Re: remake of remake of Konami's Knightmare

On 11/24/2017 08:28 PM, ketmar wrote: quickfix. forgot to properly set requested OpenGL version. http://files.catbox.moe/lx02hz.7z Very cool! Works under wine for me. Not a game I was familiar with, so it's cool learning hands-on about more of Konami's back catalog from one of the best

[Issue 15984] [REG2.071] Interface contracts retrieve garbage instead of parameters

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15984 --- Comment #16 from MichaelZ --- (In reply to robin.kupper from comment #15) > While the first example works now, parameters in out contracts on interface > functions are still garbage. > > See example

Re: Localization (i18n) Options

On Sunday, 24 January 2016 at 19:18:28 UTC, Gerald wrote: On Monday, 18 January 2016 at 09:04:48 UTC, Luis wrote: Please, write a HowTo some where. GtkD lack of documentation it's very anoying. I've gotten this going with Terminix and posted some information what it took to get it going

Re: Thoughts about D

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 06:24:38 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 06:12:19 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 11/27/2017 9:11 PM, rikki cattermole wrote: On 28/11/2017 5:03 AM, Walter Bright wrote: On 11/27/2017 6:55 PM, John wrote: Should add optlink to that

Re: Thoughts about D

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 05:11:25 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 28/11/2017 5:03 AM, Walter Bright wrote: On 11/27/2017 6:55 PM, John wrote: Should add optlink to that list, would love to see it converted to D! So would I, but there's no chance of that (unless someone else wants to

Re: Thoughts about D

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 17:35:53 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grostad wrote: C++ is very much batteries not included... Which is good for low level programming. In that case, why is libstdc++ 12MB, while libphobos2 is half the size, at 5.5MB?

Re: Tried C++ to D. Wrong result.

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 19:01:28 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: P.S. I think you have an unnecessary 'ref' on the D version because a slice is already a reference to elements: Fixed, thank you.

Re: Thoughts about D

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 06:12:19 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 11/27/2017 9:11 PM, rikki cattermole wrote: On 28/11/2017 5:03 AM, Walter Bright wrote: On 11/27/2017 6:55 PM, John wrote: Should add optlink to that list, would love to see it converted to D! We have discussed this on

Re: Is variable void?

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 05:10:39 UTC, bauss wrote: null != void also...void is a completely useless concept for initialisation. what can you determine about the nothingness of void? ... nothing. writeln(typeof(void).stringof); // ?? what do I know now? nothing. vs Nullable!int x;

Re: Thoughts about D

On 11/27/2017 9:11 PM, rikki cattermole wrote: On 28/11/2017 5:03 AM, Walter Bright wrote: On 11/27/2017 6:55 PM, John wrote: Should add optlink to that list, would love to see it converted to D! So would I, but there's no chance of that (unless someone else wants to pick up that flag).

Re: First Impressions!

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 05:16:54 UTC, Michael V. Franklin wrote: On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 04:48:57 UTC, A Guy With an Opinion wrote: I'd be happy to submit an issue, but I'm not quite sure I'd be the best to determine an error message (at least not this early). Mainly because

Re: Thoughts about D

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 04:52:52 UTC, bauss wrote: You're not measuring what you think for the Java program. Did you calculate the runtime and JIT initialization time and subtracted that from the actual execution time? Otherwise your benchmark isn't sufficient. For small programs,

Re: First Impressions!

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 04:48:57 UTC, A Guy With an Opinion wrote: I'd be happy to submit an issue, but I'm not quite sure I'd be the best to determine an error message (at least not this early). Mainly because I have no clue what it was yelling at me about. I only new to add static

Re: Is variable void?

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 05:10:39 UTC, bauss wrote: null != void "initialized or not?" != void

Re: Thoughts about D

On 28/11/2017 5:03 AM, Walter Bright wrote: On 11/27/2017 6:55 PM, John wrote: Should add optlink to that list, would love to see it converted to D! So would I, but there's no chance of that (unless someone else wants to pick up that flag). Years ago, I attempted to convert it to C. It was

Re: Is variable void?

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 02:12:40 UTC, codephantom wrote: On Saturday, 25 November 2017 at 15:34:21 UTC, John Chapman wrote: Is there any way of determining whether a variable has been initialized or not? For example, if something is declared like this: int x = void; can I check if

Re: Thoughts about D

On 11/27/2017 6:55 PM, John wrote: Should add optlink to that list, would love to see it converted to D! So would I, but there's no chance of that (unless someone else wants to pick up that flag). Years ago, I attempted to convert it to C. It was possible, but an agonizingly slow process.

Re: Thoughts about D

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 02:26:34 UTC, Neia Neutuladh wrote: You might try reading my first post. Java: 140ms to print "Hello world" D: 50ms to turn a 400kb subtex document into an epub You're not measuring what you think for the Java program. Did you calculate the runtime and JIT

Re: First Impressions!

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 04:37:04 UTC, Michael V. Franklin wrote: Please submit things like this to the issue tracker. They are very easy to fix, and if I'm aware of them, I'll probably do the work. But, please provide a code example and offer a suggestion of what you would prefer it

Re: First Impressions!

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 03:01:33 UTC, A Guy With an Opinion wrote: + D code so far is pushing me towards more "flat" code (for a lack of a better way to phrase it) and so far that has helped tremendously when it comes to readability. C# kind is the opposite. With it's namespace ->

Re: First Impressions!

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 04:24:46 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: immutable(int) errorCount() { return ...; } I actually did try something like that, because I remembered seeing the parens around the string definition. I think at that point I was just so riddled with errors I just took a

Re: Thoughts about D

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 08:33:42 UTC, IM wrote: - More exposure. I sometimes feel like there isn't enough D material to consume on a regular basis (and I and certainly many others are eager to learn more and more about the language). i.e. one blog post (weekly?), and a single DConf

Re: Precise GC state

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 18:32:39 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: You get this: shared_ptr -> control_block -> object Actually, seems like the common implementation uses 16 bytes, so that it has a direct pointer as well. So twice the size of unique_ptr.

Re: First Impressions!

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 04:19:40 UTC, A Guy With an Opinion wrote: Also, C and C++ didn't just have undefined behavior, sometimes it has inconsistent behavior. Sometimes int a; is actually set to 0. set to?

Re: First Impressions!

A Guy With an Opinion wrote: Eh...I still don't agree. anyway, it is something that won't be changed, 'cause there may be code that rely on current default values. i'm not really trying to change your mind, i just tried to give a rationale behind the choice. that's why `char.init` is 255

Re: First Impressions!

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 03:01:33 UTC, A Guy With an Opinion wrote: - Some of the errors from DMD are a little strange. Yes, indeed, and many of them don't help much in finding the real source of your problem. I think improvements to dmd's error reporting would be the #1 productivity

Re: First Impressions!

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 04:17:18 UTC, A Guy With an Opinion wrote: On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 04:12:14 UTC, ketmar wrote: A Guy With an Opinion wrote: That is true, but I'm still unconvinced that making the person's program likely to error is better than initializing a number to

Re: First Impressions!

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 04:12:14 UTC, ketmar wrote: A Guy With an Opinion wrote: That is true, but I'm still unconvinced that making the person's program likely to error is better than initializing a number to 0. Zero is such a fundamental default for so many things. And it would be

Re: First Impressions!

A Guy With an Opinion wrote: That is true, but I'm still unconvinced that making the person's program likely to error is better than initializing a number to 0. Zero is such a fundamental default for so many things. And it would be consistent with the other number types. basically, default

Re: First Impressions!

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 03:37:26 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Its on our TODO list. Allocators need to come out of experimental and some form of RC before we tackle it again. In the mean time https://github.com/economicmodeling/containers is pretty good. That's good to hear. I

Re: First Impressions!

On 28/11/2017 3:01 AM, A Guy With an Opinion wrote: Hi, I've been using D for a personal project for about two weeks now and just thought I'd share my initial impression just in case it's useful! I like feedback on things I do, so I just assume others do to. Plus my opinion is the best on

Re: First Impressions!

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 03:01:33 UTC, A Guy With an Opinion wrote: - ...however, where are all of the collections? No Queue? No Stack? No HashTable? I've read that it's not a big focus because some of the built in stuff *can* behave like those things. The C# project I'm porting

First Impressions!

Hi, I've been using D for a personal project for about two weeks now and just thought I'd share my initial impression just in case it's useful! I like feedback on things I do, so I just assume others do to. Plus my opinion is the best on the internet! You will see (hopefully the sarcasm is

Re: Thoughts about D

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 23:13:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 11/27/2017 7:16 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 11/26/17 9:56 PM, Walter Bright wrote: I have recently finished converting the Digital Mars C++ compiler front end from "C with classes" to D. I did a double-take on this.

Re: Looking for a job in USA

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 02:32:58 UTC, Joakim wrote: Yes, I was only talking about your statements about there not being a moderator and implying forum posts couldn't be deleted, as should be clear from the rest of what I wrote. It certainly looks like at least one post has been

Re: Thoughts about D

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 02:26:34 UTC, Neia Neutuladh wrote: On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 17:35:53 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grostad wrote: On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 16:44:41 UTC, Neia Neutuladh wrote: I last used C++ professionally in 2015, and we were still rolling out C++11.

Re: A note on troll engagement

On 11/27/2017 11:57 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: I don't use the web interface for the newsgroup, and I have no interest in doing so. I use the mailing list. The same goes for many of the major contributors. Others use the newsgroup directly. IMHO, being stuck with any form of forum software

Re: tour.dlang.org is less than useless

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 02:18:09 UTC, codephantom wrote: If I work it out, I'll post back what i found. ok. just needed to update firefox from (47.x to 57.x) and now it works. so 2 months after discovering D, i can finally take the tour ;-)

Re: Looking for a job in USA

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 02:19:52 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 20:07:34 UTC, Joakim wrote: btw. I read somewhere that this forum software can't delete threads. That sounds pretty silly. Even sillier if it's true. It's not true, despite what Mike said

Re: Thoughts about D

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 17:35:53 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grostad wrote: On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 16:44:41 UTC, Neia Neutuladh wrote: I last used C++ professionally in 2015, and we were still rolling out C++11. std::string_view is part of C++17. You're calling me stupid for not having

Attributes on Enum Members: Call for use cases.

On Sunday, 19 November 2017 at 13:35:13 UTC, Michael V. Franklin wrote: What's the official word? Does it require a DIP? For those who might want to know, Walter has informed me that this change will require a DIP. I already have two DIPs in the queue right now, so I wouldn't mind if

Re: Looking for a job in USA

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 20:07:34 UTC, Joakim wrote: btw. I read somewhere that this forum software can't delete threads. That sounds pretty silly. Even sillier if it's true. It's not true, despite what Mike said earlier. I didn't say it's impossible to delete messages from the NNTP

Re: tour.dlang.org is less than useless

On 11/27/2017 06:08 PM, codephantom wrote: Why do we have this link? https://tour.dlang.org I cannot recall it ever working. (is it just something at my end?) What is it meant to take us to? I remember needing to refresh the page in the browser. I don't know what class of page

Re: tour.dlang.org is less than useless

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 02:11:32 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 02:08:24 UTC, codephantom wrote: Why do we have this link? https://tour.dlang.org I cannot recall it ever working. (is it just something at my end?) What is it meant to take us to? Works for me,

Re: tour.dlang.org is less than useless

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 02:08:24 UTC, codephantom wrote: Why do we have this link? https://tour.dlang.org I cannot recall it ever working. (is it just something at my end?) What is it meant to take us to? Works for me, though it hasn't always. What do you see, a blank page? I

Re: tour.dlang.org is less than useless

On 28/11/2017 2:08 AM, codephantom wrote: Why do we have this link? https://tour.dlang.org I cannot recall it ever working. (is it just something at my end?) Never had a problem with it. Definitely working right now.

tour.dlang.org is less than useless

Why do we have this link? https://tour.dlang.org I cannot recall it ever working. (is it just something at my end?) What is it meant to take us to?

Re: DIP 1006 - Preliminary Review Round 1

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 19:20:53 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: What would be the appropriate way to follow up on that idea? The last I saw DIP 1006 was undergoing formal review, but the end of that period seems to have passed with no further follow-up. Formal reviews have

Re: UDAs on Enum Members: Does it require a DIP?

On Tuesday, November 28, 2017 00:15:24 John via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 17:48:35 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu > > wrote: > > Hi Mike, this forum is not an appropriate place for requesting > > official answers. We don't scan the forums looking for matters > > that need

Re: On Attributes

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 20:07:08 UTC, A Guy With a Question wrote: On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 19:41:03 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 19:10:04 UTC, A Guy With a One thing that is bugging me is having to mark up all of my declarations with attributes. Meh,

Re: UDAs on Enum Members: Does it require a DIP?

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 17:48:35 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hi Mike, this forum is not an appropriate place for requesting official answers. We don't scan the forums looking for matters that need attention. Feel free to send email to Walter and myself, and that will get answered.

Re: Looking for a job in USA

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 23:10:22 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 11/27/2017 12:07 PM, Joakim wrote: It has been said that you shouldn't respond to such spam posts, but my guess is that's only to make it easier to remove the thread, by not having to hunt down all the replies or something.

Re: Thoughts about D

On 11/27/2017 7:16 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 11/26/17 9:56 PM, Walter Bright wrote: I have recently finished converting the Digital Mars C++ compiler front end from "C with classes" to D. I did a double-take on this. Are we to see an article about it soon? I suppose I should write

Re: Looking for a job in USA

On 11/27/2017 12:07 PM, Joakim wrote: It has been said that you shouldn't respond to such spam posts, but my guess is that's only to make it easier to remove the thread, by not having to hunt down all the replies or something. Responding to spam encourages it. It's what the spammer wants. The

Re: Floating point types default to NaN?

On Saturday, 25 November 2017 at 22:13:43 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: It technically did: https://dlang.org/spec/function.html#local-variables "It is an error to use a local variable without first assigning it a value. The implementation may not always be able to detect these cases. Other

Re: DIP 1006 - Preliminary Review Round 1

On 27/11/2017 7:20 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: On Sunday, 26 November 2017 at 12:09:37 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 26/11/2017 11:59 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: One suggestion: replace -release=assert with -release=body, so in the above, you would have:

"body" can be a symbol and "do" has another use

On 11/19/2017 04:54 AM, Basile B. wrote: > After testing some code with i've indeed observed that the transition > period for `do` had started... > > "since when ?" i've wondered. > > Good question, it's even not in the changelog: Same here! I learned about this in a D snippet in an article on

[Issue 18015] [Reg 2.075] link failure unknown [0] section `' in group [.group]

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18015 --- Comment #2 from Ludovit Lucenic --- I assume it won't be trivial but I'll do my best to provide one soon. --

Re: Precise GC state

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 20:13:35 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: I’ve seen a tech giant that works on uber high-performance things making heavy use of STL, and being fond of C++14 “high-level” features. Look, I am not against "high level" features, but shared_ptr is nothing like the

Re: Thoughts about D

On 27.11.2017 09:01, IM wrote: On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 05:11:06 UTC, Neia Neutuladh wrote: On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 00:14:40 UTC, IM wrote: - ‎It's quite clear that D was influenced a lot by Java at some point, which led to borrowing (copying?) a lot of Java features that may not

Re: Intellij D Language v1.15.2

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 10:57:18 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote: On my Archlinux there is no DSCanner error so maybe it something wrong with my fedora box at work. But I have many Possibly undefined symbol warnings and I do not know what it is. Do you have DScanner configured in both

Re: Precise GC state

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 18:29:56 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 17:16:50 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: Really, shared_ptr is the most contagious primitive of modern C++. Not really. Unique_ptr is, though. To quote MS STL guy “I’m surprised we had no

Re: Looking for a job in USA

On Friday, 24 November 2017 at 05:36:52 UTC, codephantom wrote: On Friday, 24 November 2017 at 04:33:52 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: These posts have nothing to do with D, so please stop posting them. This isn't a political forum. Also, perhaps you could delegate the policing of off topic

Re: On Attributes

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 19:41:03 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 19:10:04 UTC, A Guy With a One thing that is bugging me is having to mark up all of my declarations with attributes. Meh, you could also just ignore the attribute crap. Only reason I ever mess

Re: Problem building SWTSnippets with D 2.074.x

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 19:21:52 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2017-06-02 16:01, Jacob Carlborg wrote: This is due to a regression in the compiler [1]. Please use 2.073.x until this has been fixed. [1] https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17371 The issue has now been fixed.

Re: A note on troll engagement

On Monday, November 27, 2017 19:30:36 Mengu via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 17:44:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu > > wrote: > > All: we have had an increase in troll posts lately. Please > > avoid engaging them and resist the urge to correct assertions > > no matter how

Re: A note on troll engagement

On 11/27/17 2:30 PM, Mengu wrote: On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 17:44:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: All: we have had an increase in troll posts lately. Please avoid engaging them and resist the urge to correct assertions no matter how wrong, indignating, etc. The best response to troll

Re: On Attributes

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 19:10:04 UTC, A Guy With a One thing that is bugging me is having to mark up all of my declarations with attributes. Meh, you could also just ignore the attribute crap. Only reason I ever mess with them is if someone who is using them tries to use my code...

Re: A note on troll engagement

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 17:44:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: All: we have had an increase in troll posts lately. Please avoid engaging them and resist the urge to correct assertions no matter how wrong, indignating, etc. The best response to troll posts is spending the time that

Re: On Attributes

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 07:10:04PM +, A Guy With a Question via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > Hi again! > > I've been trying to do my best to write idiomatically. One thing that > is bugging me is having to mark up all of my declarations with > attributes. Which means I'm having to remember

Re: DIP 1006 - Preliminary Review Round 1

On Sunday, 26 November 2017 at 12:09:37 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 26/11/2017 11:59 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: One suggestion: replace -release=assert with -release=body, so in the above, you would have:     -release=body,in,out,invariant ... which has the nice intuitive

Re: Problem building SWTSnippets with D 2.074.x

On 2017-06-02 16:01, Jacob Carlborg wrote: This is due to a regression in the compiler [1]. Please use 2.073.x until this has been fixed. [1] https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17371 The issue has now been fixed. We'll see in which release of the compiler it will show up. --

Re: On Attributes

On 11/27/17 2:10 PM, A Guy With a Question wrote: Hi again! I've been trying to do my best to write idiomatically. One thing that is bugging me is having to mark up all of my declarations with attributes. Which means I'm having to remember them all. It's a bit much to keep in my head with

On Attributes

Hi again! I've been trying to do my best to write idiomatically. One thing that is bugging me is having to mark up all of my declarations with attributes. Which means I'm having to remember them all. It's a bit much to keep in my head with every function. Is there a good way to reverse this

Re: Tried C++ to D. Wrong result.

On 11/27/2017 10:47 AM, Dmitry wrote: > On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 18:40:41 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: > >> So, it looks like the original code was accessing out of bounds and >> probably that's why you inserted the ((index + 3) < N) check in the D >> version because D was catching that error at

Re: Tried C++ to D. Wrong result.

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 18:40:41 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: So, it looks like the original code was accessing out of bounds and probably that's why you inserted the ((index + 3) < N) check in the D version because D was catching that error at runtime. Yes, it is. Which of course would

Re: A note on troll engagement

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 17:44:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: All: we have had an increase in troll posts lately. Please avoid engaging them and resist the urge to correct assertions no matter how wrong, indignating, etc. The best response to troll posts is spending the time that

Re: Tried C++ to D. Wrong result.

On 11/27/2017 10:25 AM, Dmitry wrote: > On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 17:21:05 UTC, Dmitry wrote: >> It fixed a delay (you can see it on video I posted before), but result >> is same. > > It seems I found the problem. > > C++ version (line 93): > if (image[index + 3] != 0) > > I changed to > if

Re: Precise GC state

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 18:00:59 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: I don't understand this. I would expect most modern C++ programs to be using shared_ptr as the default for most pointers and thus use it heavily. You get this: shared_ptr -> control_block -> object Instead of this:

Re: Precise GC state

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 17:16:50 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: Really, shared_ptr is the most contagious primitive of modern C++. Not really. Unique_ptr is, though. To quote MS STL guy “I’m surprised we had no non-inteusive ref-counted ptr in std lib for so long”. Going Native videos

Re: Tried C++ to D. Wrong result.

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 17:21:05 UTC, Dmitry wrote: It fixed a delay (you can see it on video I posted before), but result is same. It seems I found the problem. C++ version (line 93): if (image[index + 3] != 0) I changed to if (image[index] != 0) and it works. I don't understand

Re: Precise GC state

On Monday, November 27, 2017 15:56:09 Ola Fosheim Grostad via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 14:35:03 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky > > wrote: > > Then watch Herb’s Sutter recent talk “Leak freedom by default”. > > Now THAT guy must be out of his mind :) > > He could be, I havent

Re: UDAs on Enum Members: Does it require a DIP?

On 11/27/2017 05:43 AM, Michael V. Franklin wrote: On Sunday, 19 November 2017 at 13:35:13 UTC, Michael V. Franklin wrote: Apparently user-defined attributes are not permitted on enum members. Issue is documented here: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9701 Pull request implementing the

A note on troll engagement

All: we have had an increase in troll posts lately. Please avoid engaging them and resist the urge to correct assertions no matter how wrong, indignating, etc. The best response to troll posts is spending the time that would elsewhere go in flamewars, on good work. Feel free to use your

Re: Silicon Valley D Meetup - November 30, 2017 - "DCompute: Harnessing all your hardware" by Nicholas Wilson

Reminder... On 11/17/2017 04:04 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote: We're very fortunate to have Nic as our speaker this month. He will be connecting remotely. We will announce the Google Hangouts link later so that you can join as well. "DCompute is a set of libraries designed to work with ldc to enable

Re: Thoughts about D

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 16:44:41 UTC, Neia Neutuladh wrote: I last used C++ professionally in 2015, and we were still rolling out C++11. std::string_view is part of C++17. You're calling me stupid for not having already known about it. (Yes, yes, you were sufficiently indirect to have a

Re: How you guys go about -BetterC Multithreading?

On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 11:55:57 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: For now we do have some @nogc alternatives for mutex, condition variables, thread-pool, file reading, etc... (dplug:core package) for use with the runtime disabled - the middle ground that's way more usable than -betterC.

Re: Tried C++ to D. Wrong result.

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 17:01:29 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: In the C++ version they are declared std::vector pending; std::vector pendingNext; Ah, indeed. I thought that pending.reserve(N); pendingNext.reserve(N); initializes them (last time I used C++ about 17 years ago...) I

Re: Precise GC state

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 15:56:09 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grostad wrote: On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 14:35:03 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: Then watch Herb’s Sutter recent talk “Leak freedom by default”. Now THAT guy must be out of his mind :) He could be, I havent seen it... Shared_ptr isnt

Re: Tried C++ to D. Wrong result.

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 14:35:39 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: First I'd make sure that what you get out of dlib load is the same as the c++ version gets. Just use standard debugging techniques. Yes, it's same. As you can see, the top-middle area of the result is same. I wrote a video of

Re: Floating point types default to NaN?

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 14:58:42 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I rely on the default value initialization all the time! I don't know how that would jive with structs, since they are technically local variables, but usually are valid without initialization. Yes, indeed, me too. I

Re: Floating point types default to NaN?

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 16:04:14 UTC, Dukc wrote: Debatable in this case. Consider: string servicePhoneNumber; final switch (car.manufacturer) //an enumerated value. Well, the compiler can see it is initialized before being read again later, so that *should* pass the check (at least

Re: Tried C++ to D. Wrong result.

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 14:08:27 UTC, Dmitry wrote: https://pastebin.com/GzZQ7WHt The first thing that jumped out to me is this: size_t[] pending = new size_t[N]; size_t[] pendingNext = new size_t[N]; That's giving it N elements of zero, then you append to it later with

[Issue 17371] [REG 2.074.0] di generation broken for anonymous classes

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17371 github-bugzi...@puremagic.com changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |RESOLVED

[Issue 17371] [REG 2.074.0] di generation broken for anonymous classes

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17371 --- Comment #3 from github-bugzi...@puremagic.com --- Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/dlang/dmd https://github.com/dlang/dmd/commit/a16826730fb7987d2012144cf7eaf46c53ae3735 Fix Issue 17371 - [REG 2.074.0] di generation broken for

Re: Thoughts about D

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 06:12:53 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grostad wrote: On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 05:11:06 UTC, Neia Neutuladh std::string does the same thing. So if I reimplemented subtex naively in C++, its performance would be closer to the C# version than to the D version. You meant

Re: Website down: code.dlang.org

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 15:34:22 UTC, Seb wrote: On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 10:20:17 UTC, Chris wrote: There seems to be a problem with http://code.dlang.org/ at the moment (27.11.) FYI there are a couple of mirrors now: https://code-mirror.dlang.io https://code-mirror2.dlang.io

Re: Precise GC state

Btw, it would improve the discourse if people tried to distinguish between language constructs and library constructs...

Re: Floating point types default to NaN?

On Saturday, 25 November 2017 at 09:39:15 UTC, Dave Jones wrote: I mean at the end of the day, that would turn a run time error into a compile time error which is a good thing isnt it? Debatable in this case. Consider: string servicePhoneNumber; final switch (car.manufacturer) //an

Re: Precise GC state

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 14:35:03 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: Then watch Herb’s Sutter recent talk “Leak freedom by default”. Now THAT guy must be out of his mind :) He could be, I havent seen it... Shared_ptr isnt frequently used, it is a last resort, atomic_shared_pointer is

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