On 2015-12-27 00:55, Walter Bright wrote:
Many of the lowerings require semantic information that is not available
from ASTs.
Hence the "in theory" ;). It's hard to tell what would be possible to
implement with AST macros without implementing the complete macro system
and use it. Of course i
On 12/26/2015 4:05 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
There's a lot of stuff that Java doesn't have ;). In theory, all the lowerings
that the compiler already does could be implemented with AST macros. "scope" is
lowered to try-catch-finally, "foreach" is lowered to a "for" loop and so on.
Many of the
On 25/12/15 04:25, Jakob Jenkov wrote:
I think it depends a lot on your personal preference. For instance, I am
always annoyed about immutable types being forced upon me (okay, they
wouldn't be forced, but I'd have to work to get rid of them). I like
mutable types.
Yeah, we don't need to flip
On Friday, 25 December 2015 at 02:56:31 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 12/24/2015 5:25 AM, Joakim wrote:
Ah, I see you have it here instead:
https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/b90.html
Any idea why it's not indexed?
It's in the menu on the left.
Never mind, I looked some more and it is in
On Thursday, 24 December 2015 at 16:37:29 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
On 24/12/15 02:08, Walter Bright wrote:
This has resurfaced on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3xya5v/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_language/
In the comments, about the cluttered syntax. For the
attrib
On 12/24/2015 5:25 AM, Joakim wrote:
Ah, I see you have it here instead:
https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/b90.html
Any idea why it's not indexed?
It's in the menu on the left.
On Thursday, 24 December 2015 at 16:37:29 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
On 24/12/15 02:08, Walter Bright wrote:
This has resurfaced on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3xya5v/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_language/
In the comments, about the cluttered syntax. For the
attrib
On Thursday, 24 December 2015 at 13:03:03 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 12/23/2015 7:35 PM, Joakim wrote:
On Thursday, 24 December 2015 at 01:08:38 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
Time to give your old articles a better home, I think,
assuming you have the
copyright or can get it.
https://www.dig
On 24/12/15 02:08, Walter Bright wrote:
This has resurfaced on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3xya5v/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_language/
In the comments, about the cluttered syntax. For the attributes, due to
legacy reasons, it seems like D got all the defaults wron
On Thursday, 24 December 2015 at 13:21:45 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Thursday, 24 December 2015 at 13:03:03 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 12/23/2015 7:35 PM, Joakim wrote:
[...]
https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/b89.html
That's a different article, the Gimli one, not the one with
practical ad
On Thursday, 24 December 2015 at 13:03:03 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 12/23/2015 7:35 PM, Joakim wrote:
On Thursday, 24 December 2015 at 01:08:38 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
This has resurfaced on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3xya5v/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_languag
On 12/23/2015 7:35 PM, Joakim wrote:
On Thursday, 24 December 2015 at 01:08:38 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
This has resurfaced on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3xya5v/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_language/
Will you be moving that article and your other work to your own
On 12/24/2015 3:43 AM, Jakob Jenkov wrote:
I am working on a cloud project where we will also need to implement a little
language that can run inside our cloud. The constraints are quite different from
a general purpose language in terms of compilation / interpretation time, memory
usage etc. so
On Thursday, 24 December 2015 at 01:08:38 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
This has resurfaced on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3xya5v/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_language/
Hi Walther, interesting article. I guess it's like with
entrepreneurship in general. It's a lot of w
On Thursday, 24 December 2015 at 01:08:38 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
This has resurfaced on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3xya5v/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_language/
Very good article, thanks!
On Thursday, 24 December 2015 at 01:08:38 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
This has resurfaced on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3xya5v/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_language/
I might end up using this. It seems like there aren't many better
ways to really learn about programm
On Thursday, 24 December 2015 at 01:08:38 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
This has resurfaced on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3xya5v/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_language/
Will you be moving that article and your other work to your own
domain? One reddit commenter says th
This has resurfaced on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3xya5v/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_language/
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