On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 07:57:58PM +, monarch_dodra via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
I have an issue related to adding an extra attribute: Attributes of
non-template functions. Currently, you have to mark most functions as
already pure, nothrow and @safe. If we are adding another attribute.
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 01:40:07PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 4/15/2014 1:37 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/15/2014 1:19 PM, monarch_dodra wrote:
On Tuesday, 15 April 2014 at 20:13:19 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/15/2014 1:10 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 01:58:32AM -0700, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On Monday, April 14, 2014 20:47:06 Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Another flurry of bounces floated through today (which I handled by
removing the suspensions, again). The only practical choice is a
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 03:16:20PM +, CJS via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Monday, 17 March 2014 at 21:25:34 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Jared Miller:
And yes, I think that a matrix / linear algebra library, as well as
NumPy-style ND-Arrays are great candidates for future Phobos
modules.
I
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 03:52:10PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 4/17/2014 3:18 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
During the entire processing, you never increment/decrement a
reference count, because the caller will have passed data to you with
an incremented count.
Just
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 05:34:34PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 4/17/2014 5:09 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
I thought that whole point of *A*RC is for the compiler to know when
ref count updates can be skipped? Or are you saying this is
algorithmically
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 06:21:10PM +0100, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
My changes to SCons to support gdc and ldc2 as well as dmd, and to
integrate D as a peer to C++ appear to have been merged into SCons
mainline/default.
Yay!
This means it is time to retire the SCons_D_Tooling
I'm going through some code and thinking of ways to reduce GC pressure,
and came across a bit that needed to append some items to an array:
T[] args;
lex.expect(();
args ~= parseSingleItem(lex);
while (!lex.empty) {
lex.expect(,);
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 06:09:11PM +, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Testing a 2.065 pre-release snapshot against GDC. I see that
std.algorithm now surpasses 2.1GBs of memory consumption when
compiling unittests. This is bringing my laptop down to its knees for
a painful 2/3
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 02:24:41PM -0400, Steven Schveighoffer via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 14:10:30 -0400, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d@puremagic.com wrote:
I'm going through some code and thinking of ways to reduce GC
pressure, and came across a bit
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 06:59:05PM +, monarch_dodra via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Tuesday, 22 April 2014 at 18:47:16 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
22-Apr-2014 22:10, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d пишет:
[...]
The question is, is there a way to take a slice of the static array,
set the length
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 04:28:30PM +, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
Gosh now I finally know what researches to blame for my eyes bleeding
upon most web site restylings (Facebook *caugh-caugh*). If anything it
just shows that overall reading skills are decreasing and no one care
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 05:32:00PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On 4/23/2014 2:12 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/23/2014 10:02 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On the contrary, I find almost all websites have broken layouts
because I enforce a minimal font size
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 06:08:52PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
[...]
But I have noticed a lot of the sites that use anchor links to switch
to completely different pages are basically broken. Since the very
*beginning* of HTML, links have always been downright trivial to
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 04:58:06AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On 4/23/2014 6:19 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
Usually when I run into a site with (1) microscopic fonts, (2) giant
(often multicolored) fonts, (3) no whitespace, or (4) has more
ads/filler
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 03:59:17PM +, via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Thursday, 24 April 2014 at 15:55:36 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
Am 24.04.2014 17:34, schrieb Ola Fosheim Grøstad
ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com:
According to the CCS 2.1 standard 1 px == 0.75pt.
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 08:21:04PM +0100, Alix Pexton via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 24/04/2014 9:44 AM, Dicebot wrote:
Considering the very same size 9 fonts are used as default everywhere
else in my desktop system and it feels just fine.. yeah, you must be
right. It must be small font and not
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 01:54:29AM +, bearophile via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Walter Bright:
I've recently seen some academic research PDF's where the font is so
small that even if I go full screen on them they are very hard to
read.
Some combinations of PDF readers and PDF files support
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:46:16PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On 4/24/2014 9:54 PM, bearophile wrote:
Walter Bright:
I don't get the reason for doing this. Are they trying to save paper
or something?
They are often trying to save paper. Some conferences (and sometimes
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 12:24:47AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On 4/25/2014 12:00 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
OTOH, I believe journals nowadays actually give you a LaTeX template
that you're supposed to follow, and they greatly frown upon
submissions
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 04:32:29PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Since the namespace keyword doesn't seem to be gaining much traction,
an alternative syntax would be:
extern (C++, N.M) { void foo(); }
which would be semantically equivalent to the previous:
extern
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:55:11AM -0400, Etienne via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 2014-04-29 11:27 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
I recently started a Ruby on Rails job and using it makes me really,
really miss the high productivity and ease of use D offers. (And, of
course, a dynamic site in D runs
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 02:25:05PM +, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 14:18:37 UTC, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
When I have a bug in my code I usually add a test for it so it never
happens again.
Because it's a bug, I might need to debug it. So I add a couple
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 08:43:31AM -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
[...]
Last but not least, virtually nobody I know runs unittests and then
main. This is quickly becoming an idiom:
version(unittest) void main() {}
else void main()
{
...
}
I think it's time to
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 04:57:12PM +, Meta via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 16:55:06 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Walter and I also discussed static unittest a while ago - yes,
another use of static :o).
Yeah I think 'static' is getting a little too overloaded in
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 02:13:32PM -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On 4/30/14, 2:09 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
On 04/30/2014 10:58 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 4/30/14, 1:56 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
struct S{
~this(){ /* ... */ }
/* ... */
}
class C{
S
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 02:48:38PM -0700, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 21:09:14 +0100
Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d@puremagic.com wrote:
[...]
In which case D is wrong to allow them in the unittest blocks and
should introduce a new way of
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 02:25:22PM -0700, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
[...]
Sure, that helps, but it's trivial to write a unittest block which
depends on a previous unittest block, and as soon as a unittest block
uses an external resource such as a socket or file, then even if a
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 02:30:05PM -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On 4/30/14, 2:15 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 02:13:32PM -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 4/30/14, 2:09 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
On 04/30/2014 10:58
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 03:55:38PM -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On 4/30/14, 3:47 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
I don't like the sound of that. I haven't found myself in a place
where I needed to do something like this, but if I had to, I'd be
very
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 06:30:16PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 4/30/2014 4:17 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
If we're going
to have dtors at all, let's do it *right*. Guarantee they always work,
and reject all usages that break this guarantee (like putting
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 10:06:17AM +, monarch_dodra via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 23:19:18 UTC, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 03:55:38PM -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 4/30/14, 3:47 PM, H. S. Teoh via
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 04:33:23PM -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On 4/30/14, 4:17 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
and they stop working as one might expect. Wasn't this whole fiasco
the whole reason std.stdio.ByLine was recently rewritten to use ref
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 01:37:28AM -0700, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:21:33 -0700
Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d@puremagic.com
wrote:
[...]
First off, we're considering eliminating destructor calls from
within the GC entirely. It
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 01:03:06PM -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On 5/1/14, 12:52 PM, Nordlöw wrote:
into a class. I'm inclined to say that we should outright prohibit that,
That can't happen.
Why is that?
(1) Too much breakage, (2) would disallow a ton of correct
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 02:19:17PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 5/1/2014 7:01 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
The proposal was to get rid of class dtors, in which case this code will
no longer work. Is that really the direction we want to move in?
My point
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 02:29:22PM -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On 5/1/14, 1:19 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 01:03:06PM -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 5/1/14, 12:52 PM, Nordlöw wrote:
into a class. I'm
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 03:10:04PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 5/1/2014 3:02 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
I'm confused. Andrei's original proposal was to deprecate class
dtors, with the view to eventually getting rid of them altogether. If
indeed that's going
I was reading this article of Walter's:
http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/the-x-macro/228700289
Which is a neat trick that I wish I'd known back when I was writing
C/C++. But the thought crossed my mind: what's the D equivalent of the X
macro, since D doesn't have macros? Any ideas?
T
--
On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 09:03:15PM +, monarch_dodra via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Friday, 2 May 2014 at 15:06:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
So now it looks like dynamic arrays also can't contain structs with
destructors :o). -- Andrei
Well, that's always been the case, and even worst,
On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 11:44:47PM +0200, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On Fri, 02 May 2014 21:03:15 +
monarch_dodra via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d@puremagic.com wrote:
On Friday, 2 May 2014 at 15:06:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
So now it looks like dynamic arrays
On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 11:12:36AM -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
[...]
Anyhow, just to clarify, it seems like eliminating destructor calls
during GC is not a viable option. I'll define std.allocator to allow
users to define such a GC if they so want, without prescribing
On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 10:48:47PM -0500, Caligo via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
Last but not least, currently there are two main ways for new features
to make it into D/Phobos: you either have to belong to the inner
circle, or have to represent some corporation that's doing something
with D.
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 06:16:34AM +, Arlen via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Sunday, 4 May 2014 at 22:56:41 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 10:48:47PM -0500, Caligo via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
Last but not least, currently there are two main ways for new
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 03:55:12PM +, bearophile via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu:
I think the needs to support BigInt argument is not a blocker - we
can release std.rational to only support built-in integers, and then
adjust things later to expand support while keeping
On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 12:28:19AM +, bearophile via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu:
So I'm looking at creation functions and in particular creation
functions for arrays.
1. Follow the new int[n] convention:
auto a = allok.make!(int[])(42);
assert(a.length == 42);
On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 07:19:06AM -0700, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
Ever since the mailing list software was changed to say sender via
Digitalmars-d, a number of the messages have been from via
Digitalmars-d - they're missing the actual sender. And for many of
them, the person
On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 04:55:25PM +0200, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On 07/05/14 16:05, Dicebot wrote:
Have never liked that fancy description syntax of smart testing
frameworks.
I hate plain unit test blocks with just a bunch of asserts. It's
impossible to know that's being
On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 08:09:34PM +, w0rp via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Wednesday, 7 May 2014 at 14:49:17 UTC, Orvid King via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On 5/7/14, w0rp via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d@puremagic.com wrote:
void foo(InputRange range);
How to make it accept multiple types?
On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 11:05:19AM +, monarch_dodra via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Thursday, 8 May 2014 at 07:09:24 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
Just a general note: This is not only interesting for range/slice
types, but for any user defined reference type (e.g. RefCounted!T or
Isolated!T).
On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 10:46:12AM -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
A discussion is building around
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2149, which is a
nice initiative by Walter to allow Phobos users to avoid or control
memory allocation.
First
On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 11:27:54AM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 5/8/2014 10:46 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
A discussion is building around
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2149, which is a nice
initiative by Walter to allow Phobos users to avoid or
On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 02:38:18PM -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On 5/8/14, 1:41 PM, Luís Marques l...@luismarques.eu wrote:
On Thursday, 8 May 2014 at 18:21:32 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
I've thought about input ranges vs. output ranges for a bit. I
On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 02:54:32PM -0700, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 02:38:18PM -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 5/8/14, 1:41 PM, Luís Marques l...@luismarques.eu wrote:
[...]
I agree with H. S. Teoh. Indeed, I was thinking of trying
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 09:16:54PM +0200, Xavier Bigand via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
My concerns as Dlang user are :
- Even if GC is the solution, how long I need suffer with
destructor's issues (calls order)?
Dtor calling order and GC are fundamentally incompatible. I don't think
this
The latest git HEAD druntime has broken existing code:
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12738
:-(
I'm no longer so sure it's a *regression*, strictly speaking, but it is
definitely a breakage that's going to cause users pain. I.e., it better
be in large bold print in the
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 09:58:09AM -0700, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On Tue, 13 May 2014 18:38:44 +0200
Benjamin Thaut via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d@puremagic.com wrote:
I know that there was a recent discussion about how the methods of
ranges should behave.
E.g.
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 01:29:32PM -0400, Steven Schveighoffer via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
I don't agree there was a consensus. I think empty should not have to
be called if it's already logically known that the range is not empty.
I only partially agree with this, up to the point where
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 01:02:26PM +, Van de Bugger via Digitalmars-d wrote:
I found a bug in Phobos library, but failed to find a way to report
it. I do not see Issues tab on page
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos, so I'll report the
bug here.
Please report bugs to:
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 03:22:25PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 5/15/2014 2:41 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
On 05/15/2014 11:33 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/15/2014 9:07 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
Why? A memoizable function is still memoizable if it is changed
internally to memoize
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 03:20:33PM +, Chris via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
Yep. Look at the open source communities, all the forks and fights.
There used to be Tango vs Phobos. On the other hand, it's good that
people can just do their own thing, if they're not happy with an
existing
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 02:52:43PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On 5/16/2014 2:21 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
The ideas behind the browser are great, when looked from the Xerox
PARC hypermedia research, the implementation however leaves a lot to
be desired.
The problem is
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 11:57:36AM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 5/16/2014 10:33 AM, Dicebot wrote:
On Friday, 16 May 2014 at 17:22:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/16/2014 9:43 AM, Dicebot wrote:
Transitive borrowing solves certain class of issues that currently
rely on
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:15:40PM -0700, David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 5/16/14, 11:52 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
But then using it as a GUI engine and software platform is like
abusing Latex or PDF to make software run inside Acrobat Viewer. All
the effort, bloat and
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 11:51:44AM -0700, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On Thu, 15 May 2014 08:43:11 -0700
Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d@puremagic.com
wrote:
On 5/15/14, 6:28 AM, Dicebot wrote:
This is not true. Because of such code you can't ever
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:35:18AM +, w0rp via Digitalmars-d wrote:
I wonder what effect this has on PageRank. I have been told that
Google can identify a site as an originator of content some times, and
could reduce the rank of another site based on that, something like
that. Then again,
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 02:30:56PM +, Chris via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Friday, 23 May 2014 at 14:12:38 UTC, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
I've always been skeptical of SEO. Google is known to implement
changes to their ranking algorithm specifically to counter
artificially
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 06:05:49PM -0700, Steven Schveighoffer via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Sat, 24 May 2014 02:54:01 -0700, FG h...@fgda.pl wrote:
[...]
Really? Then what does TypeInfo.compare(void*, void*) use? For
example here:
auto key_hash = keyti.getHash(pkey); Entry *e;
/*
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 11:54:47PM -0700, Steven Schveighoffer via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Sat, 24 May 2014 21:39:14 -0700, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d@puremagic.com wrote:
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 06:05:49PM -0700, Steven Schveighoffer via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Sat, 24 May
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 08:17:26AM -1000, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On 5/27/14, 7:51 AM, Meta wrote:
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 17:22:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
I think there was either or both a discussion and a bug report on
this, but can't find either. Basically
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 08:46:25AM -0400, Steven Schveighoffer via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Thu, 29 May 2014 02:30:05 -0400, Vladimir Panteleev
vladi...@thecybershadow.net wrote:
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 22:48:22 UTC, Jonathan M Davis via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
Please configure your
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:47:26AM -0400, Steven Schveighoffer via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
javax was the experimental branch for Java's experimental code. Now
javax.xml is PERMANENT.
I think experimental spells out This is subject to immediate and
frequent change. IT MAY BREAK YOUR CODE
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 01:13:39PM -0300, Ary Borenszweig via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On 5/29/14, 12:22 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
One subject that frequented the talks at dconf was the poor
performance of CTFE and mixins.
The major issue as I understand it (maybe I'm wrong) is the vast
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 12:03:43PM -0400, Steven Schveighoffer via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Thu, 29 May 2014 11:12:00 -0400, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d@puremagic.com wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:47:26AM -0400, Steven Schveighoffer via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
I think
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:53:22AM -0500, Tom Browder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Has anyone done a survey of the primary OS of D users?
I (a D newbie) use Debian Linux (64-bit), but I get the feeling that
many (if not most) users are on some version of Windows.
[...]
I also use Debian Linux
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 03:24:13PM -0500, Tom Browder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Tom Browder tom.brow...@gmail.com wrote:
Has anyone done a survey of the primary OS of D users?
I (a D newbie) use Debian Linux (64-bit), but I get the feeling that
many (if
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 02:37:28PM +, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Friday, 30 May 2014 at 14:07:23 UTC, Chris wrote:
Do you have a link to Walter's article? Thanks.
I remember reading it on Dr. Dobbs but don't see it right now in
Walters article list :(
Is it this one?
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 03:25:59PM +, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Friday, 30 May 2014 at 15:09:00 UTC, Chris wrote:
Plus, if there's a bug, you're stuck. I like to re-invent the wheel
too, because existing wheels might not be fit for your purpose.
That's why I swore off
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 12:06:34PM -0400, Steven Schveighoffer via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
By saying up front this is experimental, expect breakage, the policy
is clear, and complaints are shrugged off, nobody has anyone to blame
but themselves.
You may argue Yeah, but javax was supposed
On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 08:37:30PM +, Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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
On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 04:23:47PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On 6/2/2014 3:49 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:45:28 -0400, Paulo Pinto pj...@progtools.org
wrote:
More information now made available
https://developer.apple.com/swift/
Memory
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12846
Since when is x.hours, x.minutes, etc., deprecated? Well, in any case,
looks like std.datetime needs to be fixed.
--T
On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 01:05:24PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On 6/3/2014 5:03 AM, Chris wrote:
After all it was created by God, er, Apple. (Mind you, it was
because of an apple that God evicted humans from paradaise :-)
Heh heh :) Why has that never occurred to me
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 02:27:10PM +0100, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 4 June 2014 13:21, Temtaime via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d@puremagic.com wrote:
The main problem is that ldc is outdated because there is no support
from community.
Likewise. All I see is everyone
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 03:53:59PM +0100, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
Not even remotely true. DMD isn't easy to set-up either.
1) There's no documentation on build dependencies/prerequesites (that
I have come across)
http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_DMD
2) While there's no
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 04:23:31PM +0100, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 4 June 2014 16:07, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d@puremagic.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 03:53:59PM +0100, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
[...]
Not even remotely true. DMD isn't
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 09:30:32AM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 6/3/2014 11:38 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
I can't have music on at work
I understand that. But can you have it on at a barely perceptible
volume at your desk? That's usually enough for me.
I find that music
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 01:57:13PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On 6/4/2014 7:59 AM, Dejan Lekic wrote:
I humbly believe programmer who does not spend spare time reading
literature related to his/her work is most likely going to lose the
job at some point, as people who
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 11:51:04AM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 6/4/2014 11:36 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 09:30:32AM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On 6/3/2014 11:38 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
I can't have music
On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 11:49:38AM +0200, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On 2014-06-04 21:02, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
It's strange, I find that even ambient music distracts me, yet the
loud noise of an occasional passing train doesn't. Similarly, even
whispers
On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 01:23:47AM -0700, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
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On Wed, 04 Jun 2014 09:12:06 +0200
Sönke Ludwig via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d@puremagic.com wrote:
Just a minor note: What about just .only!minutes, analogous
.total!minutes? Removing both the .minutes
On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 10:07:59AM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 6/5/2014 2:49 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2014-06-04 21:02, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
It's strange, I find that even ambient music distracts me, yet the
loud noise of an occasional passing train
On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 06:01:32PM +, Jeremy DeHaan via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Hey all,
I've been using D for a while now and I would very much like to contribute
to the development of the language. Here's the problem: I know next to
nothing about compilers or anything related to language
On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 01:24:20PM +, Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
A typical scenario is when (top-level) manager (M) want thing
yesterday, and tell senior engineer (SE)
M: How long will it take?
SE: Well, we did not even analyse the requirements for this feature.
Let's
On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 05:14:34PM +0200, Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 06/06/2014 04:37 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Yeah that sounds very familiar. A typical situation at my job goes
something like this:
Customer: I want feature X!
Sales rep: OK, we'll implement X in 1
On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 02:01:38PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On 6/6/2014 1:06 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 05:14:34PM +0200, Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Isn't the fundamental problem here that the customer will pay a
billion
On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 07:49:47PM +, deadalnix via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 19:37:47 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
Techie A: Hey dude, this morning I got this crazy kewl idea on how to
make our spreadsheet app play a flight simulator!
Techie B
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 01:11:12PM -0400, Steven Schveighoffer via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Thu, 12 Jun 2014 11:00:11 -0400, Manu via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d@puremagic.com wrote:
I often find myself wanting to write this:
foreach(; 0..n) {}
In the case that I just want to do something
I'm not sure if this is a bug, or an anti-pattern, or what, but I ran
into this issue yesterday:
class Base {
int propImpl;
final @property int prop() { return propImpl; }
@property void prop(int newVal) { propImpl = newVal; }
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:54:44PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On 6/13/2014 5:15 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
I'd honestly rather see for(;;) {} removed than have foreach(; 0..n)
{} added. I don't like special cases like like these.
Disallowing
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