Re: Memory Allocation

2017-03-29 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 11:01:12PM +, Enigma via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On Wednesday, 29 March 2017 at 21:36:14 UTC, Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] wrote: > > On Wednesday, 29 March 2017 at 19:19:48 UTC, Enigma wrote: > > > [...] > > > > It looks like you are looking for this: > >

Re: Memory Allocation

2017-03-29 Thread Enigma via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 29 March 2017 at 21:36:14 UTC, Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] wrote: On Wednesday, 29 March 2017 at 19:19:48 UTC, Enigma wrote: [...] It looks like you are looking for this: http://dlang.org/phobos-prerelease/std_experimental_allocator_building_blocks_region.html. But these seem to

Re: Memory Allocation

2017-03-29 Thread via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 29 March 2017 at 19:19:48 UTC, Enigma wrote: I have a memory buffer allocated using different methods. It is simply a pointer and a size. I would like to be able to manage this buffer by treating it as a memory pool or heap. I think I can use allocators to do this but not sure

Re: Memory Allocation

2017-03-29 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 2017-03-29 23:30, Faux Amis wrote: On 2017-03-29 21:19, Enigma wrote: I have a memory buffer allocated using different methods. It is simply a pointer and a size. Can you maybe just tread it like an array and slice it for allocation? *treat*

Re: Memory Allocation

2017-03-29 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 2017-03-29 21:19, Enigma wrote: I have a memory buffer allocated using different methods. It is simply a pointer and a size. Can you maybe just tread it like an array and slice it for allocation?

Re: Why is this legal?

2017-03-29 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 11:24:04AM -0700, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On Wednesday, March 29, 2017 10:08:02 abad via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > > Related question, it seems that final methods are allowed in > > interfaces. Obviously you can't implement them anywhere, so is

Memory Allocation

2017-03-29 Thread Enigma via Digitalmars-d-learn
I have a memory buffer allocated using different methods. It is simply a pointer and a size. I would like to be able to manage this buffer by treating it as a memory pool or heap. I think I can use allocators to do this but not sure how. Effectively I want something like new or malloc but

Re: Why is this legal?

2017-03-29 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, March 29, 2017 10:08:02 abad via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > Related question, it seems that final methods are allowed in > interfaces. Obviously you can't implement them anywhere, so is > this also on purpose and on what rationale? :) If the function is final, it can have an

Re: What is the state of scope function parameter?

2017-03-29 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 29 March 2017 at 05:15:33 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: scope: references in the parameter cannot be escaped (e.g. assigned to a global variable). Ignored for parameters with no references However, it doesn't behave that way. For example, my example here currently

Re: Why is this legal?

2017-03-29 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 29 March 2017 at 11:17:48 UTC, abad wrote: Yes, does make sense. I was looking this from Java 7 perspective where interfaces can't implement any methods. D did not support them either for much of its history. IIRC, we got them at some point after Java did.

Re: What is the state of scope function parameter?

2017-03-29 Thread via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 29 March 2017 at 05:15:33 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: [..] How would you change the text there? scope: references in the parameter cannot be escaped (e.g. assigned to a global variable) in @safe code when compiled with -dip1000. Ignored for parameters with no

Re: What is the state of scope function parameter?

2017-03-29 Thread via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 29 March 2017 at 05:15:33 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: (More correctly, "scope storage class".) https://dlang.org/spec/function.html#Parameter still says scope: references in the parameter cannot be escaped (e.g. assigned to a global variable). Ignored for

Re: Why is this legal?

2017-03-29 Thread abad via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 29 March 2017 at 11:06:55 UTC, Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] wrote: On Wednesday, 29 March 2017 at 10:12:08 UTC, abad wrote: On Wednesday, 29 March 2017 at 10:08:02 UTC, abad wrote: Related question, it seems that final methods are allowed in interfaces. Obviously you can't implement

Re: Why is this legal?

2017-03-29 Thread via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 29 March 2017 at 10:12:08 UTC, abad wrote: On Wednesday, 29 March 2017 at 10:08:02 UTC, abad wrote: Related question, it seems that final methods are allowed in interfaces. Obviously you can't implement them anywhere, so is this also on purpose and on what rationale? :) So

Re: Why is this legal?

2017-03-29 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, March 29, 2017 10:08:02 abad via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > Related question, it seems that final methods are allowed in > interfaces. Obviously you can't implement them anywhere, so is > this also on purpose and on what rationale? :) If the function is final, it can have an

Re: Why is this legal?

2017-03-29 Thread abad via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 29 March 2017 at 10:08:02 UTC, abad wrote: Related question, it seems that final methods are allowed in interfaces. Obviously you can't implement them anywhere, so is this also on purpose and on what rationale? :) So actually it's just a question of not catching this mistake

Re: Why is this legal?

2017-03-29 Thread abad via Digitalmars-d-learn
Related question, it seems that final methods are allowed in interfaces. Obviously you can't implement them anywhere, so is this also on purpose and on what rationale? :)

Re: Why is this legal?

2017-03-29 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, March 29, 2017 10:56:34 rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d- learn wrote: > On 29/03/2017 10:50 AM, abad wrote: > > This works: > > > > class Foo { > > > > protected void bar() { > > > > writeln("hello from foo"); > > > > } > > > > } > > > > void main() { > > > >

Re: Why is this legal?

2017-03-29 Thread abad via Digitalmars-d-learn
Never mind, it's working OK if the class is defined in another module.

Re: Why is this legal?

2017-03-29 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 29/03/2017 10:50 AM, abad wrote: This works: class Foo { protected void bar() { writeln("hello from foo"); } } void main() { auto foo = new Foo; foo.bar(); } Is this on purpose and what's the rationale? http://dlang.org/spec/attribute.html#visibility_attributes

Why is this legal?

2017-03-29 Thread abad via Digitalmars-d-learn
This works: class Foo { protected void bar() { writeln("hello from foo"); } } void main() { auto foo = new Foo; foo.bar(); } Is this on purpose and what's the rationale?

Re: C++ namespace mangling: bug or me being stupid?

2017-03-29 Thread Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 28 March 2017 at 16:30:19 UTC, kinke wrote: That's a mangling compression scheme (possibly tunable via gcc options), from https://github.com/gchatelet/gcc_cpp_mangling_documentation: To save space a compression scheme is used where symbols that appears multiple times are then

Re: What is the state of scope function parameter?

2017-03-29 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, March 28, 2017 22:15:33 Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > (More correctly, "scope storage class".) > >https://dlang.org/spec/function.html#Parameter > > still says > >scope: references in the parameter cannot be escaped > (e.g. assigned to a global

Re: How to continue after the book?

2017-03-29 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 29 March 2017 at 05:53:22 UTC, I Lindström wrote: Thanks all. Your answers gave me a lot more confidence in starting. What I've always found to be the hardest is to know what you can do, and that's what I use books for. "Can" in the sense of what's possible and how. These forums