date:20090824

Re: Compiler Construction seminar, Sep 20-22

2009-08-24 Thread Walter Bright

Benji Smith wrote: Walter Bright wrote: In Astoria, Oregon, on September 20-22 I'll be hosting a Compiler Construction seminar along with Cristian Vlasceanu. http://www.astoriaseminar.com/compiler-construction.html It'll be a two day intensive course in how compilers work and how to build

Re: Scala future, Sing#

2009-08-24 Thread bearophile

Jari-Matti M.: There are certainly truckloads of features that could be taken from Scala to D. But D2 is already quite complex, so it's better to add things carefully. For example patterm matching is useful, but it adds a lot of complexity too. But I'm afraid that the desire to have

Re: D features - wanna start project

2009-08-24 Thread Thorsten Kiefer

Thanks a lot ot everybody who answered !!! toki Wrote: Hi, I love D, and after using Java for years I want to switch back to D. I'm too lazy to google, and so wanna ask you. 1. Is D still under development ? Is it still supported ? 2. Which GUI lib would you suggest - which is the most

Re: Scala future, Sing#

2009-08-24 Thread Walter Bright

Jari-Matti Mäkelä wrote: bearophile wrote: As Sing# (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_sharp ) and Chapel, Scala is one of the languages to be followed more, because they share some of future purposes of D2/D3. A small presentation about the close future of Scala (it's not a general

Turkish 'I's can't D either

2009-08-24 Thread Ali Cehreli

You may be aware of the problems related to the consistency of the two separate letter 'I's in the Turkish alphabet (and the alphabets that are based on the Turkish alphabet). Lowercase and uppercase versions of the two are consistent in whether they have a dot or not:

Re: Scala future, Sing#

2009-08-24 Thread Ary Borenszweig

Walter Bright escribió: Jari-Matti Mäkelä wrote: bearophile wrote: - OOP: Scala supports dynamic OOP optimizations unlike D (unless a VM is used). Do you mean knowing a class or virtual method has no descendants? Sure, you need to know the whole program to do that, or just declare it as

Re: At compile time

2009-08-24 Thread Don

bearophile wrote: Don: Using CTFE will be a completely different experience after the next release. What kind of limits do you want to lift? :-) The unpredictability, mainly. Currently, it's really easy to write code that you'd expect would work in CTFE, but doesn't. Sometimes because of

threads

2009-08-24 Thread asdf

I just downloaded dmd 2.031 and it does not contain std.thread. Why not?

Re: threads

2009-08-24 Thread Jarrett Billingsley

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:19 PM, asdfa...@fdsa.asdf wrote: I just downloaded dmd 2.031 and it does not contain std.thread. Why not? Because several releases ago, std.thread was replaced by core.thread. http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html#new2_020 For some reason the Phobos docs