Re: Open source dmd on Reddit!

2009-03-09 Thread Don
Nick Sabalausky wrote: dsimcha dsim...@yahoo.com wrote in message news:got0ff$28r...@digitalmars.com... == Quote from grauzone (n...@example.net)'s article String mixins are awful in the first place. The only thing that could save this kind of thing are AST macros. Both Murphey's law and the

Re: Open source dmd on Reddit!

2009-03-09 Thread Leandro Lucarella
Don, el 8 de marzo a las 07:39 me escribiste: Gregor Richards wrote: I sort of hate to throw myself into the fray, especially since my studies have kept me more-or-less detached from D entirely, but ... I realize people are going to misuse the term Open Source. However, the term is NOT

Re: GUI Design (DWT) with XML

2009-03-09 Thread Jacob Carlborg
Bill Baxter wrote: On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:47 AM, TomD t_dem...@nospam.web.de wrote: Hi, I have uploaded xwt to http://demmer.kilu.de/Software/xwt_20090305.zip This is an extensible library that parses the XML description of a GUI. It is based on DWT, the SWT port to D, and Tango. In theory,

Cristian Vlasceanu and D for the .NET platform

2009-03-09 Thread Walter Bright
http://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/838lf/cristian_vlasceanu_and_d_for_the_net_platform/

Re: Cristian Vlasceanu and D for the .NET platform

2009-03-09 Thread Bill Baxter
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.comwrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/838lf/cristian_vlasceanu_and_d_for_the_net_platform/ I'm hoping this works out, so I can use D in my new job. :-) --bb

Re: Cristian Vlasceanu and D for the .NET platform

2009-03-09 Thread BCS
Reply to Walter, http://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/838lf/cristian_vlasceanu_a nd_d_for_the_net_platform/ His comments on array slicing are interesting. Seems to me the solution should be to have *all* dynamic arrays be ArraySegment as all dynamic arrays under DMD are a slices of

Re: Cristian Vlasceanu and D for the .NET platform

2009-03-09 Thread grauzone
BCS wrote: Reply to Walter, http://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/838lf/cristian_vlasceanu_a nd_d_for_the_net_platform/ His comments on array slicing are interesting. Seems to me the solution should be to have *all* dynamic arrays be ArraySegment as all dynamic arrays under DMD are

Re: Open source dmd on Reddit!

2009-03-09 Thread dennis luehring
Sure, they're open to _severe_ abuse, but for the case when they are used to generate source code (eg, from a DSL), they are absolutely perfect, and not a hack at all. In that particular scenario, they are much better than AST macros could ever be. They're a replacement for creating a text

Re: Cristian Vlasceanu and D for the .NET platform

2009-03-09 Thread bearophile
grauzone: Seems The Gods prefer having something like [...] Don't you see that what you say is negative? What you say lowers the mood of people, makes them nervous. What you say is worse than useless, has a net negative value. So I suggest you to change and try to build something, to add value

Re: Cristian Vlasceanu and D for the .NET platform

2009-03-09 Thread Nick Sabalausky
bearophile bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote in message news:gp4dak$1b2...@digitalmars.com... grauzone: Seems The Gods prefer having something like [...] Don't you see that what you say is negative? What you say lowers the mood of people, makes them nervous. What you say is worse than useless,

Re: Open source dmd on Reddit!

2009-03-09 Thread Walter Bright
Don wrote: They're a replacement for creating a text file, adding a line to your makefile in order to invoke a program to read the text file and spit out a d source file, then add another line in the makefile to compile that d file, then link it in, and try to integrate the whole thing

Re: Cristian Vlasceanu and D for the .NET platform

2009-03-09 Thread Tim M
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:23:08 +1300, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/838lf/cristian_vlasceanu_and_d_for_the_net_platform/ I've been looking at that blog on and off a few times but I have missed a few posts. Has there ever been a

Re: Open source dmd on Reddit!

2009-03-09 Thread Don
Leandro Lucarella wrote: Don, el 8 de marzo a las 07:39 me escribiste: Gregor Richards wrote: I sort of hate to throw myself into the fray, especially since my studies have kept me more-or-less detached from D entirely, but ... I realize people are going to misuse the term Open Source.