On 09/23/2013 06:34 AM, Daniel Davidson wrote:
> I've stepped away from D for several months and just getting
> back into it.
> the first time at D Conf
Actually, I've been thinking about you recently. My apologies for
forgetting your last name. That's why I couldn't recognize you. :(
> I wi
On Sunday, 22 September 2013 at 17:26:01 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
You are not alone. I tried to answer some of these questions in
my DConf 2013 talk. I think I have only scratched the surface:
http://dconf.org/talks/cehreli.html
Ali
Ali, thank you for providing great feedback and suggestion
On 09/19/2013 03:07 PM, Daniel Davidson wrote:
> Here is a setup: Data is coming in - say over the wire or from a
> database. It is very rich data with nestings of primitives, lists and
> string keyed associative arrays, recursively - think nested json. Once
> a data object is read in it is passe
On Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 20:05:34 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
As soon as you have a const or immutable member in a struct,
you can't ever
assign anything to it, even if all of its other members are
mutable (you could
assign the individual, mutable members but not the whole
struct). Th
Jonathan M Davis:
All in all, I think that it's pretty much always a bad idea to
have a struct
with const or immutable members. It's just begging for
problems. Tail-const or
tail-immutable is fine, because the members themselves aren't
const or
immutable (just what they refer to), but having t
On Thursday, September 19, 2013 18:47:12 Daniel Davidson wrote:
> Multi-part question:
>
> 1) Why does the last line fail? If cast to immutable how is it
> different than z? I know it is related to the ref. I'm using ref
> because I think it is likely more efficient - so assume the
> char[16] were
On Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 16:50:32 UTC, Namespace wrote:
cast(immutable)data) is not an lvalue, it's a rvalue. ref
accepts only lvalues.
Thanks... about the other questions?
On Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 16:47:13 UTC, Daniel Davidson
wrote:
Multi-part question:
1) Why does the last line fail? If cast to immutable how is it
different than z? I know it is related to the ref. I'm using
ref because I think it is likely more efficient - so assume the
char[16] were
Multi-part question:
1) Why does the last line fail? If cast to immutable how is it
different than z? I know it is related to the ref. I'm using ref
because I think it is likely more efficient - so assume the
char[16] were really char[1024].
2) If I got rid of the ref, how many copies of the
