming language being derived from D1, with a compiler written using D1 and Tango, with LLVM and C backends. The quality of code

Re: Amber

2013-04-19 Thread qznc
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:35:51 +0200: Suliman wrote On Friday, 21 December 2012 at 18:02:30 UTC, Lars Ivar Igesund wrote: Dear D community, I've been urged by many others to post about Amber here. It is a programming language being derived from D1, with a compiler written using D1 and Tango

Re: Amber

2013-04-19 Thread Leandro Lucarella
qznc, el 19 de April a las 17:55 me escribiste: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:35:51 +0200: Suliman wrote On Friday, 21 December 2012 at 18:02:30 UTC, Lars Ivar Igesund wrote: Dear D community, I've been urged by many others to post about Amber here. It is a programming language being derived

Re: Amber

2013-01-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/21/12 1:02 PM, Lars Ivar Igesund wrote: Dear D community, I've been urged by many others to post about Amber here. It is a programming language being derived from D1, with a compiler written using D1 and Tango, with LLVM and C backends. The quality of code and documention is alpha (or pre

Re: Amber

2013-01-05 Thread nazriel
On Friday, 21 December 2012 at 18:02:30 UTC, Lars Ivar Igesund wrote: Dear D community, I've been urged by many others to post about Amber here. It is a programming language being derived from D1, with a compiler written using D1 and Tango, with LLVM and C backends. The quality of code

Re: Amber

2012-12-29 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-12-21 19:02, Lars Ivar Igesund wrote: Dear D community, I've been urged by many others to post about Amber here. It is a programming language being derived from D1, with a compiler written using D1 and Tango, with LLVM and C backends. The quality of code and documention is alpha (or pre

Re: Amber

2012-12-27 Thread renoX
On Monday, 24 December 2012 at 00:34:29 UTC, Kelly wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2012 at 21:02:21 UTC, Faux Amis wrote: On 21/12/2012 19:02, Lars Ivar Igesund wrote: Dear D community, I've been urged by many others to post about Amber here. It is a programming language being derived from

Re: Amber

2012-12-27 Thread Leandro Lucarella
renoX, el 27 de December a las 10:16 me escribiste: On Monday, 24 December 2012 at 00:34:29 UTC, Kelly wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2012 at 21:02:21 UTC, Faux Amis wrote: On 21/12/2012 19:02, Lars Ivar Igesund wrote: Dear D community, I've been urged by many others to post about Amber

Re: Amber

2012-12-25 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-12-25 05:22, Kelly wrote: No, Amber is not backwards compatible with D1. That is not it's purpose. It is probably close enough to 'fairly easily' convert D1 code (ie. converting Tango hasn't been a huge ordeal). I thought so, it looks pretty compatible. -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: Amber

2012-12-25 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-12-25 04:06, Walter Bright wrote: I don't particularly like inner classes (I find them confusing), but they were added specifically to support DWT and make conversions from existing Java code easier. I'm grateful for that, thank you. -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: Amber

2012-12-24 Thread Walter Bright
On 12/24/2012 2:52 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: If you want to be able to use DWT it might be a good idea to support inner classes. If I recall correctly they are used in DWT. I don't particularly like inner classes (I find them confusing), but they were added specifically to support DWT and

Re: Amber

2012-12-24 Thread Kelly
On Monday, 24 December 2012 at 10:46:24 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2012-12-21 19:02, Lars Ivar Igesund wrote: Dear D community, I've been urged by many others to post about Amber here. It is a programming language being derived from D1, with a compiler written using D1 and Tango

Re: Amber

2012-12-23 Thread bearophile
Kelly: Might be incomplete, but here is the start of a list: https://bitbucket.org/larsivi/amber/wiki/Diff_D1 Thank you for the link, it's an interesting list of differences. Some comments: No comma expression We have had some discussions to disallow the comma operator in D2 too

Re: Amber

2012-12-22 Thread Faux Amis
On 21/12/2012 19:02, Lars Ivar Igesund wrote: Dear D community, I've been urged by many others to post about Amber here. It is a programming language being derived from D1, with a compiler written using D1 and Tango, with LLVM and C backends. The quality of code and documention is alpha (or pre

Amber

2012-12-21 Thread Lars Ivar Igesund
Dear D community, I've been urged by many others to post about Amber here. It is a programming language being derived from D1, with a compiler written using D1 and Tango, with LLVM and C backends. The quality of code and documention is alpha (or pre-alpha). Project page: https

Re: Amber

2012-12-21 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-12-21 19:02, Lars Ivar Igesund wrote: Dear D community, I've been urged by many others to post about Amber here. It is a programming language being derived from D1, with a compiler written using D1 and Tango, with LLVM and C backends. The quality of code and documention is alpha (or pre

Re: Amber

2012-12-21 Thread bearophile
Lars Ivar Igesund: Project page: https://bitbucket.org/larsivi/amber Seems a good idea to test some alternative designs, alternative features and alternative ideas. What are the differences (present or planned) between D1 and Amber? Bye, bearophile