Re: D mention on developer.apple.com

2014-09-27 Thread ponce via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 18:29:15 UTC, David Gileadi wrote: On 9/26/14, 11:25 AM, Walter Bright wrote: I see the Apple blog did mention D. A glorious exception! Which is odd because Swift doesn't support exception handling :) From what I got on release Swift is quite odd: - regular

Re: D mention on developer.apple.com

2014-09-27 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
On 2014-09-27 11:05, ponce wrote: - and no exceptions, just because The Objective-C frameworks by Apple basically never throw exceptions. -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: D mention on developer.apple.com

2014-09-27 Thread Michel Fortin via Digitalmars-d
On 2014-09-27 10:02:59 +, Jacob Carlborg d...@me.com said: On 2014-09-27 11:05, ponce wrote: - and no exceptions, just because The Objective-C frameworks by Apple basically never throw exceptions. There's that. Also, remember Walter's fear of ARC in D that would be bloating the

Re: [OT] Re: D mention on developer.apple.com

2014-09-27 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
On 9/26/2014 11:34 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: It's really funny how the simplest easiest things, if they solve a common nuisance problem, are treated like amazing inventions. We have a similar situation for one product in our company. We make walk-in cooler controls. After installing our

Re: D mention on developer.apple.com

2014-09-26 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
On 26/09/14 03:31, Michel Fortin wrote: Maybe this will be of interest to someone. D was mentioned on the official Swift Blog today: Swift borrows a clever feature from the D language: these identifiers expand to the location of the caller when evaluated in a default argument list. --

Re: D mention on developer.apple.com

2014-09-26 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 06:37:49 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 26/09/14 03:31, Michel Fortin wrote: Maybe this will be of interest to someone. D was mentioned on the official Swift Blog today: Swift borrows a clever feature from the D language: these identifiers expand to the

Re: D mention on developer.apple.com

2014-09-26 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 01:31:06 UTC, Michel Fortin wrote: Maybe this will be of interest to someone. D was mentioned on the official Swift Blog today: Swift borrows a clever feature from the D language: these identifiers expand to the location of the caller when evaluated in a

Re: D mention on developer.apple.com

2014-09-26 Thread Daniel N via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 09:18:20 UTC, Chris wrote: On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 06:37:49 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 26/09/14 03:31, Michel Fortin wrote: Maybe this will be of interest to someone. D was mentioned on the official Swift Blog today: Swift borrows a clever feature

Re: D mention on developer.apple.com

2014-09-26 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 10:48:29 UTC, Daniel N wrote: On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 09:18:20 UTC, Chris wrote: On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 06:37:49 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 26/09/14 03:31, Michel Fortin wrote: Maybe this will be of interest to someone. D was mentioned on

Re: D mention on developer.apple.com

2014-09-26 Thread AsmMan via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 09:18:20 UTC, Chris wrote: On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 06:37:49 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 26/09/14 03:31, Michel Fortin wrote: Maybe this will be of interest to someone. D was mentioned on the official Swift Blog today: Swift borrows a clever feature

Re: D mention on developer.apple.com

2014-09-26 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 15:01:20 UTC, AsmMan wrote: On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 09:18:20 UTC, Chris wrote: On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 06:37:49 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 26/09/14 03:31, Michel Fortin wrote: Maybe this will be of interest to someone. D was mentioned on the

Re: D mention on developer.apple.com

2014-09-26 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:48:27AM +, Daniel N via Digitalmars-d wrote: [...] Those who do not understand D are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. ;) Stolen for my sigs file. :-) T -- Democracy: The triumph of popularity over principle. -- C.Bond

Re: D mention on developer.apple.com

2014-09-26 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 03:25:10PM +, Chris via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 15:01:20 UTC, AsmMan wrote: On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 09:18:20 UTC, Chris wrote: [...] See, D is not all that bad :) Who thinks so? The Whine Club :-))) Just kidding. The latest

Re: D mention on developer.apple.com

2014-09-26 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
On 9/26/2014 7:49 AM, Chris wrote: On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 10:48:29 UTC, Daniel N wrote: On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 09:18:20 UTC, Chris wrote: On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 06:37:49 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 26/09/14 03:31, Michel Fortin wrote: Maybe this will be of

Re: D mention on developer.apple.com

2014-09-26 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d
On 9/26/14, 11:25 AM, Walter Bright wrote: I see the Apple blog did mention D. A glorious exception! Which is odd because Swift doesn't support exception handling :)

Re: D mention on developer.apple.com

2014-09-26 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
On 9/26/2014 11:23 AM, Walter Bright wrote: Features of D are creeping into other languages right and left, but nobody wants to say they came from D. I see the Apple blog did mention D. A glorious exception!

[OT] Re: D mention on developer.apple.com

2014-09-26 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d
On 9/26/14 6:48 AM, Dicebot wrote: On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 01:31:06 UTC, Michel Fortin wrote: Maybe this will be of interest to someone. D was mentioned on the official Swift Blog today: Swift borrows a clever feature from the D language: these identifiers expand to the location of

Re: D mention on developer.apple.com

2014-09-26 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d
On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 09:18:50 -0700 H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d@puremagic.com wrote: Yeah, but the way I see it is, people get heated up over it because D is cool enough to matter to them. If D were really that horrible, people would just leave and not bother to get involved in

Re: D mention on developer.apple.com

2014-09-26 Thread Ola Fosheim Grostad via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 18:29:15 UTC, David Gileadi wrote: On 9/26/14, 11:25 AM, Walter Bright wrote: I see the Apple blog did mention D. A glorious exception! Which is odd because Swift doesn't support exception handling :) :D

D mention on developer.apple.com

2014-09-25 Thread Michel Fortin via Digitalmars-d
Maybe this will be of interest to someone. D was mentioned on the official Swift Blog today: Swift borrows a clever feature from the D language: these identifiers expand to the location of the caller when evaluated in a default argument list. -- Building assert() in Swift, Part 2: __FILE__