Re: How are you enjoying DConf? And where to go next?

2016-05-10 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 9 May 2016 at 20:08:03 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: On 9 May 2016 at 17:32, wobbles via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Monday, 9 May 2016 at 15:12:25 UTC, krzaq wrote: [...] I also think it should not only be in a decently cheap location, but also in a location

IMAP library

2016-02-17 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
hello everyone i have checked code.dlang.org and github but i have not encountered an IMAP library. there's an application at work that i want to convert to D and IMAP is an essential part as i read emails and download the attachments. so i thought let's give it a shot and create the library

Re: Wannabe contributor frustrations

2016-02-11 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 05:02:40 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 04:37:39 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: And building the documentation is that much worse. I'm fixing that at least! My docs: http://dpldocs.info/experimental-docs/std.stdio.html are built

Re: Proposal: Database Engine for D

2016-02-08 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 6 February 2016 at 13:41:03 UTC, Piotrek wrote: On Saturday, 6 February 2016 at 00:14:08 UTC, Mengu wrote: and while we were talking the talk, rust community rolled out something good called diesel. check it out at http://diesel.rs/. we need tools that get things done. we do not

Re: in a template argument, specify which object member to access?

2016-02-08 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 8 February 2016 at 21:09:47 UTC, cy wrote: object.member lets me access the member of the object, but what if I want to access those members in a generic way, but in a different arrangement depending on context? Like if I wanted to first follow a tree down, and second priority would

Re: in a template argument, specify which object member to access?

2016-02-08 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 8 February 2016 at 22:46:06 UTC, cy wrote: On Monday, 8 February 2016 at 22:38:45 UTC, Mengu wrote: i believe you can use __traits(getMember) there. Great! Should have refreshed before sending that reply... I wonder if mixin("a."~member) is better or worse than

Re: Proposal: Database Engine for D

2016-02-05 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 5 January 2016 at 22:12:05 UTC, Mengu wrote: On Tuesday, 5 January 2016 at 08:26:16 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: [...] i love how things can become so complex in this community. i am a web developer so i am going to talk in terms of simplicity. as russel said, with SQLAlchemy

Re: Pre-alpha D language online tour

2016-01-28 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 26 January 2016 at 18:45:55 UTC, André wrote: On Tuesday, 26 January 2016 at 14:25:33 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote: let's put it on github and let everyone contribute and make things easier for you. :) It is on Github (see post #1) On a related note: because it's on GitHub it's

Re: Pre-alpha D language online tour

2016-01-26 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 26 January 2016 at 10:30:17 UTC, André wrote: On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 21:53:26 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: [...] Thank you very much for going through the content! I integrated your comments and they will be online very soon. I added a paragraph for __gshared in the

Re: forum.dlang.org is now available via HTTPS

2016-01-22 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 18:36:12 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: It took a while but I finally got around to adapting a Let's Encrypt ACME client to my hosting system with automatic renewals etc. Enjoy! https://forum.dlang.org/ Adam, your turn! on Mac OS X El Capitan Chrome Version

Re: Proposal: Database Engine for D

2016-01-05 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 5 January 2016 at 08:26:16 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2016-01-05 05:16, Chris Wright wrote: Not proposing language changes was an intentional feature, not a mistake. Then you obviously can't use the operators. You would have to fall back to methods: Person.where!(e =>

Re: I hate new DUB config format

2015-11-25 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 25 November 2015 at 11:54:00 UTC, Suliman wrote: I find the SDLang format much cleaner to use than JSON But it's dead format! Nobody do not use it. JSON easy to read, there is a lot of it's checkers and formating tools. Yes, it's not perfect, but now it's _standard_. Personally

Re: Here's looking at you, kid

2015-11-20 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 20 November 2015 at 08:51:13 UTC, Warwick wrote: On Friday, 20 November 2015 at 01:28:00 UTC, rsw0x wrote: On Friday, 20 November 2015 at 00:47:17 UTC, Warwick wrote: [...] Ali's book is not a tutorial or aimed at absolute beginners, it's /the/ material for learning D and in my

Re: DConf keynote speaker ideas

2015-11-19 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 18 November 2015 at 16:04:11 UTC, Pederator wrote: On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 18:47:58 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I'm thinking of inviting a notable industry luminary to deliver a conference keynote. Please reply to this with ideas! -- Andrei Russel Winder +1 for

Re: IRC dead?

2015-11-19 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 19 November 2015 at 14:55:19 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Wednesday, 18 November 2015 at 23:24:14 UTC, Chris Wright wrote: #ubuntu, for comparison, is so outrageously active that you can log in and see a new message every few seconds. Wow. That seems like it would be too

Re: Please vote for the DConf logo

2015-11-04 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 4 November 2015 at 09:32:05 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 04/11/15 10:30 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Reply to this with 1.1, 1.2, 2, or 3: 1) by ponce: Variant 1: https://github.com/p0nce/dconf.org/blob/master/2016/images/logo-sample.png Variant 2:

Re: on std.net.curl high level functions

2015-10-26 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 26 October 2015 at 10:47:20 UTC, tired_eyes wrote: On Sunday, 25 October 2015 at 00:14:38 UTC, Mengu wrote: hi all what do you think about high level functions such as get, post, put, delete returning a Request object with status code, headers and content as its properties rather

on std.net.curl high level functions

2015-10-24 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
hi all what do you think about high level functions such as get, post, put, delete returning a Request object with status code, headers and content as its properties rather than just the content? this would make things easier for n00bs and newcomers to D as everyone would not have to create

Re: Will code for master title

2015-10-19 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 October 2015 at 19:20:15 UTC, ParticlePeter wrote: Hello Community, I am a master student of Computational Visualistics / Computer Science shortly before starting my master thesis. This means I could (and also would love to) spend about five month exclusively working on and

Re: The D Language Foundation is now incorporated

2015-10-19 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 19 October 2015 at 14:54:34 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 10/19/2015 10:49 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2015-10-19 13:18, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Has anyone tried GitLab (was Gitorious)? Yes, we're using at work. It's what you use if you don't want to

Re: OT: why do people use python when it is slow?

2015-10-18 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 18 October 2015 at 13:29:50 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Sunday, 18 October 2015 at 12:50:43 UTC, Namespace wrote: On Tuesday, 13 October 2015 at 23:26:14 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Python-so-popular-despite-being-so-slow Andrei suggested posting

Re: OT: why do people use python when it is slow?

2015-10-14 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 14 October 2015 at 05:42:12 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Tuesday, 13 October 2015 at 23:26:14 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Python-so-popular-despite-being-so-slow Andrei suggested posting more widely. That's flaimbait: «Many really popular

Re: D and microservices

2015-10-07 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 6 October 2015 at 23:01:43 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: On Tuesday, 6 October 2015 at 19:31:20 UTC, Mengu wrote: a half of it is the buzz and other half of is not. remember people talking about reactjs, go and rails being buzz? they were the same. we have built an online payment

Re: D and microservices

2015-10-06 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 6 October 2015 at 19:07:32 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 10/06/2015 01:54 PM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 16:21 +, Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Tuesday, 6 October 2015 at 16:12:12 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: Has anyone got a small

Re: Walter and I talk about D in Romania

2015-10-03 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 2 October 2015 at 11:25:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Walter and I will travel to Brasov, Romania to hold an evening-long event on the D language. There's been strong interest in the event with over 300 registrants so far. http://curiousminds.ro Scott Meyers will guest star

Re: OT: interesting talk by Jane Street technical guy on why they used Ocaml

2015-10-03 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 3 October 2015 at 01:41:55 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKcOkWzj0_s a little old but still relevant. talks about importance of brevity and strong types for readability (also avoiding boilerplate). two of the partners there committed to read every

Re: OT: interesting talk by Jane Street technical guy on why they used Ocaml

2015-10-03 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 3 October 2015 at 16:33:38 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: On Saturday, 3 October 2015 at 15:58:38 UTC, Mengu wrote: On Saturday, 3 October 2015 at 01:41:55 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKcOkWzj0_s a little old but still relevant. talks about importance of

Re: Moving back to .NET

2015-09-30 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 30 September 2015 at 15:45:02 UTC, learn wrote: working as advertised libucrtd.lib is still sought and not found after another new release. you guys should get your shit together, otherwise more people that try D will "Moving back to .NET" and not tell you about it. well i

Re: Stroustrup is disappointed with D :(

2015-09-23 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 22 September 2015 at 19:52:48 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Tuesday, 22 September 2015 at 19:38:35 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: C++'s approach is better from the point of view of corretness. However, it is slower because the object's vtbl pointer must be stamped several times

Re: DConf 2015 has ended. See you in Berlin at DConf 2016!

2015-05-30 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 29 May 2015 at 23:42:00 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: DConf 2015 has been awesome, I'm taking a minute to post this that's been announced a short while ago. We're pleased to announce that DConf 2016 will take place in Berlin, sponsored by Sociomantic. We'll be back with

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-13 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 05:05:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/12/15 3:57 PM, Max Klyga wrote: On 2015-05-12 20:02:05 +, Brian Schott said: On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 18:35:10 UTC, FujiBar wrote: But there are no vacancies... There's at least one:

Re: a success story for D ! !!

2015-05-06 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 5 May 2015 at 12:04:39 UTC, Alex Ogheri wrote: Hi guys, did you know this ?? http://vlang.org/ In fact, it gathered quite an enthusiastic appreciation at dvcon in Munich!! some of you might know it, some of you might not but bernard helyer of our own, also created a language

Re: SDC needs you -- redux

2015-04-18 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 18 April 2015 at 21:21:42 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 4/18/15 10:21 AM, Shammah Chancellor wrote: The tooling for golang is a major reason for it's adoption. This tooling looks like gofix, gofmt, govet, etc. We need this tooling to be able to succeed. Agreed (as with

[OT] PyCon talk on Rust Python

2015-04-15 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
i was watching an interesting PyCon talk on Rust Python and I wanted to share it here since i know there are people using PyD. you can watch the talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CwJ0MH-4MA. it looks really nice and easy.

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-26 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 26 March 2015 at 16:13:11 UTC, Jack Death wrote: On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 21:13:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/25/15 1:32 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/25/15 12:39 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/24/15 10:07 AM, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D

Re: Novel list

2015-03-25 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 15:53:34 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: Ugh, I haven't looked too closely at this, but they apparently also ignore those that are undecided? Meaning that numbers like 90% meant X actually could be 9% meant X and 90% are undecided. Looks like entertainment.

Re: From the cycle Topic of the day - .gitignore: how big is too big?

2015-03-23 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
bOn Sunday, 22 March 2015 at 21:08:27 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/22/15 1:37 PM, Mengu wrote: while we're at it, let's add D to this list: https://github.com/github/gitignore That's be cool, any takers? -- Andrei btw, i think it'd be good if dub would automatically include this

Re: From the cycle Topic of the day - .gitignore: how big is too big?

2015-03-22 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 22 March 2015 at 19:32:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/22/15 12:27 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Sunday, 22 March 2015 at 16:08:38 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/22/15 3:17 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: I thought moving things around was also one of your pet peeves

Re: A reason to choose D over Go

2015-03-22 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 21 March 2015 at 22:16:10 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: This blog post describes what to consider when switching from python to go. http://blog.repustate.com/migrating-code-from-python-to-golang-what-you-need-to-know/#tips It's very interesting, because the long list of things to give

Re: From the cycle Topic of the day - .gitignore: how big is too big?

2015-03-22 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 22 March 2015 at 22:04:53 UTC, Mathias Lang wrote: I was wondering how this could be done this afternoon. Thanks Mengu. https://github.com/github/gitignore/pull/1444 2015-03-22 22:08 GMT+01:00 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d@puremagic.com: On 3/22/15 1:37

Re: A few notes on choosing between Go and D for a quick project

2015-03-15 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 13 March 2015 at 02:00:08 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Friday, 13 March 2015 at 00:20:40 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I'd love us to derive a few action items from this and other feedback. I think the front page focuses too much on the language itself at the moment.

broken std.md5 link on phobos page

2015-03-14 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
the std.md5 link on phobos index page [0] is broken. i did fork phobos, did a grep but could not find the link to the lib so could not send a PR. [0] http://dlang.org/phobos/

Re: broken std.md5 link on phobos page

2015-03-14 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 14 March 2015 at 22:52:28 UTC, Mengu wrote: the std.md5 link on phobos index page [0] is broken. i did fork phobos, did a grep but could not find the link to the lib so could not send a PR. [0] http://dlang.org/phobos/ and i think that's because there's no more an std.md5 lib

Re: GtkD 3.0-beta

2015-03-10 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 7 March 2015 at 21:14:36 UTC, Mike Wey wrote: I'm glad to announce the first GtkD release that makes use of the new gir based generator. The generator was rebuild from the ground up since the old one was no longer usable with the new GTK+ documentation. For a list of changes see

Re: Are there any 2D games libraries available for D2?

2015-02-20 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 20 February 2015 at 07:43:42 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Thu, 2015-02-19 at 23:32 +, Kingsley via Digitalmars-d wrote: Hi I'm looking for a 2D games library in D2 similar to gosu from ruby: http://www.libgosu.org/or ray: https://github.com/Mon-Ouie/ray I got totally

Re: let (x,y) = ...

2015-02-19 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 19 February 2015 at 04:38:32 UTC, thedeemon wrote: Creating tuples and returning them from functions is trivial in D: auto getTuple() { return tuple(Bob, 42); } but using them afterwards can be confusing and error prone auto t = getTuple(); writeln(name is , t[0], age is ,

Re: Your 02.14

2015-02-14 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 14 February 2015 at 14:39:34 UTC, FrankLike wrote: 2015-2-14,I build a small program for wife: module for214; import std.stdio; import std.random; extern(C) int setlocale(int, char*); static this() { import core.stdc.wchar_; fwide(core.stdc.stdio.stdout, 1);

Re: Inconsistent coding style in code examples

2015-02-13 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 10 February 2015 at 21:00:11 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: This PR: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2973 introduces a code example with 2-space indentation, whereas the rest of Phobos and dlang.org uses 4-space indentation. I don't like this. It's

Re: DConf 2015 early bird registration just opened

2015-01-26 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 January 2015 at 04:45:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://dconf.org/2015/registration.html https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/559934412335218688 You know the program will be great. Only $250 gets you there! Andrei well, it's $800 flight (from istanbul to utah),

Re: dlang.org redesign n+2 (the one with the bold red vertical menu)

2015-01-24 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 24 January 2015 at 02:43:47 UTC, anonymous wrote: Inspired by the recent developments, and Sebastiaan Koppe's version [1] specifically, I gave it a go, too: http://ag0aep6g-dlang.rhcloud.com/ It's not as radical as other approaches. I didn't start from scratch, but tried to

Re: I'll be presenting at NWCPP on Jan 21 at Microsoft

2015-01-24 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 24 January 2015 at 04:06:07 UTC, Leandro Lucarella wrote: , el 23 de January a las 16:19 me escribiste: On Thursday, 22 January 2015 at 17:21:42 UTC, Meta wrote: I'm also interested in how the presentation went. Rust ppl too:

Re: dlang.org redesign -- general thoughts and issues [part 1]

2015-01-23 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 23 January 2015 at 10:31:45 UTC, aldanor wrote: Hi all, I've started redesigning dlang.org AGAIN (yea, I know...). The front page is mostly done aside from a several responsiveness and platform quirks, I will have the full landing page + a random sample page from the docs this

Re: dlang.org redesign n+1

2015-01-22 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 22 January 2015 at 10:32:19 UTC, Chris wrote: Why not think outside the box a little? Design trends change every 3-5 years. I'm sure that users and web designers are already getting sick and tired of the tablet-friendly layout we see everywhere and are thinking of ways to improve

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 16:50:10 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 16:46:41 UTC, MattCoder wrote: Hey Mengu you could share those icons from his demonstration (Calendar, statistic): http://i.imgur.com/VRmCwCT.png And other potential headers too. I could have cut

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
hello all yesterday i took the liberty of asking a dear designer friend of mine to help us have a better newsletter. luckily, he was able to put some design together for it. please see it at http://bit.ly/1DTLuPS and let us know what you guys think. let's have some elegance with rock solid

Re: Heady House Hunting with D

2015-01-18 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 17 January 2015 at 21:41:15 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/17/15 12:18 PM, Meta wrote: On Wednesday, 14 January 2015 at 03:46:39 UTC, Philpax wrote: Hey everyone, I recently wrote a blog post about how I used D/vibe.d to help find a new house. I haven't publicized it

Re: Please help me with improving dlang.org

2015-01-18 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 17:05:28 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/18/15 9:02 AM, aldanor wrote: This is usually solved by media queries / responsive design / grid frameworks, sorry if I'm stating the obvious :) Try resizing the commonly used websites and see what happens, e.g. for

Re: Thanks to p0nce for a nicer DConf logo!

2015-01-18 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 19:45:10 UTC, ponce wrote: On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 19:39:38 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Take a look: http://dconf.org/2015/index.html. PR: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dconf.org/pull/37. -- Andrei :) By the way I finds DDoc suprinsingly

Re: css minification

2015-01-17 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
don't know if it's already said but if you are using nginx, there's a plugin for minification and builtin support for compressing html pages or static assets. therefore, nobody needs a third-party dependency for building the docs.

typescript plugin for vibe.d diet templates

2015-01-17 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-announce
a friend of mine liked d so much -you know, after i show off all the kewl features :)- he just built a typescript plugin for vibe.d diet templates. it's a fork of martin's coffeescript plugin. https://github.com/f/diet-typescript for the uninformed, typescript is a typed superset of

Re: What is the D plan's to become a used language?

2015-01-15 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 15 January 2015 at 16:53:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/15/15 1:42 AM, weaselcat wrote: On Thursday, 15 January 2015 at 07:58:47 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/14/15 7:19 PM, brian wrote: My point was that there are fewer examples of *how* to do things in D. This

Re: Utah Valley University is a sponsor of DConf 2015

2015-01-11 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 10 January 2015 at 06:37:37 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 01/09/2015 03:33 PM, MattCoder wrote: a good excuse to take my visa!). :D I encourage everyone to apply for visa as soon as possible. US visa process can be frustratingly delayed depending on many unknown factors. Ali

Re: endsWith - for a string vs an array of strings

2015-01-11 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 10 January 2015 at 23:32:47 UTC, bearophile wrote: Laeeth Isharc: In D there is a feature that allows a function to accept both an array of items and items, yes - it is funny there is not an overloading that accepts arrays I meant this D feature: void foo(T)(T[] items...) {

Re: NaCl/Emscripten

2015-01-09 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 9 January 2015 at 12:46:41 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2015-01-09 10:28, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote: I'm looking at another potential opportunity to get D into the office, but the target's for this particular project are NaCL and/or Emscripten. I was gonna start hacking around

Re: idiomatic D: what to use instead of pointers in constructing a tree data structure?

2015-01-08 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 8 January 2015 at 11:29:30 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: this conversation is so funny: well what's wrong with this . It's a keyword... Aa Ha ha ha ha , rol. Seriously, is it so complicated to use a D editor ? I mean with syntax color... Man afraid to ask stoopid questions stays

Re: DConf 2015 Call for Submissions is now open

2015-01-06 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 7 January 2015 at 00:21:55 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Reddit downvotes seem to be the most arbitrary things on the Internet. I don't understand them at all. it had 32 upvotes when i just visited the link. i upvoted and now it has 29 votes. is it crazy to think that there are

Re: D and Nim

2015-01-04 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 4 January 2015 at 18:10:52 UTC, Jonathan wrote: Hey folks, I've been recently checking out Nim/rod and feel like it takes a lot of inspiration from D (I think the creator was in the D community too as some point). How do you think it compares? What areas does D, in principle,

Re: Worst Phobos documentation evar!

2015-01-03 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 2 January 2015 at 23:03:19 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/31/2014 4:39 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: But the point is translating a module name to a Phobos link requires transformation code too complex for a ddoc macro... In my C++ compiler library documentation, I made a point in the

Re: Worst Phobos documentation evar!

2014-12-30 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 30 December 2014 at 13:18:46 UTC, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Tue, 2014-12-30 at 13:08 +, via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Tuesday, 30 December 2014 at 05:36:47 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: That should be possible (probably after a few improvements). I'm working

Re: Lost a new commercial user this week :(

2014-12-17 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 17 December 2014 at 09:05:58 UTC, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote: On 16 December 2014 at 00:04, Kagamin via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d@puremagic.com wrote: On Sunday, 14 December 2014 at 08:37:36 UTC, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote: They then made HUGE noises about the quality of

Re: D game development: a call to action

2014-12-17 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 17 December 2014 at 21:26:11 UTC, bitwise wrote: On Wednesday, 17 December 2014 at 16:18:19 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote: On Wednesday, 17 December 2014 at 01:28:55 UTC, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote: The average gamer today is aged 30. I for one haven't gotten any money from my mum

Re: Programming in D book, decent ebook versions

2014-12-16 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 15 December 2014 at 19:45:34 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 12/15/2014 03:17 AM, Mengu wrote: blank space on the left which is caused by the width of the div#content. I was hoping that no one would notice. :p if you can change width in styling of div#content The design of the whole

Re: Programming in D book, decent ebook versions

2014-12-15 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 15 December 2014 at 10:25:18 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: - Removed the unrelated Turkish menu from the English pages - Improved the ebook formats - Removed the download page and linked the ebook versions directly from the main page instead I consider these beta quality:

Re: Lost a new commercial user this week :(

2014-12-15 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 15 December 2014 at 10:46:30 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Monday, 15 December 2014 at 10:42:26 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: On Monday, 15 December 2014 at 08:13:33 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Monday, 15 December 2014 at 07:48:37 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: Well, lots of Fortune 500 companies do. I

Re: i want my bounty!

2014-12-15 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 15 December 2014 at 11:09:49 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:47:29 + John Colvin via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d@puremagic.com wrote: The attachment feature is useful (and is used) for listing large test-cases, stack traces etc. It is not an

Re: i want my bounty!

2014-12-15 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 15 December 2014 at 14:44:03 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Monday, 15 December 2014 at 11:27:30 UTC, Mengu wrote: p.s. i know i have your sympathy because of my all lower-case writing despite the hate we get. :-) Ah! That's why I can never parse ketmar's posts at a glance and keep

Re: Learning D for a non computer science background person : pre-requisite knowledge?

2014-12-05 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 02:41:16 UTC, Shriramana Sharma via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Mayuresh Kathe via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com wrote: Okay, if that is the case, I'll dive into Mr. Alexandrescu's book as soon as I get my

Re: Blog post on hidden treasure in the D standard library.

2014-08-30 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 06:00:31 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:13:23 + krzaq via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: Negligence to do so is, to me, either extreme laziness or lack of respect to the reader.

Re: Programming in D book is 100% translated

2014-07-24 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 24 July 2014 at 08:11:01 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: I have completed the translation of the book. Phew... :) However, there is still more work, like adding a UDA chapter and working on many little TODO items. The following was the final chapter, which actually only scratches the

Re: DConf 2014: Adam D Ruppe's amazing slideless talk on x86 Bare Metal and Custom Runtime Programming

2014-07-18 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 18:42:38 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 18:37:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Put that on reddit. -- Andrei I've tried a few times and it doesn't work.. the post appears to me, but is invisible to everyone else. I think reddit's silent

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-17 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 16 June 2014 at 22:14:01 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: The reddit response this year hasn't been particularly impressive it seems to me compared to last year :( r/programming and hn is all about rust and go. on hn many d posts are invisible after some time. i believe mods are taking

Re: D Users Survey: Primary OS?

2014-05-30 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 18:24:57 UTC, 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. Thanks. Best regards, -Tom

Re: Steve Yegge on D

2014-05-22 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 22 May 2014 at 09:52:20 UTC, Joakim wrote: I was reading Brad Roberts' bio before his upcoming talk today, where he mentioned that he first heard of D because of blog posts by Steve Yegge, when I remembered that it was likely one of Steve Yegge's posts almost a decade ago that

Re: Dash: An Open Source Game Engine in D

2014-05-20 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 19 May 2014 at 19:50:37 UTC, Colden Cullen wrote: Hi everyone, I’m super excited to be able to announce that the Dash game engine[1] is finally stable and ready for public use! I’m currently the Lead Engine Programmer at Circular Studios[2] (the group behind Dash). We had 14

Re: Livestreaming DConf?

2014-05-20 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 20 May 2014 at 17:26:22 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 05/09/2014 12:48 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: livestreaming the event Do we know the details yet? Where to watch? Ali +1 for the livestream.

Re: Disabling SSL Verification on std.net.curl

2014-05-16 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 16 May 2014 at 04:58:47 UTC, Jack wrote: A follow up from : http://forum.dlang.org/thread/nsdomtdbqqlylrmgo...@forum.dlang.org I discovered that it was not a C::B issue as I already compiled it with Xamarin Studio and it was still spewing out the error:

Re: D Newbie Trying to Use D with Major C Libraries

2014-05-16 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 16 May 2014 at 09:44:11 UTC, bearophile wrote: John Colvin: Any plans to get any preprocessor stuff working? Do you mean in D? Bye, bearophile i think he means in dstep.

Re: TKD AddProtocolCommand example

2014-05-15 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 15 May 2014 at 17:30:22 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote: On Wednesday, 14 May 2014 at 21:23:02 UTC, DaveG wrote: tkd\window\window.d(426): Error: undefined identifier CommandCallback Added the missing import and now all works fine. Fixed in v1.0.5-beta. Any more issues open them up

Re: Learn D in x minutes

2014-05-14 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 14 May 2014 at 08:11:37 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Wednesday, 14 May 2014 at 07:36:57 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: On Wednesday, 14 May 2014 at 07:04:24 UTC, w0rp wrote: I'm unsure about the learn x in y minutes tutorials, but I did however think this was very neat.

Re: TKD set focus on window?

2014-05-14 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 14 May 2014 at 17:08:21 UTC, Joakim wrote: Hi, Quick question regarding TKD (tkinter): Is there a way to set focus on the application window automatically on run? I'm on Mac OS X if that's of any importance. I have tried to grep the documentation but I can't find anything

Re: How to use the std.process?

2014-05-13 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 13 May 2014 at 08:56:43 UTC, FrankLike wrote: I want to start the process by std.process. module main; import std.process,std.stdio; void main() { string url = http://dlang.org/;; executeShell(escapeShellCommand(wget, url, -O, dlang-index.html));

Re: How to use the std.process?

2014-05-13 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 13 May 2014 at 10:48:06 UTC, FrankLike wrote: does it work when you run iexplore localhost:8000 in command line? is path to iexplore in your windows path? Ok,I get the answer by myself. module main; import std.process,std.stdio; void main() { //spawnProcess(C:\\Program Files

Re: Need help with movement from C to D

2014-05-08 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 15:13:41 UTC, Artur Skawina via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: On 05/06/14 16:45, via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 14:25:01 UTC, Artur Skawina via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: I'm not sure why you'd want to wrap the .offsetof expression in a

Re: strange error with std.net.curl

2014-05-07 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 4 May 2014 at 16:40:08 UTC, Suliman wrote: I am trying to compile next code: import std.net.curl; import std.stdio; void main() { writeln(get(https://google.com/;)); } and got next error http://www.everfall.com/paste/id.php?y37dr6qmu54h this is related to verifying

Re: D For A Web Developer

2014-04-30 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 07:18:49 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 05:00:47 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 04:19:15 UTC, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote: Go has gained much of it's traction from provably and consistently

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