[OT] Windows PowerShell

2008-10-25 Thread Robert Fraser
Bill Baxter wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Yigal Chripun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Baxter wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Benji Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Baxter wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Benji Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Baxter wrote:

Re: Tango conference 2008 - Tomasz Stachowiak DDL talk

2008-11-18 Thread Robert Fraser
Peter Modzelewski wrote: I believe DDL is a project I don't need to introduce. Tom gave a great talk about it and his branch of the project showing the power of DDL and D. Video can be found here: http://petermodzelewski.blogspot.com/2008/11/tango-conference-2008-ddl-talk.html slides:

Re: DMD 1.037 and 2.020 releases

2008-11-25 Thread Robert Fraser
Walter Bright wrote: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.037.zip http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.021.zip 929 2326 fixed in D1... scope in D2... good times... Thanks Walter, Sean everyone else

Re: Scope storage class [Was: DMD 1.037 and 2.020 releases]

2008-11-26 Thread Robert Fraser
bearophile wrote: To test the new scoping features of D 2.021 I have used a small stressing program, coming from this page, originally by Knuth: http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Man_or_boy_test More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_or_boy_test My purpose is to see the D2 compiler being

Re: Descent 0.5.3 released

2009-01-20 Thread Robert Fraser
Ary Borenszweig wrote: Trass3r wrote: Ary Borenszweig schrieb: I think this point is pretty feasible. I can probably implement it as a view. The only problem is that if I do that, I'll also have to show the optimized version of the code (which might be very interesting). So if you have:

Re: d.vim

2009-02-02 Thread Robert Fraser
Chris Nicholson-Sauls wrote: How is my editor to know that when I use 'IConv.toString(...)' it means to issue private import IConv = tango .text .convert .Integer;? I call it IConv, too ;-P

Re: OT: Scripting on websites [Was: Re: QtD 0.1 is out!]

2009-02-05 Thread Robert Fraser
Nick Sabalausky wrote: Interesting side note: I've noticed that such flash-only pages and sites seem to be by far the most common among musicians and restaurant chains. Yup; I *hate* looking up tour dates. Don't get me started on actual Flash development... (I have the oh-so-wonderful luck

Re: Cristian Vlasceanu and D for the .NET platform

2009-03-12 Thread Robert Fraser
bearophile wrote: grauzone: Seems The Gods prefer having something like [...] Don't you see that what you say is negative? What you say lowers the mood of people, makes them nervous. What you say is worse than useless, has a net negative value. So I suggest you to change and try to build

Re: How compilers work

2009-03-12 Thread Robert Fraser
Walter Bright wrote: Looks like I'll be talking about building compilers at the next NWCPP meeting Wednesday Mar. 18. http://www.nwcpp.org/Meetings/2009/03.html Most awesome! I'll be there (and make a bootleg video for y'all who can't be there).

Re: dunit r247

2009-03-19 Thread Robert Fraser
bearophile wrote: For me it's often better to keep tests very close to the things they test. It helps me spot and fix bugs faster, to avoid jumping across files, and when I quickly move a block of code (function, class, template, etc) when I reorganize the code it is less likely for me to

Re: dmd 1.043 alpha for FreeBSD 7.1

2009-04-14 Thread Robert Fraser
Walter Bright wrote: Also, note that most bands put out their first CD as a self-titled one. In my collection (admittedly a small sample; 90 bands), only 6/13 self-titled albums are first albums.

Re: lyla 0.2

2009-05-01 Thread Robert Fraser
Frank Fischer wrote: LYLA is a matrix and linear-algebra library for large scale matrices. The library has been rewritten from scratch since version 0.1, so this version is effectively the first release. LYLA currently supports: * rectangular dense and sparse matrices * dense and sparse

Re: lyla 0.2

2009-05-01 Thread Robert Fraser
Frank Fischer wrote: On 2009-05-01, Robert Fraser fraseroftheni...@gmail.com wrote: Frank Fischer wrote: LYLA is a matrix and linear-algebra library for large scale matrices. AWESOME. Have sparse been implemented yet? I don't see them in the code tree? Yes, currently one sparse-format

Re: Planet D is back

2009-05-09 Thread Robert Fraser
Christian Kamm wrote: The Planet D aggregator at http://planet.dsource.org is being updated again! Thanks go to Anders Bergh, who made it and provided me with the necessary files. Thanks! What's the RSS URL?

Re: Planet D is back

2009-05-10 Thread Robert Fraser
Ary Borenszweig wrote: Robert Fraser escribió: Christian Kamm wrote: The Planet D aggregator at http://planet.dsource.org is being updated again! Thanks go to Anders Bergh, who made it and provided me with the necessary files. Thanks! What's the RSS URL? http://feeds.feedburner.com

Re: D Meeting at Kahili's in Kirkland Saturday at 11

2009-05-14 Thread Robert Fraser
Walter Bright wrote: For those in town. http://www.yelp.com/biz/kahili-coffee-kirkland Bring swords, shields, flame-throwers and Nomex. I think you're taking this whole live action role-playing thing too far.

Re: Descent 0.5.5 released

2009-05-21 Thread Robert Fraser
Saaa wrote: Is the executable name any of bud or bud.exe? I think that's what the process name is for Eclipse, and the links are associated to the process name (not to the name you choose for the external tool). :) May I suggest adjusting the filter to bud*.exe or add a note on dsource as I

Re: Taunting

2009-05-22 Thread Robert Fraser
Nick Sabalausky wrote: Saaa em...@needmail.com wrote in message news:gv6qcj$2ck...@digitalmars.com... If I could get that in a super fast, light programming editor, I'd use that instead. But I can't. Wasn't there an effort somewhere to port eclipse to D ? I have no idea, but that does

Re: OT: Flash (Was: Re: Taunting)

2009-05-22 Thread Robert Fraser
Daniel Keep wrote: The only way Flash will die if if at least the following happen: ... 5. Silverlight replaces it (and then we're all doomed).

Re: ldc 0.9.1 released

2009-05-28 Thread Robert Fraser
Walter Bright wrote: The D compiler source doesn't use any templates, rtti, or clever macro hacks. Whether it's well designed or not, I'll let others decide. It is written in a D-ish style. I ported part of the DMDFE to Java, and found it quite well-designed (with the exception of the

Re: the semi-resident thread pool

2009-05-30 Thread Robert Fraser
zsxxsz wrote: Hi, I written one thread pool in which each thread is semi-resident. The thread-pool is different from the Tango's one. Any thread of the thread-pool will exit when it is idle for the timeout. That is to say, all threads for jobs, and no job no thread. The thread-pool was from my C

Automatic translation from .h - .d using nothing but CTFE!

2009-06-12 Thread Robert Fraser
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Re: Automatic translation from .h - .d using nothing but CTFE!

2009-06-12 Thread Robert Fraser
Robert Fraser wrote: [...] BTW, the code is D1+Tango... it shouldn't be overly hard to port, though, since the only part of Tango it uses is tango.sys.SharedLibrary. As for D2, change char[] to string, and all should be good.

Re: MiniD 2 - Might as well be done

2009-06-16 Thread Robert Fraser
Jarrett Billingsley wrote: I'm bad at meeting deadlines. Partly because I mismanage my time, but a large part of it is also because being a perfectionist, I never know when to _stop working on something_. After nearly two years in development, I think I'm ready to call MiniD 2 gold.

Re: Descent generated documentation

2009-07-09 Thread Robert Fraser
Ary Borenszweig wrote: phobos: http://downloads.dsource.org/projects/descent/ddoc/phobos/ Tango: http://downloads.dsource.org/projects/descent/ddoc/tango/ *drool* I agree about the source code -- it's probably the main reason the Tango docs are so slow and it's useless 95% of the time.

Re: Descent generated documentation

2009-07-10 Thread Robert Fraser
Daniel Keep wrote: But this is quite cool; always nice to have another alternative. :) What are the other alternatives? The interlinks are all but necessary for larger/OO projects.

Re: C++0x Concepts - Dead?

2009-07-13 Thread Robert Fraser
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Jarrett Billingsley wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Andrei Alexandrescuseewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: Jarrett Billingsley wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Jarrett Billingsleyjarrett.billings...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:33 PM,

Re: Descent, now with Open Type Hierarchy

2009-07-30 Thread Robert Fraser
BCS wrote: will it find it if I ask out of order? Say, QDL? No... what's the use case there? JDT does have auto-corrections for misspellings of variables, though (I think based on Levishien distance, so it's dictionary-independent)... this might be intersting to add to autocomplete. So if

Re: reddit.com: first Chapter of TDPL available for free

2009-08-03 Thread Robert Fraser
Nick Sabalausky wrote: One little niggle though: At the end of the paragraph that explains the hello world's import statement, it says Repeated imports of the same file are of no import. Sounds like a typo snuck in there. Or a pun ;-P.

Re: std2.xml and std2.encoding for D 1.0 available at D source

2009-08-12 Thread Robert Fraser
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Michael Rynnmichaelr...@optushome.com.au wrote: I took away all the safety features of const, immutable and any other things that dmd 1.0 complains about, as recommended for the std2. Well, different people feel differently about these things. IMO, the