On Tuesday, 15 April 2014 at 20:56:24 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 16:06:26 -0400, Walter Bright
newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote:
On 4/15/2014 12:57 PM, monarch_dodra wrote:
I mean, if we want this to actually be useful in Phobos (or
other), it will
require
On Tuesday, 15 April 2014 at 17:01:38 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP60
Start on implementation:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/3455
Would @nogc apply to code being evaluated at compile-time? I
don't think it should.
On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 06:35:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/17/2014 9:23 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
Would @nogc apply to code being evaluated at compile-time? I
don't think it should.
Yes, it would be. Compile time functions are not special, in
fact, there is no such thing in D.
But
On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 14:45:37 UTC, Byron wrote:
On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 11:55:14 +, w0rp wrote:
I'm not convinced that any automatic memory management scheme
will buy
much with real time applications. Generally with real-time
processes,
you need to pre-allocate. I think GC could be
On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 15:49:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 4/18/14, 8:30 AM, David Gileadi wrote:
It does mean that the site is static HTML, so any dynamism
needs to be
JS-only (and I think any efforts to make the pages largely
JS-driven
would meet resistance).
We can (and
On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 14:04:04 UTC, Aleksandar Ruzicic
wrote:
snip
I have also tried to design something myself (although I'm not
a designer) and this is what I came up with:
http://krcko.net/dlang.org/dlang-home-draft1.png
I'm not entirely satisfied with it but I believe that it
On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 16:25:10 UTC, Aleksandar Ruzicic
wrote:
On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 15:30:52 UTC, David Gileadi wrote:
As the guy who was mostly responsible for the current look and
feel of the website I can provide some insight into the effort
required. The website is built
On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 23:34:33 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 4/30/14, 4:19 PM, froglegs wrote:
Here is an alternative:
1. classes are unique by default, they cannot be shared. No
GC or RF
required, and covers 90% of objects.
Where does 90% come from? On the contrary, it
On Thursday, 1 May 2014 at 17:24:58 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 5/1/14, 10:09 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Thu, 01 May 2014 12:07:19 -0400, Dicebot
pub...@dicebot.lv wrote:
On Thursday, 1 May 2014 at 15:37:21 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 5/1/14, 8:04 AM, Dicebot wrote:
On
On Monday, 5 May 2014 at 17:56:11 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Saturday, 3 May 2014 at 12:26:13 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
On Saturday, 3 May 2014 at 12:24:59 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
Out of curiosity are you on Windows?
No, Arch Linux 64-bit. I also just noticed a glaring
threading bug in my
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 00:10:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
So I'm looking at creation functions and in particular creation
functions for arrays.
I like Adam's input range idea. It gives you the best of both
worlds, I think. It clears the conflict between ints and lengths
using an
On Wednesday, 7 May 2014 at 18:26:08 UTC, Maxime
Chevalier-Boisvert wrote:
I have a very specific use case (JIT compiler) in which I have
a pre-allocated array of wchar string data stored somewhere in
memory. I'd like to be able to create a temporary D wstring
object to pass this as a regular
On Wednesday, 21 May 2014 at 03:15:34 UTC, Manu via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On 21 May 2014 05:15, Temtaime via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d@puremagic.com wrote:
Sorry i misunderstood you.
Yes dmd supports x64 on windows but it doesn't work without
external tools.
It's a main trouble i think.
On Thursday, 22 May 2014 at 18:03:16 UTC, Jeremy Powers via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
Dub (code.dlang.org) has emerged as the standard build tool for
D. Yet
there doesn't look to be any mention of it on the D site
proper...
Would it be reasonable to include dub with the DMD installer?
Or
On Thursday, 22 May 2014 at 19:20:12 UTC, Etienne wrote:
On 2014-05-22 3:11 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
On 5/22/2014 2:06 PM, Dicebot wrote:
Main blocker is transition to SDL as default project
description format
Is there anything blocking actual adoption of SDL? I'm not
holding
anything up
On Monday, 26 May 2014 at 17:22:47 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
What's the title of the HN posting so I can find it?
Asynchronous I/O that doesn’t get in your way, written in D
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 14:14:40 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
It was really funny to observe output of DFeed during the
conference by the way - PR merges, issue comments and casual
hacking have never stopped. I am somewhat surprised no one has
managed to create a pull request right in the middle
On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 14:04:04 UTC, Aleksandar Ruzicic
wrote:
Hello,
I've been D enthusiast for couple of years now (but I do not
participate much in discussions here, although I read forums
almost daily), and I keep telling people about D and how
awesome it is.
But, all this time
On Friday, 30 May 2014 at 05:45:52 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Thing is the allocation patterns in D and Java are mightily
different. Java does need a good GC because it allocates
everywhere for everything. I think we need to come up with our
own measurements and statistics when it comes
On Sunday, 1 June 2014 at 13:29:38 UTC, w0rp wrote:
I just updated the site. Here are the main changes.
snip
Had to force a refresh to see the changes. I can't decide if I
like the dark background better or worse. Either looks fine
though.
On Monday, 2 June 2014 at 20:07:00 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/GuidedTour.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40014097-CH2
Same mistake with syntatically ambiguous template syntax.
Maybe the deprecated
On Monday, 2 June 2014 at 19:19:27 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Just thought it would be nice to give a heads up about Apple's
plans to replace Objective-C in the long run.
The language was presented today at the WWDC Keynote, looks
like Ruby, uses ARC alongside the Objective-C runtime.
On Monday, 2 June 2014 at 19:19:27 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Just thought it would be nice to give a heads up about Apple's
plans to replace Objective-C in the long run.
The language was presented today at the WWDC Keynote, looks
like Ruby, uses ARC alongside the Objective-C runtime.
On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 03:12:05 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
HN discussion: http://www.splasmata.com/?p=2798
That should be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7849213
On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 22:06:02 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:
On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 08:49:18 UTC, Jonathan M Davis via
Digitalmars-d
long days;
int seconds;
short msecs;
d.split!(days, seconds, msecs)(days, seconds,
msecs);
Please don't use pass-by-pointer in D APIs. It
On Monday, 16 June 2014 at 17:05:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 6/16/14, 4:45 AM, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
On 16/06/2014 11:14 p.m., seeker wrote:
NO IT'S NOT!
no working/incomplete windows headers for 32 and 64 bit.
no gui or db lib and tons of abandoned libs and proggies that
you
On Thursday, 19 June 2014 at 21:57:03 UTC, FreeSlave wrote:
Is there any good icon for D source files? Now .d files look
like plain text files. I changed mime on my Debian to use dlang
site logo for .d files, but it looks weird among with others
(C, C++, etc.)
I'm not artist, but I see there
On Friday, 20 June 2014 at 19:22:04 UTC, Brian Schott wrote:
http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP64
Attributes in D have two problems:
1. There are too many of them and declarations are getting too
verbose
2. New attributes use @ and the old ones do not.
I've created a DIP to address these issues.
I
On Saturday, 21 June 2014 at 00:47:23 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Xinok:
I get the feeling that, because he is utilizing UFCS, that it
is actually calling the built-in array sort and not
std.algorithm.sort. The built-in sort is 3-4x slower, so that
would explain why his naive quicksort
On Saturday, 21 June 2014 at 00:56:32 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
On Friday, 20 June 2014 at 23:34:32 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/28mp3m/the_magic_forest_problem_revisited_optimising/
The article indicates there may be a performance problem with
On Thursday, 26 June 2014 at 18:55:38 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 05:45:23PM +, Meta via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Thursday, 26 June 2014 at 17:26:02 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Meta:
There has been discussion before about doing away with string
lambdas.
On Tuesday, 1 July 2014 at 12:40:21 UTC, w0rp wrote:
On Tuesday, 1 July 2014 at 12:38:39 UTC, w0rp wrote:
On Tuesday, 1 July 2014 at 07:40:03 UTC, Alix Pexton wrote:
On 01/07/2014 7:42 AM, w0rp wrote:
The logo on the site I'm testing is the most effective duck.
The logo is a placeholder I
On Tuesday, 1 July 2014 at 08:34:30 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
On Monday, 30 June 2014 at 21:23:59 UTC, David Gileadi wrote:
My opinion is that the redesign preserves the spirit of the
current logo while fitting in well with the flatter look. I
think someone who sees the one logo will
On Tuesday, 1 July 2014 at 17:45:02 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
There is currently an effort made by w0rp to redesign the D
website. This is a good thing and i applaud his efforts. The
website really does need an overhaul. However i find it
extremely alarming that there is a casual disregard
On Wednesday, 2 July 2014 at 11:56:39 UTC, Shammah Chancellor
wrote:
snip
Walter, I've been involved with D since 2001 (iirc? 0.064 i
think?) I absolutely love your language and the project. The
D Programming Languages deserves more usage and notoriety since
it *is* the best programming
On Wednesday, 2 July 2014 at 10:23:12 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Wednesday, 2 July 2014 at 08:59:06 UTC, Alix Pexton wrote:
[Incidentally, I found the copyright notice that goes with the
current logo at the bottom of this page:
http://media.sukimashita.com/d/ (the gallery of designs
On Wednesday, 2 July 2014 at 20:04:50 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
snip
The 'new' design by w0rp (http://w0rp.com:8010/) does none of
those things. He's well intentioned but even things like basic
text layout and white space usage are completely lacking.
On Wednesday, 2 July 2014 at 23:16:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 7/2/14, 4:00 PM, Israel Rodriguez wrote:
Or you know...you could rename D to maybe something
likeThe Mars
programming language?
I think we should have an FAQ for that stuff. -- Andrei
I actually added a FAQ entry
On Wednesday, 2 July 2014 at 23:33:33 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 11:00:52PM +, Israel Rodriguez via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
Or you know...you could rename D to maybe something
likeThe Mars
programming language? The name isnt taken, and im sure it
On Wednesday, 2 July 2014 at 23:25:13 UTC, w0rp wrote:
On Wednesday, 2 July 2014 at 23:18:13 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
On Wednesday, 2 July 2014 at 23:16:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 7/2/14, 4:00 PM, Israel Rodriguez wrote:
Or you know...you could rename D to maybe something
On Thursday, 3 July 2014 at 00:17:49 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/2/2014 4:18 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
On Wednesday, 2 July 2014 at 23:16:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 7/2/14, 4:00 PM, Israel Rodriguez wrote:
Or you know...you could rename D to maybe something
likeThe Mars
On Thursday, 3 July 2014 at 14:44:06 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
[...]
Very nice; thank you. Though, having thought on it some more,
I would suggest the capital D and the two moons are the most
important aspect in terms of a distinctive mark.
The red background is currently an element of the logo
On Thursday, 3 July 2014 at 11:40:34 UTC, Alix Pexton wrote:
I agree!
I started working on this little document last night while
angry and tired, maybe it should find its way to the wiki.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Sb4xnZUbzVRIicsfnxBFhTvRH4EOYq88wZexAuGcnaE/edit
Its the last time
On Thursday, 3 July 2014 at 21:02:53 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Thursday, 3 July 2014 at 19:46:18 UTC, Alix Pexton wrote:
I agree, it may be a happy accident that a shape that was
meant to be part of the glossy sheen on the image got
interpreted as the distant Martian horizon, but the
On Friday, 4 July 2014 at 00:11:25 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
[...]
I've had this .svg of the flat version of the logo around for a
few years that is a bit cleaner than the one you quickly put
together (sharper edges, and I think your bottom is truncated a
bit). Feel free to use it.
On Tuesday, 8 July 2014 at 15:57:40 UTC, David Gileadi wrote:
On Friday, 4 July 2014 at 20:31:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/4/2014 5:49 AM, Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Now *that* I definitely cannot work on. It's a complete
conflict of
interest due to our two companies. :)
On Tuesday, 8 July 2014 at 17:55:15 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
Well sure, but you can't use a class instance living on the
stack
as the context for a callback. At that point, whatever smart
pointer you're using has to be discarded. This is actually why
I
find little use for
On Tuesday, 8 July 2014 at 18:23:41 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
On Tuesday, 8 July 2014 at 18:04:14 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
Maybe I'm misunderstanding but why not just use reset()?
reset deletes the currently referenced object.
Oh, I see what you were going for now.
On Wednesday, 9 July 2014 at 02:44:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/8/2014 6:01 PM, Mike wrote:
On Tuesday, 8 July 2014 at 21:22:31 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
1. Ref Counting
I believe that ARC is a pipe dream for D, as we've discussed
extensively here.
But a ref counted object should work,
On Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 21:29:30 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
Not digging into the whole thread.
9. Extensible I/O package to replace our monolitic std.stdio
sitting awkwardly on top of C's legacy. That would imply
integrating it with sockets/pipes and filters/codecs
(compression,
On Monday, 14 July 2014 at 20:56:22 UTC, alexeibs wrote:
Does it work under Windows?
I didn't manage to link it with a simple test app. I added
freeimage package into dependency list inside package.json and
got an error File Not Found freeimage.lib. Then I downloaded
latest archive from
On Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 12:37:10 UTC, w0rp wrote:
The key to making D's GC acceptable lies in two factors I
believe.
1. Improve the implementation enough so that you will only be
impacted by GC in extermely low memory or real time
environments.
2. Defer allocation more and more by using
On Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 22:16:10 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 22:06:01 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
I agreed with this for awhile but following the conversation
here
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2149
I'm more inclined to think we should be adding
Walter's prototype[1] for removing allocations from a phobos
function (std.path.setExtension) got hung up on the naming of the
function. It couldn't keep the same name because it differed only
by return type.
Walter doesn't like explicitly naming them as lazy because
existing lazy functions
On Friday, 18 July 2014 at 08:48:08 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
[...]
Since there are a lot of existing lazy algorithms in Phobos
that do not follow this naming convention, either the
convention is pointless or we go through yet another round of
changing Phobos names and breaking everyone's
On Friday, 18 July 2014 at 17:59:05 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
- abbrev : abbreviated: withAbbrev
abbrev actually doesn't belong in this list. I probably included
a few others mistakenly too.
On Friday, 18 July 2014 at 18:49:13 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
I think it's a fool's errand to try to invent a single system
of naming
that's blindly applied across the board. We should have some
guiding
principles for common cases (like withXxx, xxxOf, verbed,
etc.)
for
On Friday, 18 July 2014 at 19:00:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/18/2014 10:59 AM, Brad Anderson wrote:
What do you think?
I'd leaven that proposal with the observation that functions
are likely to be lexically sorted by name. Hence, like
functions should lexicographically be adjacent to
On Friday, 18 July 2014 at 20:35:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
General comment (not particularly directed at Tourist):
There is no such thing as the perfect set of names and the
perfect naming convention. These discussions about which of
car, auto, vehicle is more intuitive give the illusion
On Friday, 18 July 2014 at 22:37:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/18/2014 2:14 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
It's kind of weird that you'd say that because you seem to be
pretty strongly
opinionated about the naming.
It's not just this one, it comes up again and again, always
spawning long
To summarize what I think are the best ideas so far:
std.string
--
EagerLazy
-
capitalize capitalized
center centered
detabdetabbed
entabentabbed
format formatted
leftJustify
On Tuesday, 22 July 2014 at 22:14:31 UTC, Domingo Alvarez Duarte
wrote:
On Tuesday, 22 July 2014 at 21:36:01 UTC, safety0ff wrote:
You mentioned not knowing which branch, are you on yebblies'
newmagic branch?
On https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd there is no
such branchs !
Is
On Wednesday, 23 July 2014 at 09:16:57 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
I am suspicious. I understand that a situation can be contrived
such that C will lose, but in normal, sensible code the only
language I've ever seen reliably beat C is FORTRAN.
I'm reminded of when headlines came out saying PyPy
On Thursday, 24 July 2014 at 01:17:44 UTC, Joakim wrote:
This means most of 1. and 2. above can be crossed off the list.
I'll start cleaning up my fairly simple build process and
document it on the wiki, so that others can easily play with D
on Android/x86. Most of the patches so far have
On Friday, 25 July 2014 at 17:32:38 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Wyatt wyatt@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday, 25 July 2014 at 15:59:18 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
The D community is hoping those discussion sections start
being
used in the same way the PHP documentation is used.
We are?
Github updated their Issues system (which includes Pull
Requests). You can read about it here:
https://github.com/blog/1866-the-new-github-issues
Bugzilla is here to stay but the newly added Labels feature could
probably help organize Pull Requests. The usual Enhancement,
Bug, etc. are nice
On Monday, 28 July 2014 at 17:31:56 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
[...]
A lot of the time it seems like there is confusion over whose
court the ball is in.
I always forget idioms probably aren't a good idea in an
international community like this one.
On Monday, 28 July 2014 at 18:23:06 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
Daniel Murphy wrote in message
news:lr6249$18pf$1...@digitalmars.com...
Oh FINALLY!!!
I've just labelled all the DDMD pull requests.
Nice.
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+label%3ADDMD
On Tuesday, 29 July 2014 at 10:42:24 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
[...]
I went ahead and have added few labels for Phobos
(https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/labels):
blocked (awaits decision) == Andrei-blocked but named a bit
more generic just in case
blocked by dependency == depends
On Tuesday, 29 July 2014 at 22:02:16 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
On Tuesday, 29 July 2014 at 21:47:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
There's a pretty negative article about disqus making the
rounds:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2c19of/your_users_deserve_better_than_disqus/
On Wednesday, 30 July 2014 at 13:10:35 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
On Wednesday, 30 July 2014 at 00:40:09 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
Andrei did say forum integration would be prefered back when
you mentioned it[1]. The more I think about this though the
more I think you are right that wiki would be
On Friday, 1 August 2014 at 19:34:12 UTC, Andrew Pennebaker wrote:
I'm happy to see an official .DEB for installing DMD! Could we
please host this in a PPA, to make it easier for Debian/Ubuntu
users to install?
This would make dmd play nicer with automated provisioning
sytems like
On Wednesday, 6 August 2014 at 23:01:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
I'd submitted https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4130
which is related to issues with shared values assignment.
Did you mean https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13262 ?
On Thursday, 21 August 2014 at 17:55:19 UTC, Timothee Cour via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
http://dlang.org/cpptod.html#raii mentions scope class and
scope variables,
which seem deprecated (http://dlang.org/deprecate.html)
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/637
On Thursday, 21 August 2014 at 17:57:13 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Yes, I'm aware of ddmd. You've mentioned many times that it
only works because dmd is written using a very unC++-like
style, to the point where github's source analyzer claims that
dmd is written in 66.7% C, 28.4% D (presumably the
On Friday, 22 August 2014 at 17:54:36 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
A friend of mine stumbled across this today:
http://tomerfiliba.com/blog/dlang/
Rejoice! :-)
T
There's a fairly active conversation going on about this article
on Hacker News currently.
On Tuesday, 26 August 2014 at 20:55:26 UTC, Cliff wrote:
On Tuesday, 26 August 2014 at 20:27:55 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
On 08/26/2014 10:13 PM, Cliff wrote:
On Tuesday, 26 August 2014 at 19:47:25 UTC, Casper Færgemand
wrote:
How would this even work?
It looks like this applies only to the
On Tuesday, 26 August 2014 at 21:26:36 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
D has had immutable for years! Surely that counts as prior
art?? Does
the patent office accept prior art submissions?
T
They do.
http://meta.patents.stackexchange.com/a/107
On Tuesday, 26 August 2014 at 21:35:39 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
There has been some changes in the US since that article was
written:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_to_file_and_first_to_invent
Ali
True but First-to-file didn't take away Prior Art. In fact, the
America Invents Act
On Sunday, 5 October 2014 at 20:45:06 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
On Sunday, 5 October 2014 at 18:06:49 UTC, Etienne wrote:
Programmers cost money, it would be nice to have a D
Foundation where companies can donate and maybe eventually use
the funds to pay for professional staffing rather than
On Tuesday, 7 October 2014 at 19:24:34 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Thanks, Dmitri, this is great work. I suggest at a minimum that
all of those get notes added to their documentation that they
gc allocate.
Seems like that's something that should just be automated where
possible instead of
On Thursday, 9 October 2014 at 08:50:52 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
Kenji just proposed a slightly controversial pull request so I
want to reach out for more people to discuss it's tradeoffs.
It's about deprecating function qualifiers on the left hand
side of a function.
+1.
Prefixed const is
On Friday, 10 October 2014 at 17:31:23 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
On 10/10/14 1:09 PM, IgorStepanov wrote:
I've created DIP for my pull request.
DIP: http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP66
PR: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/3998
Please, comment it.
Hm... not sure you need a
On Friday, 10 October 2014 at 17:52:30 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
I think leaving this to a lint tool basically is as good and
effective as doing nothing. It's not a compromise at all.
I agree. The only people who run lint tools are established users
(because they are the only ones who
On Friday, 10 October 2014 at 21:10:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Const works differently in D than in C++, and this doesn't
change that. First off,
I think it's rather unfortunate that D used keywords from C++ for
things that work differently. const in particular but struct and
class cause
On Monday, 13 October 2014 at 09:32:58 UTC, Francesco Cattoglio
wrote:
On Monday, 13 October 2014 at 08:53:28 UTC, Peter Alexander
wrote:
Looks like Bjarne has proposed UFCS for C++
http://isocpp.org/files/papers/N4174.pdf
No mention of D though...
Seriously, not even a mention? Ok, I'm
On Thursday, 16 October 2014 at 19:46:42 UTC, Shucai wrote:
I am doing research on segmented stack mechanisms, and in
addition to academic papers, I am surveying whether segmented
stack mechanism is still useful on 64-bit machines. On 64 bit
machines, why they don’t just use a big enough
On Monday, 20 October 2014 at 21:05:33 UTC, Joakim wrote:
For 32-bit compilation, no, no additional download is
necessary. For 64-bit, you need the Microsoft COFF linker and
C runtime. The installer will try to automatically configure
dmd to use those if you have them already. Have you
On Tuesday, 21 October 2014 at 01:03:21 UTC, Xinok wrote:
* On the post-install screen, provide a few links here.
* Add start menu shortcuts to these things.
* Many installers open a webpage after installation is
complete. This could be an option on the post-install screen.
What do you all
On Tuesday, 21 October 2014 at 16:55:09 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
On Tuesday, 21 October 2014 at 12:40:57 UTC, w0rp wrote:
On Tuesday, 21 October 2014 at 12:22:54 UTC, edn wrote:
Could someone provide me with examples showing the usefulness
of pointers in the D language? They don't seem to be
On Friday, 24 October 2014 at 09:17:52 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
I think the column limit for word wrapping should be increased
to at least 80
The problem with that is that you'll get terrible line wrapping
of any quoted parts after the first reply. Newsreaders and email
clients wrap before 80
On Monday, 27 October 2014 at 20:37:26 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
One thing I just ran into while working on MultiScheduler is
that if a spawned thread is holding a lock when it yields, and
by yielding is picked up and executed by another thread, Bad
Things happen. In hindsight this sees obvious,
On Monday, 27 October 2014 at 20:56:04 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2014-10-27 18:18, Dicebot wrote:
I personally consider Deimos legacy with addition of dub and
would actively discourage anyone from using it or relying on
it.
I agree. I see no point in using it.
+1
A Deimos category
On Monday, 27 October 2014 at 21:43:47 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
On Monday, 27 October 2014 at 20:54:38 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
Just out of curiosity, what's the goal of MultiScheduler? Is
it intended to be an M:N scheduler?
Yep. Every logical thread is a Fiber executed in a round-robin
On Tuesday, 28 October 2014 at 22:44:32 UTC, Freddy wrote:
http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP67
Abstraction over the build-in associative array(one type of
range
for containers and another type for dynamic generators).
Plese criticize.
It's kind of a weird proposal to be honest. Ranges primitives are
On Wednesday, 29 October 2014 at 06:59:09 UTC, bearophile wrote:
This is very false. I have tons of cases where you only iterate
on values or keys. On the other hand I have suggested several
times that I'd like a byPairs (that yields keys-values tuple
pairs).
It happens to me too but it's
On Friday, 14 November 2014 at 22:16:42 UTC, IgorStepanov wrote:
Recently I encountered the following problem.
I need a simple stack of uint.
I want to push uints back and pop it. I don't want to copy this
stack and I want it to work fast.
Nick wrote an article about this very thing.
On Friday, 14 November 2014 at 21:52:04 UTC, David Nadlinger
wrote:
On Friday, 14 November 2014 at 06:10:43 UTC, Rikki Cattermole
wrote:
std.range.checks
For this, std.range.constraints would also be perfectly fine.
The point is that the module also contains the array-range
adapters that
On Friday, 28 November 2014 at 23:33:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
[snip]
I know there's been a lot of break my code advocacy lately,
but this code was only 2 years old.
I fully understand how unfriendly this is to users and how
discouraging it can be to have their recently working code
On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 17:10:12 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
DMD 2.066.1 is missing in the Digitalmars FTP. The release
candidates are present but the final release is missing. This
breaks DVM.
Why use the DigitalMars FTP?
http://downloads.dlang.org/ is the official place for them.
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