Re: This is why I don't use D.

2018-09-05 Thread lurker via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 at 06:47:00 UTC, Everlast wrote: On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 at 01:39:04 UTC, Paul Backus wrote: [...] I'm not going to sit here and spend have my time fixing shit that should have never broke in the first place. Thanks, you've made a great decision for me

Re: D is dead (was: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.)

2018-09-02 Thread lurker via Digitalmars-d
after the beta i tried it the final again - just to be fair. 1.) install d, install visual d. 2.) trying to to look at options under visual d without a project crashes VS2017 - latest service pack. 3.) VS2017 - displays a problem on startup 4.) creating the dummy project - compile for x64.

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-08-26 Thread lurker via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 26 August 2018 at 19:28:30 UTC, Radu wrote: On Sunday, 26 August 2018 at 16:09:35 UTC, lurker wrote: [...] Yeah right... I'm sure this is what everyone experienced. This thread has become the trollers trolling playground. no, i used to use d1 a lot and then d2 changed everything

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-08-26 Thread lurker via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 26 August 2018 at 16:25:31 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 27/08/2018 4:09 AM, lurker wrote: On Sunday, 26 August 2018 at 14:17:33 UTC, Chris wrote: On Sunday, 26 August 2018 at 14:00:56 UTC, nkm1 wrote: So please report any issues you're having. Because they are not regular user

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-08-26 Thread lurker via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 26 August 2018 at 14:17:33 UTC, Chris wrote: On Sunday, 26 August 2018 at 14:00:56 UTC, nkm1 wrote: [...] What did I expect? Better: What do I expect now. I've been using D for years now. I think it's time for D to offer users the same stability as other languages do. Simple as.

Re: D beyond the specs

2018-03-16 Thread lurker via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 11:44:59 UTC, Chris wrote: [...] easy code readability, few keywords, well defined and predictable (ex. ebnf) well D is all - but that. i can't get anyone in our company to use it even for little stuff.

Re: proposed @noreturn attribute

2017-07-14 Thread Lurker via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 14 July 2017 at 15:39:01 UTC, Guillaume Boucher wrote: Example 1: Polymorphism class Bird { void fly() { ... } }; class Penguin : Bird { override void fly() @pragma(noreturn) { assert(0); } }; class EvolvedPenguin : Penguin { override void fly() { ... } }; No matter how you look

Re: proposed @noreturn attribute

2017-07-13 Thread Lurker via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 8 July 2017 at 20:27:11 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Also, a @noreturn attribute would allow overriding a non-void class method with a @noreturn one (e.g. the derived class is a sentinel object that forces an exception / termination upon calling that method), whereas you can't do that wi

Re: Proposal 2: Exceptions and @nogc

2017-04-10 Thread Lurker via Digitalmars-d
Everything looks good except this one line: On Sunday, 9 April 2017 at 03:26:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: throw new E(string); I don't like it for 2 reasons: a) E e = new E(string); throw e; Should be *exactly* the same as throw new E(string). I think it's obvious why. b) U

Re: CTFE Status 2

2017-02-17 Thread Lurker via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 16 February 2017 at 21:05:51 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: Hi Guys, due to the old CTFE status thread getting to page 30, I am now starting a new one. ... -- I hope this thread is informative and will continue to be that way. Cheers, Stefan (aka UplinkCoder) Thanks Stefan for your w

Re: syntax sugar: std.path::buildPath instead of from!"std.path".buildPath

2017-02-14 Thread Lurker via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 14 February 2017 at 16:25:17 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Range remove (SwapStrategy s = SwapStrategy.stable, Range, Offset...) (Range range, Offset offset) if (s != SwapStrategy.stable && isBidirectionalRange!Range && hasLvalueElements!Range && hasLength!Range && O

Re: A betterC modular standard library?

2016-12-19 Thread lurker via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 December 2016 at 05:59:07 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: On Monday, 19 December 2016 at 01:52:21 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 12/18/16 7:31 PM, Seb wrote: tl:dr: Phobos is very bloated. How does the D standard library compare in size with some other languages (C++, Rust, Go,

Re: Checkedint ready for one more round of reviews

2016-10-19 Thread Lurker via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 19 October 2016 at 17:09:35 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Just made one more pass through it addressing concerns and adding a new policy (Throw). Reviews welcome. Let's get this through Scylla and Charybdis! This module provides a few predefined hooks (below) that add useful b

Re: So what's the deal with DFLAGS?

2016-10-13 Thread Lurker via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 14 October 2016 at 00:47:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Should we do something about https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1660? -- Andrei Srsly, the bug is over 8 years old, any only one person complained. It's not even a bug but a feature request. Close it as won't fix an

Re: Can you shrink it further?

2016-10-10 Thread Lurker via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 11 October 2016 at 03:00:45 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: On Tuesday, 11 October 2016 at 02:48:22 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: That looks good. I'm just worried about the jump forward - ideally the case c < 127 would simply entail a quick return. I tried a fix, but it didn't do what I

Re: iPhone vs Android

2016-09-13 Thread Lurker via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 13 September 2016 at 22:19:54 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: So, I really think that we need to find a way to make it so that exceptions aren't GC allocated normally anymore - or at least have a way to reasonably and easily not be GC allocated - but the problem is @nogc, not the actua

Re: Image of D code on Norwegian IT news site

2016-09-01 Thread Lurker via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 1 September 2016 at 18:45:14 UTC, deadalnix wrote: On Wednesday, 31 August 2016 at 18:50:58 UTC, simendsjo wrote: An article about how outsourcing reduces the need for Norwegian developers. No links to D other than the image on top though. I wonder what they searched for to find th

Re: dub test

2016-08-31 Thread Lurker via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 24 August 2016 at 13:52:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: // This will always be true assert(a >= 1 && a <= 5); assert(a >= 0.0 && a <= 10.0); Pretty sure you have a bug here :)

Re: Entity Component Architecture

2016-08-26 Thread Lurker via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 26 August 2016 at 19:55:30 UTC, vladdeSV wrote: What I can conclude so far is my approach uses a lot of processing power. I did a test where I generated 1 entities and it drained my CPU to 50%. All feedback is appreciated. Thank you for your input :) hasComponent()/getComponen

Re: User defined statements for D like seed have?

2015-06-05 Thread lurker via Digitalmars-d
http://seed7.sourceforge.net/index.htm seed7 is also a compiler! and i use it, after comming from D, with great pleasure. On Wednesday, 7 March 2007 at 22:02:00 UTC, dennis luehring wrote: example how a for statement is declared http://seed7.sourceforge.net/examples/declstat.htm ok i kno

Re: Escaping the Tyranny of the GC: std.rcstring, first blood

2014-09-21 Thread Googler Lurker via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 21 September 2014 at 23:28:31 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: Am 22.09.2014 01:06, schrieb Ola Fosheim Grostad: On Sunday, 21 September 2014 at 22:58:59 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: Since when Go is a competitor in the webspace? Since people who create high throughput servers started using it?