Why don't we write configuration files in D instead of JSON?

It would seem that by running the file through mixin, you can simply create the vars you want in scope. The drawback being random code execution. Is there any way to sanitize mixin code from user-configurable file? Once that's shot down, does anyone know a .json to .sdl converter program

Re: Button: A fast, correct, and elegantly simple build system.

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 12:02:56 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: In all likelihood. One issue with build systems is there's no clear heir to make. There are so many, including a couple (!) by our community, each with its pros and cons. Which one should we choose? You should choose

Re: Button: A fast, correct, and elegantly simple build system.

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 12:00:52 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I'd say the gating factor is -j. If an build system doesn't implement the equivalent of make -j, that's a showstopper. Don't worry, there is a --threads option and it defaults to the number of logical cores. I just did

Re: Passing anonymous templated functions as template parameters

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 23:52:56 UTC, Basile B. wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 22:27:38 UTC, pineapple wrote: Here's a simple code example to illustrate what I expected to work and didn't - is this a mistake in my syntax or a limitation of the language? template

Re: std.experimental.checkedint is ready for comments!

On Thursday, 16 June 2016 at 02:53:38 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 6/15/16 9:34 PM, tsbockman wrote: Why didn't you make your design requirements known at any earlier point in this process? If you are ultimate gate keeper for Phobos (as you seem to be), you ought to make your

Re: std.experimental.checkedint is ready for comments!

On 6/15/16 9:34 PM, tsbockman wrote: `checkedint` (and @burner's `SafeInt` before it) have been under development in the open for over a year now. There have been several discussions in the forums, with feedback being actively solicited. Significant design changes were made to address various

Re: Passing anonymous templated functions as template parameters

On 6/15/16 7:52 PM, Basile B. wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 22:27:38 UTC, pineapple wrote: Here's a simple code example to illustrate what I expected to work and didn't - is this a mistake in my syntax or a limitation of the language? template SomeTemplate(alias func){ auto

Re: Anybody still using the chm docs

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 10:58:04 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: So I'm wondering if in 2016 someone really needs an offline copy of a website shipped with a binary release? For offline browsing, Windows and Linux users can use Zeal [1] which is FOSS, and macOS users can use Dash[2], which is

Out of order execution

Suppose I have a loop where I execute two functions: for(...) { if (x) Do1(x); if (y) Do2(y); } The problem is, I really always want to execute all the Do2's first then the Do1's. As is, we could get any order of calls. Suppose I can't run the loop twice for performance reasons(there

[Issue 16166] struct constructor and AliasSeq

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16166 --- Comment #2 from Danila Letunovskiy --- struct Window { string title; int x, y; int w, h; alias title this; } void main(){ Window w = "Foo"; } --

Re: std.experimental.checkedint is ready for comments!

On Thursday, 16 June 2016 at 00:33:38 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 06/15/2016 08:07 PM, tsbockman wrote: But, I would appreciate it if comments distinguished between: 1) My goals and philosophy differ from yours, versus 2) My implementation is bad. I think a lot of the high-level

Re: std.experimental.checkedint is ready for comments!

On Thursday, 16 June 2016 at 00:31:38 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 06/15/2016 02:50 PM, tsbockman wrote: What you are proposing is *not* "fixing" my design - it is basically scrapping it and replacing it with a ground-up rewrite, with perhaps some bits and pieces and general inspiration

Re: GTKD - Application crashes - or not? [Coedit]

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 23:41:51 UTC, Basile B. wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 17:35:32 UTC, TheDGuy wrote: I'm gonna check on Windows today but in the meantime you can try I've checked on windows and here is what I can say about the problem. - Symbolic strings won't work on

Re: std.experimental.checkedint is ready for comments!

On 06/15/2016 08:07 PM, tsbockman wrote: On Thursday, 16 June 2016 at 00:03:26 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 06/15/2016 07:34 PM, tsbockman wrote: The whole point of `checkedint` is to be able to write algorithms based on the simplifying assumption that your variables behave like real,

Re: std.experimental.checkedint is ready for comments!

On 06/15/2016 02:50 PM, tsbockman wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 16:40:19 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I think there are a few considerable issues with the proposal, but also that all are fixable. I already sent a much longer message detailing some of the reasons why I believe my

Re: std.experimental.checkedint is ready for comments!

On Thursday, 16 June 2016 at 00:06:13 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 06/15/2016 07:13 PM, tsbockman wrote: Standardizing the error handling methods is also important for other interoperability-related reasons: [...] I don't agree with this. On the face of it, three built-in policies

Re: std.experimental.checkedint is ready for comments!

On Thursday, 16 June 2016 at 00:03:26 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 06/15/2016 07:34 PM, tsbockman wrote: The whole point of `checkedint` is to be able to write algorithms based on the simplifying assumption that your variables behave like real, UNbounded mathematical integers, secure in

Re: std.experimental.checkedint is ready for comments!

On 06/15/2016 07:13 PM, tsbockman wrote: Standardizing the error handling methods is also important for other interoperability-related reasons: * If every third-party library designs a different error handling method, people writing applications that depend on many libraries will

Re: std.experimental.checkedint is ready for comments!

On 06/15/2016 07:34 PM, tsbockman wrote: The whole point of `checkedint` is to be able to write algorithms based on the simplifying assumption that your variables behave like real, UNbounded mathematical integers, secure in the knowledge that an error message will be generated if that assumption

Re: Passing anonymous templated functions as template parameters

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 22:27:38 UTC, pineapple wrote: Here's a simple code example to illustrate what I expected to work and didn't - is this a mistake in my syntax or a limitation of the language? template SomeTemplate(alias func){ auto templatefunc(T)(int x){

Re: GTKD - Application crashes - or not? [Coedit]

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 17:35:32 UTC, TheDGuy wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 13:15:56 UTC, Rene Zwanenburg wrote: I'm not familiar with Coedit, but the run options seem to contain a field for setting it: https://github.com/BBasile/Coedit/wiki#run-options You may be able to use the

Re: std.experimental.checkedint is ready for comments!

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 16:40:19 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: One of the first things I looked for was establishing bounds for numbers, like Smart!(int, 0, 100) for percentage. For all its might, this package does not offer this basic facility, and from what I can tell does not allow

Re: std.experimental.checkedint is ready for comments!

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 18:34:15 UTC, tsbockman wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 16:40:19 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Getting to the design: the root of the problem is a byzantine design that is closed to extension. The design was closed deliberately because of (8). Template

Re: GTKD - overrideBackgroundColor of Button doesn't work

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 21:39:37 UTC, TheDGuy wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 20:49:02 UTC, Gerald wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 09:03:45 UTC, TheDGuy wrote: Hello, why does this code not work? RGBA rgb = new RGBA(1,0.5,0.5,1.0); Button btn_1 = new

Passing anonymous templated functions as template parameters

Here's a simple code example to illustrate what I expected to work and didn't - is this a mistake in my syntax or a limitation of the language? template SomeTemplate(alias func){ auto templatefunc(T)(int x){ return func!T(x); } } // Valid auto

Re: get number of columns and rows in an ndarray.

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 21:54:22 UTC, Seb wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 21:51:25 UTC, learner wrote: Hi, How can i get the number of cols and rows in and ndarray that has already been created? learner how about `shape`?

Re: GTKD - overrideBackgroundColor of Button doesn't work

string cssPath = "test.css"; CssProvider provider = new CssProvider(); provider.loadFromPath(cssPath); unfortunately i don't know anything about yr specific problem. but i just wanted to mention (in case you are not aware of it) that the CSS can be embedded into

Re: Work in Amsterdam

On 06/15/2016 04:44 PM, Jack Stouffer wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 19:48:07 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote: LinkedIn has the D Developer Network (DDN) group with 1900 members (at the moment of writing this post): https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3923820 I didn't know about this either. You

Re: The Problem With DIPs

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 20:50:25 UTC, deadalnix wrote: Consider that there are many optimizations that rely on fp not being predictable. For instance, fabs(x) can be transformed into x | 0x8000 if you don't care about NaN's sign (yes, NaN are signed). I guess that would be

Re: get number of columns and rows in an ndarray.

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 21:51:25 UTC, learner wrote: Hi, How can i get the number of cols and rows in and ndarray that has already been created? learner how about `shape`? http://dlang.org/phobos/std_experimental_ndslice_slice.html#.Slice.shape

get number of columns and rows in an ndarray.

Hi, How can i get the number of cols and rows in and ndarray that has already been created? learner

Re: Garbage Collector

On 16/06/2016 6:53 AM, Konstantin wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 17:02:11 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Higher level languages like Java have the benefit of using pools and optimizing for this usage pattern, D does and will never have this. Why don't you want the same for D? Because we

Re: std.experimental.checkedint is ready for comments!

On 06/15/2016 05:32 PM, Timon Gehr wrote: On 15.06.2016 18:40, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: The only remaining matter is to implement a few preexisting policies (Hook implementations) to implement typical choices (such as the ones present today), and the core algorithms for doing bounded

Re: GTKD - overrideBackgroundColor of Button doesn't work

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 20:49:02 UTC, Gerald wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 09:03:45 UTC, TheDGuy wrote: Hello, why does this code not work? RGBA rgb = new RGBA(1,0.5,0.5,1.0); Button btn_1 = new Button("Start");

Re: std.experimental.checkedint is ready for comments!

On 15.06.2016 18:40, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: The only remaining matter is to implement a few preexisting policies (Hook implementations) to implement typical choices (such as the ones present today), and the core algorithms for doing bounded operations. The most interesting algorithms are

Re: Accessing COM Objects

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 19:21:51 UTC, John wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 18:32:28 UTC, Joerg Joergonson wrote: import core.sys.windows.com, core.sys.windows.oaidl; Thanks. Should these not be added to the generated file? The problem is that other type libraries will probably

Re: Debugging D in windows

Thanks for the info! I will try it tomorrow, when I have some time and give some feedback then.

Re: The Problem With DIPs

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 08:24:23 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Monday, 13 June 2016 at 20:15:09 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/13/2016 3:33 AM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: But would it really have an effect if I wrote a DIP on getting predictable floating point behaviour? If there is

Re: GTKD - overrideBackgroundColor of Button doesn't work

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 09:03:45 UTC, TheDGuy wrote: Hello, why does this code not work? RGBA rgb = new RGBA(1,0.5,0.5,1.0); Button btn_1 = new Button("Start"); btn_1.overrideBackgroundColor(StateFlags.NORMAL, rgb); The color of btn_1 just doesn't change.

Re: Garbage Collector

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 20:22:21 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 19:39:59 UTC, Konstantin wrote: Well I’m not sure about the 5% (MS says their write barrier overhead is comparable to the cost of a simple method call, namely 6.4ns:

Re: Work in Amsterdam

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 19:48:07 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote: LinkedIn has the D Developer Network (DDN) group with 1900 members (at the moment of writing this post): https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3923820 I didn't know about this either. You should make a separate announce post about

Re: Areas of D usage

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 20:01:09 UTC, Seb wrote: Thanks a lot for all your help! The initial version is online now & please feel invited to improve upon this document: http://dlang.org/areas-of-d-usage.html Looks good to me!

Re: Work in Amsterdam

On 06/15/2016 12:48 PM, Dejan Lekic wrote: On Monday, 13 June 2016 at 22:45:15 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: Forgive me if this is not the best place for this sort of posts, but we are looking for experienced developers willing to learn D to join our development team in Amsterdam. We are a

Re: arr.ptr, @safe and void*

On 6/15/16 4:08 PM, Nick Treleaven wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 17:35:49 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 6/15/16 6:32 AM, Nick Treleaven wrote: My question is: would returning void* instead really be unsafe, i.e. is there a way of dereferencing it in safe code? (I'm not thinking

Re: Garbage Collector

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 19:39:59 UTC, Konstantin wrote: Well I’m not sure about the 5% (MS says their write barrier overhead is comparable to the cost of a simple method call, namely 6.4ns: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973852.aspx), but yeah, there’s some tradeoff, for

Re: Articles/Doc repo on Official dlang github

On 6/15/16 3:34 PM, dewitt wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 18:20:19 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 6/15/16 1:51 PM, dewitt wrote: I don't know if this has been asked before and I am too lazy to search. Has anyone brought up the idea of adding a repo to the official dlang project on

Re: Articles/Doc repo on Official dlang github

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 19:34:13 UTC, dewitt wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 18:20:19 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 6/15/16 1:51 PM, dewitt wrote: I don't know if this has been asked before and I am too lazy to search. Has anyone brought up the idea of adding a repo to the

Re: arr.ptr, @safe and void*

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 17:35:49 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 6/15/16 6:32 AM, Nick Treleaven wrote: My question is: would returning void* instead really be unsafe, i.e. is there a way of dereferencing it in safe code? (I'm not thinking about holes in @safe, but ways by

Re: Garbage Collector

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 18:48:28 UTC, jmh530 wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 18:28:42 UTC, Edwin van Leeuwen wrote: I think he meant that the .NET GC (and most GC designs) rely on write barriers, but D does not have write barriers, since D is meant to be a proper systems language.

Re: Areas of D usage

On Thursday, 2 June 2016 at 23:57:55 UTC, jmh530 wrote: On Thursday, 2 June 2016 at 21:47:13 UTC, qznc wrote: On Thursday, 2 June 2016 at 13:59:13 UTC, Seb wrote: If I left out an area or you miss an application/usage - please let me know! The Javascript JIT Compiler Higgs:

Re: Garbage Collector

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 19:39:59 UTC, Konstantin wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 18:23:52 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: They're not acceptable for a systems programming language as they require you to pay for something that you might not use. According to our resident GC maintainer

Re: Parsing D Maybe Not Such a Good Idea <_<;

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 19:20:51 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: Scanner can easily be non-regular. Especially in that case, when the irregularity is as trivial as incrementing/decrementing a counter.

Re: Work in Amsterdam

On Monday, 13 June 2016 at 22:45:15 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: Forgive me if this is not the best place for this sort of posts, but we are looking for experienced developers willing to learn D to join our development team in Amsterdam. We are a fast-growing travel e-commerce startup focused on

Re: Garbage Collector

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 18:23:52 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: They're not acceptable for a systems programming language as they require you to pay for something that you might not use. According to our resident GC maintainer (among many other things), they would cause a 1%-5% slow down in

Re: Articles/Doc repo on Official dlang github

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 18:20:19 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 6/15/16 1:51 PM, dewitt wrote: I don't know if this has been asked before and I am too lazy to search. Has anyone brought up the idea of adding a repo to the official dlang project on github with Articles. I know the

Re: Accessing COM Objects

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 18:35:42 UTC, Joerg Joergonson wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 06:09:33 UTC, thedeemon wrote: On Monday, 13 June 2016 at 17:38:41 UTC, Incognito wrote: [...] There are ready tools idl2d: https://github.com/dlang/visuald/tree/master/c2d [...] I can't

Re: Accessing COM Objects

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 18:32:28 UTC, Joerg Joergonson wrote: import core.sys.windows.com, core.sys.windows.oaidl; Thanks. Should these not be added to the generated file? The problem is that other type libraries will probably require other headers to be imported, and there's no way

Re: Parsing D Maybe Not Such a Good Idea <_<;

On 15-Jun-2016 12:37, Shachar Shemesh wrote: On 15/06/16 08:27, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote: IMHO, you're thinking about this at the wrong level of abstraction. I tend to agree. The first order of business, before you even think about parsing, should be to tokenize (or lex) the

Re: Garbage Collector

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 18:48:28 UTC, jmh530 wrote: My reading of that LuaJIT GC document is that it requires write barriers, but that they are very cheap. ...for language that was originally VM-based. yet they'll have a noticable impact on language like D -- especially when programmer

Re: std.experimental.checkedint is ready for comments!

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 18:50:32 UTC, tsbockman wrote: What you are proposing is *not* "fixing" my design - it is basically scrapping it and replacing it with a ground-up rewrite, with perhaps some bits and pieces and general inspiration taken from my work. [...] If the decision is made

Re: std.experimental.checkedint is ready for comments!

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 16:40:19 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I think there are a few considerable issues with the proposal, but also that all are fixable. I already sent a much longer message detailing some of the reasons why I believe my design is sensible. But, before we continue

Re: Garbage Collector

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 17:02:11 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Higher level languages like Java have the benefit of using pools and optimizing for this usage pattern, D does and will never have this. Why don't you want the same for D? Well if you really insist to have a String class

Re: Garbage Collector

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 18:28:42 UTC, Edwin van Leeuwen wrote: I think he meant that the .NET GC (and most GC designs) rely on write barriers, but D does not have write barriers, since D is meant to be a proper systems language. My reading of that LuaJIT GC document is that it

Re: std.experimental.checkedint is ready for comments!

On 06/15/2016 02:26 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/15/2016 9:40 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Looking at the IntFlagPolicy, it offers three canned behavior: throws, asserts, and noex. Users cannot customize behavior and there is no information passed into the policy (e.g. the operands in case

Re: ndslice: convert a sliced object to T[]

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 14:14:23 UTC, Seb wrote: ``` T[] a = slice.ptr[0.. slice.elementsCount]; ``` This would work only for slices with continuous memory representation and positive strides. -- Ilya

Re: Button: A fast, correct, and elegantly simple build system.

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 15:39:47 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 06/15/2016 08:05 AM, John Colvin wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 11:47:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/15/2016 4:07 AM, Edwin van Leeuwen wrote: How about using reggae?

Re: Accessing COM Objects

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 06:09:33 UTC, thedeemon wrote: On Monday, 13 June 2016 at 17:38:41 UTC, Incognito wrote: [...] There are ready tools idl2d: https://github.com/dlang/visuald/tree/master/c2d [...] I can't seem to get ComPtr to work. auto ps =

Re: Accessing COM Objects

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 17:20:31 UTC, John wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 16:45:39 UTC, Joerg Joergonson wrote: Thanks. When I ran it I got a d file! when I tried to use that d file I get undefined IID and IDispatch. I imagine these interfaces come from somewhere, probably built

Re: std.experimental.checkedint is ready for comments!

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 16:40:19 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Thanks for this work. [...] I think there are a few considerable issues with the proposal, but also that all are fixable. Your message was very long, so for the moment I'm going to filter it down to just the high-level

Re: std.experimental.checkedint is ready for comments!

On 6/15/2016 9:40 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Looking at the IntFlagPolicy, it offers three canned behavior: throws, asserts, and noex. Users cannot customize behavior and there is no information passed into the policy (e.g. the operands in case of overflow, or the numerator in case of

Re: Garbage Collector

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 17:03:21 UTC, Konstantin wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 13:56:09 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: Has anyone thought about taking GC from .NET and reusing it in D? Two words: write barriers. What about them? You mean not all D’s target platforms support them? I

Re: Garbage Collector

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 17:03:21 UTC, Konstantin wrote: Two words: write barriers. What about them? You mean not all D’s target platforms support them? They're not acceptable for a systems programming language as they require you to pay for something that you might not use.

Re: Articles/Doc repo on Official dlang github

On 6/15/16 1:51 PM, dewitt wrote: I don't know if this has been asked before and I am too lazy to search. Has anyone brought up the idea of adding a repo to the official dlang project on github with Articles. I know the website has a section but think that a repo with md files might get more

Re: size_t vs uintptr_t

On 6/15/2016 9:31 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I think you guys are missing the point. I can check for 64-bit alignment by casting to ubyte: ((cast(ubyte)ptr) & 0x07) == 0 Walter: I don't see why the optimizer doesn't figure out the fastest way to do this, even with size_t. You are

[Issue 10524] Switch skips initialization of 'with' variable

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10524 Walter Bright changed: What|Removed |Added Keywords||pull

[Issue 14532] switch block allows creating uninitialized variables

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14532 Walter Bright changed: What|Removed |Added Keywords||pull --- Comment

Articles/Doc repo on Official dlang github

I don't know if this has been asked before and I am too lazy to search. Has anyone brought up the idea of adding a repo to the official dlang project on github with Articles. I know the website has a section but think that a repo with md files might get more collaboration and result in more

Debugging D in windows

Hi, I am trying to debug in windows. So far I am trying to use windbg like described here: http://dlang.org/windbg.html However, in windbg when using "g _Dmain" I get an error message: "No Debuggee specified". Can anybody tell me what I am missing here? I could not find anything online and

Release candidate 1.0.0-rc.1 is out

Am 07.06.2016 um 11:54 schrieb Sönke Ludwig: DUB 1.0.0 is nearing completion. The new feature over 0.9.25 is support for single-file packages, which can be used to write shebang-style scripts on Posix systems: #!/usr/bin/env dub /+ dub.sdl: name "colortest"

Re: GTKD - Application crashes - or not? [Coedit]

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 13:15:56 UTC, Rene Zwanenburg wrote: I'm not familiar with Coedit, but the run options seem to contain a field for setting it: https://github.com/BBasile/Coedit/wiki#run-options You may be able to use the symbolic strings there:

Re: arr.ptr, @safe and void*

On 6/15/16 6:32 AM, Nick Treleaven wrote: Hi, Walter's made a fix for arr[$..$].ptr being unsafe to dereference - .ptr will be @system: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/5860 A referenced druntime pull mentioned having a safe wrapper for ..ptr that allows comparison of the pointer value, but

Re: Accessing COM Objects

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 16:45:39 UTC, Joerg Joergonson wrote: Thanks. When I ran it I got a d file! when I tried to use that d file I get undefined IID and IDispatch. I imagine these interfaces come from somewhere, probably built in? Any ideas? Add the following after the module name:

Re: Garbage Collector

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 13:56:09 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: One guy wrote the LuaJIT GC, which beat almost everyone else in performance when I last checked “The current garbage collector is relatively slow compared to implementations for other language runtimes. It's not competitive with

Re: Garbage Collector

On 16/06/2016 4:52 AM, Konstantin wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 13:40:11 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: 5. The requirements for our GC is quite intricate. I.e. you can't just pop in one that doesn't understand about our Thread Local Storage (TLS) and stuff. D’s TLS that different from

Re: Accessing COM Objects

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 15:12:06 UTC, thedeemon wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 07:01:30 UTC, Joerg Joergonson wrote: It seems idl2d from VD is not easily compilable? I don't remember problems with that, anyway here's the binary I used: http://stuff.thedeemon.com/idl2d.exe

Re: Accessing COM Objects

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 08:24:41 UTC, John wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 08:21:06 UTC, John wrote: OK, adding the return type to the signature should fix that. So: private static Parameter getParameters(MethodImpl method) Sorry, I meant the getParameter methods should return

Re: Garbage Collector

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 13:40:11 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: 5. The requirements for our GC is quite intricate. I.e. you can't just pop in one that doesn't understand about our Thread Local Storage (TLS) and stuff. D’s TLS that different from .NET's TLS?

Re: Accessing COM Objects

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 16:03:04 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote: On Monday, 13 June 2016 at 01:22:33 UTC, Incognito wrote: [...] There is also: https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/Juno-Windows-Class-Library It kind of provides similar highlevel options as the "Modern COM Programming in D."

Re: Garbage Collector

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 13:27:47 UTC, jmh530 wrote: Possible to disable. I don’t want to: for the last couple years I’ve been developing 50/50 C++/C#, and I admit I’m usually more productive using C#, one of the reasons of that is GC. They've got a GSOC guy workin' on it now. I would

Re: std.experimental.checkedint is ready for comments!

PR: https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/4407 DUB: http://code.dlang.org/packages/checkedint Thanks for this work. Documentation can be seen here:

Re: size_t vs uintptr_t

On 6/14/16 10:04 PM, deadalnix wrote: On Tuesday, 14 June 2016 at 23:19:12 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/14/2016 3:38 PM, Guillaume Boucher wrote: Isn't it guaranteed that x.sizeof >= x.alignof? (At least it is in C and C++.) So the alignment should be of type size_t and not of type

Re: ndslice: convert a sliced object to T[]

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 14:14:23 UTC, Seb wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 13:13:05 UTC, data pulverizer And where can I find more cool tricks like that? Browse the source code and the unittests. Phobos is an amazing resource :) Very true! That's great many thanks!

Re: Accessing COM Objects

On Monday, 13 June 2016 at 01:22:33 UTC, Incognito wrote: I've been reading over D's com and can't find anything useful. It seems there are different ways: http://www.lunesu.com/uploads/ModernCOMProgramminginD.pdf which is of no help and requires an idl file, which I don't have. Then

Re: Anybody still using the chm docs

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 10:58:04 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: So I'm wondering if in 2016 someone really needs an offline copy of a website shipped with a binary release? i use chm doc - it easy integrates with ide

Re: size_t vs uintptr_t

On Tuesday, 14 June 2016 at 21:59:32 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Ok, I admit these are not likely to emerge. Not in desktop, server, or modern mobile phones, but I think there are some embedded platforms that have this concern. I know that's not a huge priority, but it's nice to be mindful of

Re: std.experimental.checkedint is ready for comments!

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 07:17:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/14/2016 11:16 PM, tsbockman wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 00:16:12 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Remove all use of 'you' and 'your' from the documentation. Done. I hope you like the results, and are not doing it just

Re: Button: A fast, correct, and elegantly simple build system.

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 15:39:47 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 06/15/2016 08:05 AM, John Colvin wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 11:47:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/15/2016 4:07 AM, Edwin van Leeuwen wrote: How about using reggae?

Re: std.experimental.checkedint is ready for comments!

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 07:16:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/14/2016 9:48 PM, tsbockman wrote: `Int`? `Base`? 'Integer' would work fine. `BaseInt`? `SmartInt!Integer` looks weird to me, because of the repetition. Also, if we're going to use a long name like that I think it

Re: Button: A fast, correct, and elegantly simple build system.

On 06/15/2016 08:05 AM, John Colvin wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 11:47:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/15/2016 4:07 AM, Edwin van Leeuwen wrote: How about using reggae? https://github.com/atilaneves/phobos/blob/reggae/reggaefile.d I haven't studied either. If you do study that

Re: std.experimental.checkedint is ready for comments!

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 07:08:22 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/14/2016 9:57 PM, tsbockman wrote: The intent is just as clear this way, and it's less verbose. Ok. I'd just change the constraint to: if (isIntegral!N || isCheckedint!N) You can do the qualification machinations using

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