Re: Forums intermittently going down?

2018-09-25 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 21:20:29 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: Sometimes the database (SQLite) SQLite was designed initially to be single local process, one connection. You should get much better results with postgres though of course it has some maintenance overhead (mainly

Re: is there something like `stm32-rs` in D?

2018-09-25 Thread Radu via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 26 September 2018 at 03:46:21 UTC, dangbinghoo wrote: hi, https://github.com/adamgreig/stm32-rs looks great, is there something like this in Dlang? thanks! --- dangbinghoo You might take a look at https://github.com/JinShil/stm32f42_discovery_demo and

discussion of bulletproof equipment; exchange of good ideas

2018-09-25 Thread JeanBee via Digitalmars-d
Hello everyone. I am new here. I am an employee of Newtech armor, a great manufacturer of body armor, we produce HAP, Bulletproof Vest, Shield and Helmet. We used to tender for many armies from different countries like Pakistan, and have established long-term partnership with many counties. I

Re: Can I create static c callable library?

2018-09-25 Thread 9il via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 11:03:11 UTC, John Burton wrote: I need to write a library to statically link into a c program. Can I write this library in D? Will I be able to use proper D abilities like gc? Obviously the public interface will need to be basic c callable functions... I

is there something like `stm32-rs` in D?

2018-09-25 Thread dangbinghoo via Digitalmars-d-learn
hi, https://github.com/adamgreig/stm32-rs looks great, is there something like this in Dlang? thanks! --- dangbinghoo

Re: Forums intermittently going down?

2018-09-25 Thread CharlesM via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 26 September 2018 at 02:42:15 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Wednesday, 26 September 2018 at 02:28:27 UTC, CharlesM wrote: If you're using SQLite you don't need to specify the size of the columns, for what I gather it's useless for this DB. Yep, this is mostly descriptive.

Re: Forums intermittently going down?

2018-09-25 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 26 September 2018 at 02:28:27 UTC, CharlesM wrote: If you're using SQLite you don't need to specify the size of the columns, for what I gather it's useless for this DB. Yep, this is mostly descriptive. Types in column declarations have mostly the same effect. And if I'm not

Re: Forums intermittently going down?

2018-09-25 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 26 September 2018 at 01:52:31 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: What version of SQLite are you using? AFAIK, SQLite itself does support concurrent access. Though it does have to be explicitly compiled with that option, otherwise it will only issue a runtime error. Of course, locking is

Re: Forums intermittently going down?

2018-09-25 Thread CharlesM via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 21:20:29 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: Sometimes the database (SQLite) https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/blob/master/schema.sql CREATE TABLE [Groups] ( [Group] VARCHAR(50) NULL, [ArtNum] INTEGER NULL, [ID] VARCHAR(50) NULL , Time INTEGER); If you're

Re: Forums intermittently going down?

2018-09-25 Thread CharlesM via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 26 September 2018 at 01:52:31 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: I don't know what your schema looks like, so it's hard to give specifics https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/blob/master/schema.sql

OT: Bad translations

2018-09-25 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d
On 09/24/2018 08:17 AM, 0xEAB wrote: > - Non-idiomatic translations of tech terms [2] This is something I had heard from a Digital Research programmer in early 90s: English message was something like "No memory left" and the German translation was "No memory on the left hand side" :) Ali

Re: Forums intermittently going down?

2018-09-25 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d
On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 01:07:29AM +, Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d wrote: [...] > One thing possible with a traditional RDBMS that's not possible with > SQLite is processing several simultaneous requests. The synchronous > API translates to the synchronous nature of the entire

Re: How to correctly deal with dmd.conf with multiple dmd installations - [ref osx, brew, digger]

2018-09-25 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 10:34:17 UTC, aliak wrote: When you do `digger install` it seems to not “install” a `dmd.conf` but it does install the `dmd` binary in `/usr/local/bin/dmd` - but that wasn’t built with `SYSCONFDIR` so it doesn’t find `/usr/local/etc/dmd.conf` either, but even

Re: Warn on unused imports?

2018-09-25 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, September 25, 2018 1:21:50 PM MDT Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On 09/25/2018 09:14 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > On Tuesday, September 25, 2018 7:03:30 AM MDT FeepingCreature via > > > > Digitalmars-d wrote: > >> I'm playing with a branch of DMD that would

Re: Forums intermittently going down?

2018-09-25 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 21:42:40 UTC, bachmeier wrote: How much data can there possibly be for a mailing list? Currently, 3.8 GB. A good part of that is the full-text index required for searching. (It does work really well, though - no need for Lucene or such.) I regularly see

Re: Forums intermittently going down?

2018-09-25 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 21:20:29 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: Sometimes the database (SQLite) behaves unusually slow until you tell it to analyze itself, then it figures out some internal index it has to use that it wasn't using before (with no changes to schema). Those analysis

Re: Forums intermittently going down?

2018-09-25 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 21:12:54 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Well, I thought it might be GC related also. It behaves similarly to how you would expect a GC pause to behave (several fast responses, then one that takes 5 seconds to come back). I think that would be plausible if

Re: Forums intermittently going down?

2018-09-25 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 21:12:54 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I'll note that when I started running into DB slowdowns on a system (not related to D), adding one index fixed the issue. Sometimes linear searches are fast enough to hide in plain sight :) I'm no DBA. Here's the

Re: Forums intermittently going down?

2018-09-25 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d
On 9/25/18 5:05 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 08:41:51PM +, Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 18:26:58 UTC, CharlesM wrote: Yeah it happened again today. I heard this site was made in D, maybe is because the GC? No, just old

Re: Forums intermittently going down?

2018-09-25 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 08:41:51PM +, Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 18:26:58 UTC, CharlesM wrote: > > Yeah it happened again today. I heard this site was made in D, maybe > > is because the GC? > > No, just old server hardware and database

[Issue 19265] Multiple calls to rt_init/rt_term leads to SIGILL in _d_initMonoTime

2018-09-25 Thread d-bugmail--- via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19265 --- Comment #1 from Tomáš Chaloupka --- Other test case: extern extern(C) int _d_run_main(int, char**, void*); extern (C) int rt_init(); extern (C) int rt_term(); extern(C) int main(int argc, char** argv) { rt_init(); rt_term();

Re: Forums intermittently going down?

2018-09-25 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 21 September 2018 at 00:57:42 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: Performance should now be back to normal. Looks like my previous hunch as to why it was slow was off. Should be fixed now.

Re: Forums intermittently going down?

2018-09-25 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 18:26:58 UTC, CharlesM wrote: Yeah it happened again today. I heard this site was made in D, maybe is because the GC? No, just old server hardware and database fragmentation.

[Issue 19265] New: Multiple calls to rt_init/rt_term leads to SIGILL in _d_initMonoTime

2018-09-25 Thread d-bugmail--- via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19265 Issue ID: 19265 Summary: Multiple calls to rt_init/rt_term leads to SIGILL in _d_initMonoTime Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: x86_64 OS: Linux

Natvis, CV8, dAssocArray

2018-09-25 Thread Void-995 via Digitalmars-d-debugger
I almost finished my -gc for Natvis experiment (to use MS C++ Debugger from VS Code, fully translating type names from what comes from DMD frontend to valid C++ type name so Natvis works), but then I encountered dAssocArray, which has form of: void* as CodeView structure member, KeyType

Re: Rather D1 then D2

2018-09-25 Thread Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d
On 09/22/2018 10:31 AM, Jonathan Marler wrote: On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 13:25:27 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Then D isn't the right choice for you. I think it makes for a better community if we can be more welcoming, helpful a gracious instead of responding to criticism this way.

Re: How to correctly deal with dmd.conf with multiple dmd installations - [ref osx, brew, digger]

2018-09-25 Thread Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d
On 09/25/2018 06:34 AM, aliak wrote: Alo, I'm wondering what’s the deal with dmd.conf and what’s the correct way to handle it with dmd installations. Basically, you want an appropriate, matching `dmd.conf` together with (ie, "in the same directory as") each `dmd` executable. No other

Re: Warn on unused imports?

2018-09-25 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
On 2018-09-25 16:20, FeepingCreature wrote: If that's the way D wanted to go, it shouldn't have turned itself into a metaprogramming monster that's completely unevaluable by Linter tools, *or* it should offer some way to dump a fixed-format lowered representation with line number information

Re: Updating D beyond Unicode 2.0

2018-09-25 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
On 2018-09-21 18:27, Neia Neutuladh wrote: D's currently accepted identifier characters are based on Unicode 2.0: * ASCII range values are handled specially. * Letters and combining marks from Unicode 2.0 are accepted. * Numbers outside the ASCII range are accepted. * Eight random punctuation

Re: Warn on unused imports?

2018-09-25 Thread Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d
On 09/25/2018 09:14 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Tuesday, September 25, 2018 7:03:30 AM MDT FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d wrote: I'm playing with a branch of DMD that would warn on unused imports: https://github.com/FeepingCreature/dmd/tree/feature/Issue-3507-warn-on-unu sed-imports Two

Re: D web site and accessibility

2018-09-25 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
On 9/25/2018 1:49 AM, Chris wrote: This said, I was working with a blind person a couple of years ago (I think it was 3 years ago) and he used D for one of his assignments, he never had a problem with the documentation. That's good to hear.

Re: How to correctly deal with dmd.conf with multiple dmd installations - [ref osx, brew, digger]

2018-09-25 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 09:00:57PM +0200, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On 2018-09-25 13:55, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > > Yes. You want dmd.conf, or certain paths won't be set correctly > > (like where to find Phobos). Personally, I'd strongly suggest > > against having multiple

Re: How to correctly deal with dmd.conf with multiple dmd installations - [ref osx, brew, digger]

2018-09-25 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
On 2018-09-25 13:55, Jonathan M Davis wrote: Yes. You want dmd.conf, or certain paths won't be set correctly (like where to find Phobos). Personally, I'd strongly suggest against having multiple copies of dmd installed at the same time. It just sounds like a recipe for disaster. Regardless,

Re: Rather D1 then D2

2018-09-25 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
On 2018-09-22 10:48, Nemanja Borić wrote: So it is possible to use D2 language and compiler and avoid all the features that you don't like, at least to a reasonable degree, and as a bonus you still get to cherry pick D2 features you like (and there are some even for D1 minded person). Yeah,

Re: Why is CI not running dmd's unittests?

2018-09-25 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
On 2018-09-22 15:29, wolframw wrote: Hi, I ran the dmd unittests on my Windows machine today and one of the tests in filename.d asserted. The cause for this has already been noticed a few days ago by someone else [1] but not by CI. Is it well-known that the dmd unittests (at least for the

Re: Forums intermittently going down?

2018-09-25 Thread CharlesM via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 17 September 2018 at 11:02:39 UTC, Michael wrote: ... Yeah it happened again today. I heard this site was made in D, maybe is because the GC?

Re: Forums intermittently going down?

2018-09-25 Thread PassingBy via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 21 September 2018 at 00:57:42 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Monday, 17 September 2018 at 11:51:04 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: The high load is temporary, but will take a week or two to resolve. Performance should now be back to normal. forum.dlang.org is temporarily down

Re: Can I create static c callable library?

2018-09-25 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 9/25/18 10:13 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 12:05:21 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: If you use -betterC, then it's trivial, because your D program is restricted to extern(C) functions and features which don't require druntime. It can also be done without -betterC

[Issue 19264] byCodeUnit should compare with strings

2018-09-25 Thread d-bugmail--- via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19264 --- Comment #1 from Steven Schveighoffer --- It shouldn't matter the constancy of the original. This should also work: assert("hello".byCodeUnit == "hello".dup.byCodeUnit); --

[Issue 19264] New: byCodeUnit should compare with strings

2018-09-25 Thread d-bugmail--- via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19264 Issue ID: 19264 Summary: byCodeUnit should compare with strings Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: x86 OS: Mac OS X Status: NEW Severity: enhancement

Re: D web site and accessibility

2018-09-25 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 15:10:53 UTC, aberba wrote: Aside using semantic HTML elements like strong, em,... the WAI-ARIA standard follows. Also the use of title, alt and tab-index is also encouraged in forms (where necessary). This article highlights some of the most important

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-25 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 13:16:14 UTC, Chris wrote: The captchas are awful, why would you want to waste brain cycles on that if you wanna send a one line response or so... If it is for mitigate spam/bot, you can easily by pass it with a simple script[1]. I'd prefer a captcha system

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-25 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 07:43:39 UTC, Kagamin wrote: I don't think you can go into programming from absolute zero. So I assume for what you're saying that anybody who comes here already knows at least: ternary, promotion, implicit casting. For example: If a person knows VB/Delphi

Re: D web site and accessibility

2018-09-25 Thread aberba via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 24 September 2018 at 15:19:01 UTC, Chris wrote: On Monday, 24 September 2018 at 03:50:57 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Monday, 24 September 2018 at 03:16:50 UTC, Bauss wrote: like the use of b tags on the front page, they should be replaced by strong tags The two usages of

SOLVED: I'll put it in -deps

2018-09-25 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 14:28:48 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote: Maybe stick the info in -v or -deps? Actually, -deps is the perfect place for it. It needs to recursively evaluate modules anyways, so it'll see an import even if it was only used from a template. And it doesn't spam up

Re: Warn on unused imports?

2018-09-25 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 14:15:32 UTC, Dominikus Dittes Scherkl wrote: On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 13:03:30 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote: I'm playing with a branch of DMD that would warn on unused imports:

Re: Warn on unused imports?

2018-09-25 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 13:14:36 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: If something is definitively wrong, then it should be an error. If it's not definitively wrong, then the compiler shouldn't say anything about it, and it should be left up to a linter tool of some kind like dcd. -

Re: Warn on unused imports?

2018-09-25 Thread Dominikus Dittes Scherkl via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 13:03:30 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote: I'm playing with a branch of DMD that would warn on unused imports: https://github.com/FeepingCreature/dmd/tree/feature/Issue-3507-warn-on-unused-imports Two problems have arisen. First: import std.stdio; void foo(T)() {

Re: Can I create static c callable library?

2018-09-25 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 12:05:21 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: If you use -betterC, then it's trivial, because your D program is restricted to extern(C) functions and features which don't require druntime. It can also be done without -betterC (and thus with druntime), but it gets to

Re: Warn on unused imports?

2018-09-25 Thread Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 13:03:30 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote: I'm playing with a branch of DMD that would warn on unused imports: Honestly, I hate these types of warnings/errors. It makes playing with and designing code such a chore. I hope this is opt-in.

Re: Copy Constructor DIP and implementation

2018-09-25 Thread Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 12:33:30 UTC, RazvanN wrote: After discussing with Walter and Andrei we have decided that we are going to drop @implicit for now as it may cause bugs (as Jonathan has highlighted) and consider constructors that have the form this(ref $q1 S rhs) $q2 as copy

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-25 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 16:48:35 UTC, SashaGreat wrote: I'll not create a topic to check this behavior, but this message doesn't show up when replying inside a topic. PS: By the way the CAPTCHA is awful, look what they throw to us: int v() { return 26 % 3 ? 13 / 3 : 42

Re: Warn on unused imports?

2018-09-25 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, September 25, 2018 7:03:30 AM MDT FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d wrote: > I'm playing with a branch of DMD that would warn on unused > imports: > > https://github.com/FeepingCreature/dmd/tree/feature/Issue-3507-warn-on-unu > sed-imports > > Two problems have arisen. > > First: > >

Re: Warn on unused imports?

2018-09-25 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 13:03:30 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote: I'm playing with a branch of DMD that would warn on unused imports: [...] For instance, I've been thinking about hiding the warning behind an additional flag (-wunused-imports or -wu?) so that it's opt-in. Would that be

Warn on unused imports?

2018-09-25 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d
I'm playing with a branch of DMD that would warn on unused imports: https://github.com/FeepingCreature/dmd/tree/feature/Issue-3507-warn-on-unused-imports Two problems have arisen. First: import std.stdio; void foo(T)() { writeln("Hello World"); } foo.d: Warning: unused import To be fair,

Re: Copy Constructor DIP and implementation

2018-09-25 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, September 25, 2018 6:33:30 AM MDT RazvanN via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > After discussing with Walter and Andrei we have decided that we > are going to drop @implicit for now as it may cause bugs (as > Jonathan has highlighted) and consider constructors that have the > form

Re: Updating D beyond Unicode 2.0

2018-09-25 Thread Dukc via Digitalmars-d
When I make code that I expect to be only used around here, I generally write the code itself in english but comments in my own language. I agree that in general, it's better to stick with english in identifiers when the programming language and the standard library is English. On Tuesday,

Re: Can I create static c callable library?

2018-09-25 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, September 25, 2018 5:03:11 AM MDT John Burton via Digitalmars-d- learn wrote: > I need to write a library to statically link into a c program. > Can I write this library in D? > Will I be able to use proper D abilities like gc? Obviously the > public interface will need to be basic c

Re: How to correctly deal with dmd.conf with multiple dmd installations - [ref osx, brew, digger]

2018-09-25 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, September 25, 2018 4:34:17 AM MDT aliak via Digitalmars-d wrote: > Alo, > > I'm wondering what’s the deal with dmd.conf and what’s the > correct way to handle it with dmd installations. > > Scenario: `brew install dmd` puts dmd in `/usr/local/bin/dmd` > (symlink) and sets the

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-25 Thread bauss via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 07:43:39 UTC, Kagamin wrote: On Monday, 24 September 2018 at 12:56:43 UTC, JN wrote: Well, it requires you to know what a ternary operator is It wouldn't be a captcha if the questions were like "what is the most popular social network?". Also int doesn't

Re: D web site and accessibility

2018-09-25 Thread bauss via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 08:49:13 UTC, Chris wrote: On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 06:01:58 UTC, bauss wrote: On Monday, 24 September 2018 at 03:50:57 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Monday, 24 September 2018 at 03:16:50 UTC, Bauss wrote: like the use of b tags on the front page,

[Issue 19263] New: Segfault trying to print out a default-initialized SysTime

2018-09-25 Thread d-bugmail--- via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19263 Issue ID: 19263 Summary: Segfault trying to print out a default-initialized SysTime Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: All OS: Linux Status: NEW

Can I create static c callable library?

2018-09-25 Thread John Burton via Digitalmars-d-learn
I need to write a library to statically link into a c program. Can I write this library in D? Will I be able to use proper D abilities like gc? Obviously the public interface will need to be basic c callable functions... I 'main' is a c program will this work?

How to correctly deal with dmd.conf with multiple dmd installations - [ref osx, brew, digger]

2018-09-25 Thread aliak via Digitalmars-d
Alo, I'm wondering what’s the deal with dmd.conf and what’s the correct way to handle it with dmd installations. Scenario: `brew install dmd` puts dmd in `/usr/local/bin/dmd` (symlink) and sets the `SYSCONFDIR` in its build config so `dmd.conf` is in `/usr/local/etc/dmd.conf`. AFAICT:

Re: Updating D beyond Unicode 2.0

2018-09-25 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 21 September 2018 at 23:17:42 UTC, Seb wrote: In all seriousness I hate it when someone thought its funny to use the lambda symbol as an identifier and I have to copy that symbol whenever I want to use it because there's no convenient way to type it. (This is already supported in

Re: Updating D beyond Unicode 2.0

2018-09-25 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
On 9/23/2018 12:06 PM, Abdulhaq wrote: The early history of computer science is completely dominated by cultures who use latin script based characters, Small character sets are much more implementable on primitive systems like telegraphs and electro-mechanical ttys. It wasn't even practical

Re: D web site and accessibility

2018-09-25 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 06:01:58 UTC, bauss wrote: On Monday, 24 September 2018 at 03:50:57 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Monday, 24 September 2018 at 03:16:50 UTC, Bauss wrote: like the use of b tags on the front page, they should be replaced by strong tags The two usages of

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-25 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 24 September 2018 at 12:56:43 UTC, JN wrote: Well, it requires you to know what a ternary operator is It wouldn't be a captcha if the questions were like "what is the most popular social network?". Also int doesn't implicitly convert to bool. On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at

Re: D web site and accessibility

2018-09-25 Thread bauss via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 24 September 2018 at 03:50:57 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Monday, 24 September 2018 at 03:16:50 UTC, Bauss wrote: like the use of b tags on the front page, they should be replaced by strong tags The two usages of are part of the presentation, not content. Their use is

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-25 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 05:52:57 UTC, bauss wrote: Not for someone who is just introduced to programming and doesn't D want to attract newcomers? If so we cannot have a programmer specific captcha. https://forum.dlang.org/post/vrehthdqtenpnysru...@forum.dlang.org Please address the

Re: D web site and accessibility

2018-09-25 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 05:57:06 UTC, bauss wrote: On Monday, 24 September 2018 at 03:50:57 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: The two usages of are part of the presentation, not content. Their use is correct. I disagree: That doesn't address the argument. A program can't know whether

Re: D web site and accessibility

2018-09-25 Thread bauss via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 24 September 2018 at 03:50:57 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Monday, 24 September 2018 at 03:16:50 UTC, Bauss wrote: like the use of b tags on the front page, they should be replaced by strong tags The two usages of are part of the presentation, not content. Their use is