Re: [Phoronix] D Language Still Showing Promise, Advancements

2013-06-23 Thread Marco Leise
Am Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:53:13 +0200 schrieb Adam D. Ruppe destructiona...@gmail.com: On Thursday, 20 June 2013 at 20:47:19 UTC, Michael wrote: Also 3 types of pointers scares me. This actually doesn't scare me because it is kinda useful for certain situations. However, I don't think it

Re: [Phoronix] D Language Still Showing Promise, Advancements

2013-06-23 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
On Sunday, 23 June 2013 at 15:30:16 UTC, Marco Leise wrote: They have compiler support which removes the syntactical noise of templates and makes them behave more natural. Indeed. I don't mind the syntax (actually, I prefer RefCounted!T to ~T or whatever symbol rust uses) but there's some

Re: LDC in LLVM Release Notes

2013-06-23 Thread Walter Bright
On 6/19/2013 11:02 PM, Kai Nacke wrote: On Wednesday, 19 June 2013 at 20:40:39 UTC, qznc wrote: LDC is explicitly mentioned in the LLVM 3.3 Release Notes [0]. In contrast to other frontends, LDC seems to follow upstream much more closely (or maybe is forced to due to bugs?). Anyhow, kudos to

Re: DConf 2013 Day 3 Talk 5: Effective SIMD for modern architectures by Manu Evans

2013-06-23 Thread bearophile
Manu: This is interesting. I didn't know about this. An important thing here is: what's the semantics present in that language that is missing in D (and that is useful for the optimizer)? Is it possible/worth to add it? Bye, bearophile

Re: D/Objective-C, extern (Objective-C)

2013-06-23 Thread bearophile
Jacob Carlborg: http://michelf.ca/projects/d-objc/syntax/ Instead of: extern (Objective-C) Is it better to use a naming more D-idiomatic? extern (Objective_C) Regarding this syntax: void insertItem(ObjcObject object, NSInteger value) [insertItemWithObjectValue:atIndex:]; Is it

Re: D/Objective-C, extern (Objective-C)

2013-06-23 Thread Simen Kjaeraas
On 2013-06-23, 23:02, bearophile wrote: Jacob Carlborg: http://michelf.ca/projects/d-objc/syntax/ Instead of: extern (Objective-C) Is it better to use a naming more D-idiomatic? extern (Objective_C) There's already some precedence in extern (C++). -- Simen