Re: Programming in D On Goodreads

2015-07-18 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 18 July 2015 at 13:34:55 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: Thank you for doing that. On a related note, the paper version of the book is in proofing stage: I have just ordered a print copy for proofing. (I don't expect any major problem as what they print is the same as the pdf copy.) It

Re: Mitigating the attribute proliferation - attribute inference for functions

2015-07-17 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 17 July 2015 at 18:11:46 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Because I want to overhaul smart pointers/refs (Unique, RC). A seemingly trivial task, should take a few hours, but I already spent days to hack around all the attribute issues. I think the axiom make it hard for engineers so it's

Programming in D On Goodreads

2015-07-17 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25928594-programming-in-d I just added Ali Çehreli's Programming in D on Goodreads. If any of you have accounts, please rate the book, because people do use Goodreads to find books as well as determine if a book is worth their time. Also, Andrei's book is

Creator of LLVM, Clang, and Swift Says To Not Write Security Critical Code In C/C++

2015-07-13 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.llvm.devel/87749 Safety is one of the more important things that D offers over C++, even though people keep saying C++11/14 makes D unimportant.

Re: Last - but not least! - two DConf talks

2015-07-13 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 10 July 2015 at 18:33:04 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Spread the word! https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3d66zk/why_i_love_d_an_undergrad_shares_his_experience/

Re: Firs step of D/Objective-C merged

2015-07-12 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 12 July 2015 at 10:07:36 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2015-07-11 23:18, Jack Stouffer wrote: Is there any documentation available yet? No, no official documentation. You can have a look at the DIP [1], but that contains a lot more than what's currently implemented. I recommend

Re: Firs step of D/Objective-C merged

2015-07-11 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 11 July 2015 at 20:25:47 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: The only thing that's supported for now is calling Objective-C instance methods from D Is there any documentation available yet?

LDC for iOS prebuilt binaries

2015-07-10 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 9 July 2015 at 06:32:28 UTC, Dan Olson wrote: Only 32-bit devices currently; arm64 work starts next month when I acquire an iPhone 6. The download should have everything needed to run on an OS X build host in the same fashion as LDC downloads. Great work. D will get a huge

Re: Voting for std.experimental.allocator

2015-07-08 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 8 July 2015 at 11:33:03 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Please respond to this post with a comment starting with a single Yes/No Yes

Re: Ali's book down

2015-07-02 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 2 July 2015 at 08:55:06 UTC, Chris wrote: http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html In case Ali reads this, the site also has a really aggressive robots.txt file that will not allow the site to be archived on archive.org, and is also probably lowering your page ranking on Google

Why aren't Ranges Interfaces?

2015-06-26 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-learn
I have been learning D over the past three weeks and I came to the chapter in Programming in D on Ranges. And I am a little confused on the choice to make Ranges based on the methods you have in the struct, but not use a interface. With all of the isInputRange!R you have to write everywhere,

Re: Why aren't Ranges Interfaces?

2015-06-26 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-learn
Thanks for the reply! I understand the reasoning now. On Friday, 26 June 2015 at 18:46:03 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: 2) interfaces have an associated runtime cost, which ranges wanted to avoid. They come with hidden function pointers and if you actually use it through them, you can get a

Re: Why aren't Ranges Interfaces?

2015-06-26 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 26 June 2015 at 19:40:41 UTC, rsw0x wrote: On Friday, 26 June 2015 at 19:26:57 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: Thanks for the reply! I understand the reasoning now. On Friday, 26 June 2015 at 18:46:03 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: 2) interfaces have an associated runtime cost, which ranges

Re: Daily downloads in decline

2015-06-09 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 20:54:00 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote: Sorry if I appear a bit grumpy, but even though recently a number of people have been clamoring for more focus on high-impact, strategically important work, not a single one of them has showed up at the doorsteps of GDC/LDC with

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