Re: DConf Online 2020 was a big success!

2020-11-25 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2020-11-25 03:38, Mike Parker wrote: On Monday, 23 November 2020 at 07:39:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Thanks go out to all the people who helped out by asking questions that made the chats interesting and informative. Special thanks go out to our speakers who provided the technical

Re: DConf Online 2020 was a big success!

2020-11-23 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2020-11-23 08:39, Walter Bright wrote: I enjoyed #DConfOnline very much, though I miss seeing everyone in person. I just started watching :)

Re: New language based on D

2020-11-18 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2020-11-12 20:00, bachmeier wrote: On Thursday, 12 November 2020 at 15:28:44 UTC, Faux Amis wrote: Maybe these type of subset languages could be integrated in the D frontpage. I hope not. That would create lots of problems: - There are multiple versions of the language. - What happens

Re: New language based on D

2020-11-12 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2020-11-12 16:08, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote: I am starting a project to create a new language based on D. The name I have chosen is Laser-D. It is supposed to be Lesser D - rather than Better C. This follows from my post about better branding for Better-C. The project will basically be

Re: DIP 1028 "Make @safe the Default" is dead

2020-05-29 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2020-05-29 16:22, Paul Backus wrote: On Friday, 29 May 2020 at 04:53:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: The subject says it all. If you care about memory safety, I recommending adding `safe:` as the first line in all your project modules, and annotate individual functions otherwise as

Re: DIP 1028 "Make @safe the Default" is dead

2020-05-29 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2020-05-29 16:13, SashaGreat wrote: On Friday, 29 May 2020 at 13:11:29 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: ... Unrelated to this decision, I wanted to apologize for having lowered the quality of discourse in this forum. I think you should. To be honest first I thought it was a fake account,

Re: DIP 1028--Make @safe the Default--Formal Assessment

2020-05-25 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2020-05-24 00:15, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/23/2020 4:26 AM, Faux Amis wrote: Just a suggestion, but sometimes matters are best discussed over audio/video. Would having a public teams/zoom/.. meeting be helpful? I would definitely listen/watch; even if I were muted and could only chat

Re: DIP 1028--Make @safe the Default--Formal Assessment

2020-05-23 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2020-05-22 03:16, Walter Bright wrote: The level of negativity in that thread was what caused me to stop responding, though I continued reading. Every reply I made produced 10 responses, an exponential explosion, and yet I was just repeating myself. Two sides to every story. FWIW, I am

Re: float has too much precision

2020-04-21 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 2020-04-21 22:10, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 4/21/20 3:47 PM, Faux Amis wrote: I'm dumbfounded, why does the following code write '35' on DMD32 D Compiler v2.091.0-dirty? module magic; float magic( float f ) { return f + 35f - f; } void main() { import std.stdio;

float has too much precision

2020-04-21 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-learn
I'm dumbfounded, why does the following code write '35' on DMD32 D Compiler v2.091.0-dirty? module magic; float magic( float f ) { return f + 35f - f; } void main() { import std.stdio; writeln( magic(1_000_000_000f) ); }

Re: Deep nesting vs early returns

2018-10-02 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d
On 2018-10-02 21:09, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2018-10-02 20:14, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Kate Gregory makes a good argument on something I've often commented in code reviews: https://youtu.be/n0Ak6xtVXno?t=2682 Swift has the "guard" statement to help with early returns (and unwrap

Re: Ecoji-d v1.0.0 is released - Base1024 using emojis 

2018-03-17 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2018-03-14 18:30, Anton Fediushin wrote: , I'm glad to announce that ecoji-d - pure D implementation of ecoji encoding version 1️⃣.0️⃣.0️⃣ is finally released❗ What is ecoji? Ecoji encodes data as base1024 with an emoji character set. It can be used instead of boring and old base64 冷冷冷.

Re: Is there an opposite of .toString()?

2017-10-15 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 2017-10-14 05:47, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Saturday, October 14, 2017 00:18:35 myst via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: I'm sorry if this has been answered already, it seems like a very basic question. There is .toString() method convention for printing, but I can not find anything alike for

Re: html fetcher/parser

2017-08-14 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 2017-08-13 19:51, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Sunday, 13 August 2017 at 15:54:45 UTC, Faux Amis wrote: Just curious, but is there a spec of sorts which defines which errors should be fixed and such? The HTML5 spec describes how you are supposed to parse various things, including the recovery

Re: html fetcher/parser

2017-08-13 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 2017-08-13 01:49, Soulsbane wrote: On Saturday, 12 August 2017 at 19:53:22 UTC, Faux Amis wrote: I would like to get into D again by making a small program which fetches a website every X-time and keeps track of all changes within specified dom elements. fetching: should I go for std

Re: html fetcher/parser

2017-08-13 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 2017-08-12 22:22, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Saturday, 12 August 2017 at 19:53:22 UTC, Faux Amis wrote: [...] [...] --- // compile: $ dmd thisfile.d ~/arsd/{dom,http2,characterencodings} import std.stdio; import arsd.dom; void main() { auto document =

html fetcher/parser

2017-08-12 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-learn
I would like to get into D again by making a small program which fetches a website every X-time and keeps track of all changes within specified dom elements. fetching: should I go for std curl, vibe.d or something else? parsing: I could only find these dub packages: htmld & libdominator. And

Re: Need some vibe.d hosting advice

2017-08-12 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d
On 2017-08-12 12:46, Andre Pany wrote: On Saturday, 12 August 2017 at 08:49:44 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi wrote: On Friday, 11 August 2017 at 13:06:54 UTC, aberba wrote: So I'm into this platform with a vibe.d api server + back-end and I'm confused/curious to know the hosting package to use. I will

Re: {OT} My machines are dead

2017-06-06 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d
On 2017-06-06 20:51, Faux Amis wrote: On 2017-06-06 20:02, Stefan Koch wrote: On Tuesday, 6 June 2017 at 16:42:36 UTC, Faux Amis wrote: On 2017-06-06 14:46, Stefan Koch wrote: Hi Guys, bad news my dev machine and the backup machine are dead. The replacement hard-drive I ordered a week ago

Re: {OT} My machines are dead

2017-06-06 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d
On 2017-06-06 20:02, Stefan Koch wrote: On Tuesday, 6 June 2017 at 16:42:36 UTC, Faux Amis wrote: On 2017-06-06 14:46, Stefan Koch wrote: Hi Guys, bad news my dev machine and the backup machine are dead. The replacement hard-drive I ordered a week ago came today, but that's no longer the

Re: {OT} My machines are dead

2017-06-06 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d
On 2017-06-06 14:46, Stefan Koch wrote: Hi Guys, bad news my dev machine and the backup machine are dead. The replacement hard-drive I ordered a week ago came today, but that's no longer the issue. If someone in the North Rhine-Westphalia area, wants get rid of a working computer, please

Re: D is really cool

2017-05-12 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d
On 2017-05-10 07:24, nkm1 wrote: So I spent last week (or so) learning D, and it's a great language. Initially I was apprehensive about GC (non generational, conservative...), but now I realize that I can use D as an improved C (combining malloc and GC :). I always liked C better than C++

Re: Porting Java code to D that uses << and >>> operators

2017-05-02 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 2017-05-02 18:55, TheGag96 wrote: On Tuesday, 2 May 2017 at 07:42:45 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: From that link: "Note that dmd currently does not comply with left to right evaluation of function arguments and AssignExpression". This is something I've never understood. Why doesn't DMD

Re: Porting Java code to D that uses << and >>> operators

2017-05-02 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 2017-05-02 09:42, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2017-05-02 01:27, Faux Amis wrote: To me, this [2] suggests otherwise ;) Or am I missing something? [2] https://dlang.org/spec/expression.html#order-of-evaluation From that link: "Note that dmd currently does not comply with left to right

Re: Porting Java code to D that uses << and >>> operators

2017-05-01 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-learn
Not sure if this is still the case. But this [1] suggests that D doesn't have an evaluation order defined but Java does. [1] http://dsource.org/projects/dwt/wiki/Porting#Evaluationorder To me, this [2] suggests otherwise ;) Or am I missing something? [2]

Re: Interpolated strings

2017-04-20 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d
On 2017-04-19 03:45, Jon Degenhardt wrote: On Saturday, 15 April 2017 at 20:04:13 UTC, Jonas Drewsen wrote: I've been wanting to have support for interpolated strings in D for some time now that will allow you to write e.g.: [...] One place I'd appreciate interpolated strings is as an

Re: Interpolated strings

2017-04-18 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d
On 2017-04-18 23:56, Jonathan Marler wrote: I've thought about it and decided, I like this idea. I've only used interpolated strings in PHP which left a bad taste, but I realized that interpolating strings makes it impossible for your format string and your arguments to get out of sync. This

Re: Visual Programming: NoFlo and Flow-based Programming

2017-04-14 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d
On 2017-04-14 10:31, davidvm wrote: Hello everyone, I just want to share this thought with you: I think a great way that could maybe help popularize the use of D, could be by developing a Flow-based programming (FBP) implementation for NoFlo and Flowhub. What do you think? Please comment

Re: Mike Parker is the new DIP czar

2017-04-04 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2017-04-04 01:28, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello, By this we are happy to announce that Mike Parker graciously agreed to take over the role of DIP czar. Is this the list of all current ruling czars? https://wiki.dlang.org/People Maybe it should be accompanied with open positions.

Re: Memory Allocation

2017-03-29 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 2017-03-29 23:30, Faux Amis wrote: On 2017-03-29 21:19, Enigma wrote: I have a memory buffer allocated using different methods. It is simply a pointer and a size. Can you maybe just tread it like an array and slice it for allocation? *treat*

Re: Memory Allocation

2017-03-29 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 2017-03-29 21:19, Enigma wrote: I have a memory buffer allocated using different methods. It is simply a pointer and a size. Can you maybe just tread it like an array and slice it for allocation?

Re: Introducing Diskuto - an embeddable comment system

2017-03-14 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-announce
Started a temporary instance for hands-on testing: http://rejectedsoftware.com:10888/ Updated I see ;)

Re: DCV v0.2.0 - adaptation to the new ndslice

2017-03-02 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2017-03-02 06:13, jmh530 wrote: On Wednesday, 1 March 2017 at 21:48:27 UTC, Faux Amis wrote: Nice! Question, do you know of any (plans to make a) deep learning framework in D? (like: http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org) I only recall a previous discussion on this thread

Re: DCV v0.2.0 - adaptation to the new ndslice

2017-03-01 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2017-03-01 18:10, Relja Ljubobratovic wrote: Hi everyone, I wanted to let you know that we've released new version of DCV[1], an open source computer vision library, written in D programming language, with goal to provide tools for solving most common computer vision problems - various image

Re: Schema for ndslice internals

2017-02-27 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2017-02-26 14:13, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: https://github.com/libmir/mir-algorithm/blob/master/README.md Schemas and other visuals are great! I'm not using ndslice at the moment, but I might; thanks in advance!

Re: Announcement: DConf 2017 Hackathon May 7

2017-02-16 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-announce
I understand this is especially nice for the people who are physically there. But, is there any way to collaborate for those that are physically challenged (as in, not in the vicinity). A video stream, or an official open communication channel. I would love to follow the development.

Flat file CMS in D?

2017-02-16 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-learn
I was wondering, what would be the D equivalent of a flat file (as opposed to database driven) content management system?

Re: CTFE Status

2016-12-09 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d
On 2016-12-09 00:00, Stefan Koch wrote: On Thursday, 8 December 2016 at 19:49:47 UTC, Faux Amis wrote: Any reason for the infinite depth update posting style? I would have loved to see each update to be a child of the root post with its own discussions tree. Currently, the posts are quite

Re: CTFE Status

2016-12-08 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d
Any reason for the infinite depth update posting style? I would have loved to see each update to be a child of the root post with its own discussions tree. Currently, the posts are quite unreadable in tree view (thunderbird). On 2016-10-31 14:29, Stefan Koch wrote: Hi Guys, since I got a few

Re: Dlang dynamic compilation

2016-11-22 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2016-11-22 12:51, Nordlöw wrote: On Monday, 21 November 2016 at 18:59:17 UTC, Ivan Butygin wrote: Hacked ldc sources are here: https://github.com/Hardcode84/ldc/tree/runtime_compile This could be used to accelerate genetic algorithms at run-time.

Re: [dlang.org] new forum design

2016-01-18 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d
Regarding the font discussion: The screenshots are made with sub-pixel anti aliasing on. Which are display specific ;)

Re: Implicit Interface Deduction

2015-12-16 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Mon 14/12/2015 00:27, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 12/13/2015 02:09 PM, Faux Amis wrote: interface IA {} interface IB {} interface IC {} interface IAB : IA, IB {} interface IBC : IB, IC {} class C : IA, IB, IC {} // Defining C as : IAB, IBC // is not really scalable ;) It is not automatic at

Re: Implicit Interface Deduction

2015-12-16 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Mon 14/12/2015 02:45, Chris Wright wrote: On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 23:09:47 +0100, Faux Amis wrote: interface IA {} interface IB {} interface IC {} interface IAB : IA, IB {} interface IBC : IB, IC {} class C : IA, IB, IC {} // Defining C as : IAB, IBC // is not really scalable ;) void main() {

Implicit Interface Deduction

2015-12-13 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-learn
interface IA {} interface IB {} interface IC {} interface IAB : IA, IB {} interface IBC : IB, IC {} class C : IA, IB, IC {} // Defining C as : IAB, IBC // is not really scalable ;) void main() { IAB c = new C(); // This doesn't work. } // Any suggestions?

Re: Where will D sit in the web service space?

2015-07-13 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d
On Mon 13/07/2015 13:42, ChangLong wrote: On Monday, 13 July 2015 at 10:12:33 UTC, Faux Amis wrote: On Mon 13/07/2015 06:29, ChangLong wrote: On Sunday, 12 July 2015 at 12:14:31 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: -snip- What do you think about the future for D in the web service space? I has

Re: Where will D sit in the web service space?

2015-07-13 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d
On Mon 13/07/2015 13:26, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, 13 July 2015 at 10:12:33 UTC, Faux Amis wrote: In my experience, vibe.d is a beautiful alternative to node.js and it is not the immaturity of D that is holding it back, vibe.d

Re: Where will D sit in the web service space?

2015-07-13 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d
On Mon 13/07/2015 14:06, Márcio Martins marcio...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, 13 July 2015 at 10:12:33 UTC, Faux Amis wrote: In my experience, vibe.d is a beautiful alternative to node.js and it is not the immaturity of D that is holding it back, vibe.d just needs to grow a bit. My

Re: Where will D sit in the web service space?

2015-07-13 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d
On Mon 13/07/2015 06:29, ChangLong wrote: On Sunday, 12 July 2015 at 12:14:31 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: -snip- What do you think about the future for D in the web service space? I has use vibe.d for a small project recently, after finish that I think the follow fact will prevent many

Re: Where will D sit in the web service space?

2015-07-13 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d
On Mon 13/07/2015 16:58, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, 13 July 2015 at 12:39:51 UTC, Faux Amis wrote: To me the GC is there for prototyping anf the moment we have performance issues we can strip out the lacking parts. So in essence

Re: Pragmatic D Tutorial

2015-02-10 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Mon 07/10/2013 21:18, qznc wrote: I believe one of the things D needs right now is more documentation. Therefore, I started writing a tutorial. It is aimed at people who can already program well in other languages. This means nothing about loops or structs, because I expect most people to

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-03 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-announce
This has to be a joke! I couldn't answer a single question: What is the name of the D language syntax feature illustrated in the following fragment of D code? string a = x5095 f9 95d723c2; Seems like hex to me What is the name of the D language syntax feature illustrated in the following

Re: D Users Survey: Primary OS?

2014-05-30 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d
On Thu 29/05/2014 17:53, 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 Win 8.1 here.

Run Doc Examples

2014-04-23 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d
What is stopping us from making all the code in the docs runnable like the code on the front page? http://dlang.org/ vs http://dlang.org/phobos/std_algorithm.html Import, setup and output code can be hidden until the user selects the code box.