Re: i18n

2012-02-03 Thread Alex_Dovhal
xancorreu xancor...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is there any way for localizate and internationalizate messages? I were shocked if D has something like Fantom [http://fantom.org/doc/docLang/Localization.html]. Gettext is pretty ugly ;-) I use small D script to internationalize Delphi projects.

Re: Segment violation (was Re: Why I could not cast string to int?)

2012-02-03 Thread Artur Skawina
On 02/03/12 00:20, Jonathan M Davis wrote: in is pointless on value types. All it does is make the function parameter const, which really doesn't do much for you, and in some instances, is really annoying. Personally, I see no point in using in unless the parameter is a reference type, and

Re: Segment violation (was Re: Why I could not cast string to int?)

2012-02-03 Thread Alex Rønne Petersen
On 03-02-2012 11:08, Artur Skawina wrote: On 02/03/12 00:20, Jonathan M Davis wrote: in is pointless on value types. All it does is make the function parameter const, which really doesn't do much for you, and in some instances, is really annoying. Personally, I see no point in using in unless

Re: Segment violation (was Re: Why I could not cast string to int?)

2012-02-03 Thread Artur Skawina
On 02/03/12 11:41, Artur Skawina wrote: On 02/03/12 11:21, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: On 03-02-2012 11:08, Artur Skawina wrote: On 02/03/12 00:20, Jonathan M Davis wrote: in is pointless on value types. All it does is make the function parameter const, which really doesn't do much for you,

why have protection attributes on/in interfaces abstract classes/methods no effect ouside a module?

2012-02-03 Thread dennis luehring
why have protection attributes on/in interfaces and abstract classes/methods no effect outside a module? module types; private interface itest { private static void blub(); public void blub2(); private void blub3(); } private class test { protected abstract void blub4(); public

Re: Segment violation (was Re: Why I could not cast string to int?)

2012-02-03 Thread Alex Rønne Petersen
On 03-02-2012 11:41, Artur Skawina wrote: On 02/03/12 11:21, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: On 03-02-2012 11:08, Artur Skawina wrote: On 02/03/12 00:20, Jonathan M Davis wrote: in is pointless on value types. All it does is make the function parameter const, which really doesn't do much for you,

Re: RPC module for D ?

2012-02-03 Thread luis
I think that It not would show D awesomeness. The code of D thrift serverclient looks more long and complex that Python, Perl and Ruby examples with xml-rpc ... Why not are something more simple ? I think that D allow to something in the line of these xml-rpc implementations in Python or Ruby.

Re: Segment violation (was Re: Why I could not cast string to int?)

2012-02-03 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Friday, February 03, 2012 11:08:54 Artur Skawina wrote: BTW, scope should have been the default for *all* reference type function arguments, with an explicit modifier, say esc, required to let the thing escape. It's an all-or-nothing thing, just like immutable strings - not using it

Re: Segment violation (was Re: Why I could not cast string to int?)

2012-02-03 Thread Artur Skawina
On 02/03/12 13:06, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Friday, February 03, 2012 11:08:54 Artur Skawina wrote: BTW, scope should have been the default for *all* reference type function arguments, with an explicit modifier, say esc, required to let the thing escape. It's an all-or-nothing thing, just

Re: Segment violation (was Re: Why I could not cast string to int?)

2012-02-03 Thread bearophile
Jonathan M Davis: in is pointless on value types. All it does is make the function parameter const, which really doesn't do much for you, and in some instances, is really annoying. Having const value types is useful because you can't change them later inside the method. This helps you avoid

Re: Segment violation (was Re: Why I could not cast string to int?)

2012-02-03 Thread bearophile
Artur Skawina: Would marking the ctor as scope (similarly to const or pure) work for your case? (it is reasonable to expect that the compiler checks this by itself; it's per-type, so not nearly as expensive as analyzing the flow) Maybe this is a topic worth discussing in the main D

Re: Why I could not cast string to int?

2012-02-03 Thread xancorreu
Al 02/02/12 20:11, En/na Ali Çehreli ha escrit: On 02/02/2012 11:00 AM, xancorreu wrote: Al 02/02/12 19:18, En/na bearophile ha escrit: Can I say serialize the first, second and third arguments as Class Person? I mean, if you define a class Person like: class Person { string name uint

Re: Why I could not cast string to int?

2012-02-03 Thread xancorreu
Al 02/02/12 20:40, En/na Jonathan M Davis ha escrit: And whether that's the best way to handle it depends on what you're trying to do in terms of user input and error messages. How on earth is all of that going to be handled generically? It all depends on what the programmer is trying to do.

Re: Segment violation (was Re: Why I could not cast string to int?)

2012-02-03 Thread xancorreu
Al 03/02/12 00:14, En/na bearophile ha escrit: xancorreu: But you only put a in in recFactorial function argument. What this mean? **Why** this is more efficient than mine? It wasn't meant to improve performance. in turns a function argument to input only (and eventually scoped too).

Re: i18n

2012-02-03 Thread xancorreu
Al 02/02/12 20:40, En/na Stewart Gordon ha escrit: On 02/02/2012 18:48, xancorreu wrote: Hi, Is there any way for localizate and internationalizate messages? I were shocked if D has something like Fantom [http://fantom.org/doc/docLang/Localization.html]. Gettext is pretty ugly ;-) Is this

Re: i18n

2012-02-03 Thread xancorreu
Al 03/02/12 09:09, En/na Alex_Dovhal ha escrit: xancorreuxancor...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is there any way for localizate and internationalizate messages? I were shocked if D has something like Fantom [http://fantom.org/doc/docLang/Localization.html]. Gettext is pretty ugly ;-) I use small D

Re: i18n

2012-02-03 Thread Trass3r
I deduce so that there is no official support for that. If it's, it's a pain. Pain? Writing such a system can be done in a couple of lines.

char[] and wchar[] cannot be used as OutputRange

2012-02-03 Thread Ali Çehreli
This I knew: Being UTF-8 and UTF-16 encodings, and because those encodings are variable-width, char[] and wchar[] cannot be RandomAccessRange ranges (dchar[] can be): import std.range; void main() { assert(!isRandomAccessRange!( char[])); assert(!isRandomAccessRange!(wchar[]));

Re: linker @ meaning and how to compile static libs

2012-02-03 Thread Trass3r
The main question is how do I either compile the library with the right version suffix (@12) Or get the linker to use the right version suffix (@8) That's no version suffix. It's the number of bytes of the arguments IIRC. Windows calling convention.

Re: char[] and wchar[] cannot be used as OutputRange

2012-02-03 Thread Daniel Murphy
char[] and wchar[] could still define a put method, which would make them output ranges. This is worth a bug report. Ali Çehreli acehr...@yahoo.com wrote in message news:jgh4a1$1286$1...@digitalmars.com... This I knew: Being UTF-8 and UTF-16 encodings, and because those encodings are

Re: Function signature constraint syntax

2012-02-03 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 06:51:56AM +0100, Philippe Sigaud wrote: Quick question: I have a function that takes an alias parameter: struct X { ... }; void func(alias G)(object O) { ... X x = ...; G(x); ...

Re: i18n

2012-02-03 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 09:03:54PM +0100, xancorreu wrote: Al 03/02/12 18:07, En/na Trass3r ha escrit: I deduce so that there is no official support for that. If it's, it's a pain. Pain? Writing such a system can be done in a couple of lines. How? I don't know how to do that. How to read

Re: i18n

2012-02-03 Thread xancorreu
Al 03/02/12 19:48, En/na DNewbie ha escrit: You can build multiple versions of you app: http://dsource.org/projects/tutorials/wiki/LocalesExample On Thu, Feb 2, 2012, at 07:48 PM, xancorreu wrote: Hi, Is there any way for localizate and internationalizate messages? I were shocked if D has

Re: i18n

2012-02-03 Thread Trass3r
Thanks a lot, So I just need to detect user locale using How to do that? You can always use the functions you would use in C.

Re: i18n

2012-02-03 Thread Mantis
03.02.2012 22:03, xancorreu пишет: Al 03/02/12 18:07, En/na Trass3r ha escrit: I deduce so that there is no official support for that. If it's, it's a pain. Pain? Writing such a system can be done in a couple of lines. How? I don't know how to do that. How to read user current locale? An

Re: i18n

2012-02-03 Thread DNewbie
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012, at 09:48 PM, Trass3r wrote: Thanks a lot, So I just need to detect user locale using How to do that? You can always use the functions you would use in C. You can see your language id in this page:

Re: How far can CTFE go?

2012-02-03 Thread Timon Gehr
On 02/03/2012 04:26 AM, Manfred Nowak wrote: H. S. Teoh wrote: I don't think that should be grounds to get rid of CTFE, though. In contrast to your remark, I do not see the benefits of reducing two compiling phases to one. For me CTFE ist nothing else than running the executables of a first

Re: How far can CTFE go?

2012-02-03 Thread Timon Gehr
On 02/03/2012 12:22 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote: I'm experimenting with pluggable expression parser modules, and I'm wondering if I can use CTFE to build parser tables and such. What are the current limitations of CTFE? Are dynamic arrays of structs supported? Associative arrays? What about

Re: Segment violation (was Re: Why I could not cast string to int?)

2012-02-03 Thread Timon Gehr
On 02/03/2012 11:08 AM, Artur Skawina wrote: On 02/03/12 00:20, Jonathan M Davis wrote: in is pointless on value types. All it does is make the function parameter const, which really doesn't do much for you, and in some instances, is really annoying. Personally, I see no point in using in

Re: Segment violation (was Re: Why I could not cast string to int?)

2012-02-03 Thread Timon Gehr
On 02/03/2012 01:06 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Friday, February 03, 2012 11:08:54 Artur Skawina wrote: BTW, scope should have been the default for *all* reference type function arguments, with an explicit modifier, say esc, required to let the thing escape. It's an all-or-nothing thing,

Re: How far can CTFE go?

2012-02-03 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 01:54:55AM +0100, Timon Gehr wrote: [...] On another level, how far are we expecting CTFE to go eventually? In my mind, the ideal situation would be that CTFE can replace writing an arbitrarily complex helper program that generates D code (either functions or data,

Re: Segment violation (was Re: Why I could not cast string to int?)

2012-02-03 Thread bearophile
Timon Gehr: However, it is nice that the shortest storage class, 'in', implies scope. I'd like to ask this to be valid, to shorten my code: alias immutable imm; Is this silly? Bye, bearophile

Re: How far can CTFE go?

2012-02-03 Thread Manfred Nowak
Timon Gehr wrote: You probably haven't made extensive use of the feature. That is correct. - needed for a third compilation, needed for a fourth compilation, needed for a fifth compilation ... Provide an example please and I will change my opinion. - better syntax, can do complex things

Re: Segment violation (was Re: Why I could not cast string to int?)

2012-02-03 Thread Daniel Murphy
bearophile bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote in message news:jgi3jn$2o6p$1...@digitalmars.com... I'd like to ask this to be valid, to shorten my code: alias immutable imm; Is this silly? Yes =) immutable might be more characters than you want to type, but at this point it's extremely unlikely

Re: How far can CTFE go?

2012-02-03 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 02:36:10AM +, Manfred Nowak wrote: [...] - better syntax, can do complex things without obfuscating the code If the codes for more than one _needed_ phase are tangled into one code base, I call that an obfuscated base. [...] One major advantage of CTFE that is

Associative array literal is non-constant?

2012-02-03 Thread H. S. Teoh
Why does the following code give a compiler error? static int[string] table = [abc:1, def:2, ghi:3]; Error message is: prog.d:3: Error: non-constant expression [abc:1,def:2,ghi:3] How is a literal non-constant? T -- GEEK = Gatherer of Extremely Enlightening Knowledge

Re: Associative array literal is non-constant?

2012-02-03 Thread Daniel Murphy
A limitation of the current implementation. Associative arrays are built on the heap, and you can't currently build things on the heap and have them exist at runtime. The best current workaround is probably: static int[string] table; static this() { table = [abc:1, def:2, ghi:3]; } or if

Re: Associative array literal is non-constant?

2012-02-03 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 10:18:18PM -0800, H. S. Teoh wrote: Why does the following code give a compiler error? static int[string] table = [abc:1, def:2, ghi:3]; Error message is: prog.d:3: Error: non-constant expression [abc:1,def:2,ghi:3] How is a literal non-constant?