Re: Name That Technique!

2017-02-13 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d
On 02/07/2017 04:28 PM, deadalnix wrote: On Saturday, 4 February 2017 at 23:54:12 UTC, David Gileadi wrote: That's obviously a self important lookup. This. So much this. I'm afraid you are the only one who appreciate my humor :) "self-important" is official now:

Re: Name That Technique!

2017-02-07 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 4 February 2017 at 23:54:12 UTC, David Gileadi wrote: That's obviously a self important lookup. This. So much this. I'm afraid you are the only one who appreciate my humor :)

Re: Name That Technique!

2017-02-06 Thread TheGag96 via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 6 February 2017 at 11:03:32 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 2/6/2017 12:45 AM, Dominikus Dittes Scherkl wrote: But is this really worth an article? It's ideally suited for an article. It's easy to grasp, and enables a very interesting idiom. I personally think the idiom is neato

Re: Name That Technique!

2017-02-06 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 6 February 2017 at 09:39:25 UTC, Dominikus Dittes Scherkl wrote: On Monday, 6 February 2017 at 09:00:43 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Monday, 6 February 2017 at 08:45:45 UTC, Dominikus Dittes Scherkl wrote: But is this really worth an article? IMO, as something targeted at non-D

Re: Name That Technique!

2017-02-06 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
On 2/6/2017 12:45 AM, Dominikus Dittes Scherkl wrote: But is this really worth an article? It's ideally suited for an article. It's easy to grasp, and enables a very interesting idiom.

Re: Name That Technique!

2017-02-06 Thread Dominikus Dittes Scherkl via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 6 February 2017 at 09:00:43 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Monday, 6 February 2017 at 08:45:45 UTC, Dominikus Dittes Scherkl wrote: But is this really worth an article? IMO, as something targeted at non-D users, yes. Oh yeah? For bragging about how D uses modules and doesn't need

Re: Name That Technique!

2017-02-06 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 6 February 2017 at 08:45:45 UTC, Dominikus Dittes Scherkl wrote: But is this really worth an article? IMO, as something targeted at non-D users, yes. A brief overview of D's module system, a description of the problem & how the DIP was brought up to address it, how the DIP was

Re: Name That Technique!

2017-02-06 Thread Dominikus Dittes Scherkl via Digitalmars-d
imports. Any thoughts? I like it! Wow. This is... brilliant. Thanks for the great idea. I ran a few tests and it seems to be doing out of the box most of what we want with DIP1005 with no language change at all. Congratulations! I agree, it's pretty dazz! We need to give this technique

Re: Name That Technique!

2017-02-05 Thread Daniel Nielsen via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 4 February 2017 at 14:57:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 2/3/17 6:33 PM, Walter Bright wrote: Daniel, Dominikus: please consider writing an article about this. That would be indeed very very useful. -- Andrei Okay, I will. However I currently have some obligations which

Re: Name That Technique!

2017-02-04 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d
On 2/3/17 5:00 PM, deadalnix wrote: On Friday, 3 February 2017 at 23:33:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I agree, it's pretty dazz! We need to give this technique a memorable name (not an acronym). I thought "Voldemort Types" turned out rather well, whereas CTFE is klunky, UFCS is

Re: Name That Technique!

2017-02-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 2/3/17 6:33 PM, Walter Bright wrote: Daniel, Dominikus: please consider writing an article about this. That would be indeed very very useful. -- Andrei

Re: Name That Technique!

2017-02-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 2/3/17 6:50 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 02/03/2017 03:33 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 2/3/17 10:41 AM, Daniel N wrote: auto fun_time(imp!"std.datetime".SysTime tm) We need to give this technique a memorable name (not an acronym). If it's going to stay "imp" (whi

Re: Name That Technique!

2017-02-03 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 02/03/2017 06:50 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote: "the imp idiom" might do but imps have a very insignificant appearance in Harry Potter. But they have much significance in Doom :) ...part of which takes place on Phobos ;)

Re: Name That Technique!

2017-02-03 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 3 February 2017 at 23:33:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I agree, it's pretty dazz! We need to give this technique a memorable name (not an acronym). I thought "Voldemort Types" turned out rather well, whereas CTFE is klunky, UFCS is even worse. The absolute worst is C++ SFI

Re: Name That Technique!

2017-02-03 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d
On 02/03/2017 03:33 PM, Walter Bright wrote: >> On 2/3/17 10:41 AM, Daniel N wrote: >>> auto fun_time(imp!"std.datetime".SysTime tm) > We need to give this technique a memorable name (not an acronym). If it's going to stay "imp" (which I initial

Name That Technique!

2017-02-03 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
s and it seems to be doing out of the box most of what we want with DIP1005 with no language change at all. Congratulations! I agree, it's pretty dazz! We need to give this technique a memorable name (not an acronym). I thought "Voldemort Types" turned out rather well, whe