Re: Dconf 2014 talks - when to be available

2014-05-28 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 28/05/14 00:15, Leandro Lucarella wrote: I think they should be uploaded all ASAP and then you can do official announcements in reddit or wherever you thinks it's best to promote the language. But really, introducing artificial waiting time for people ALREADY interested and using the

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/27/2014 10:40 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote: When he explained why C++ inferred a const int type as int, he tripped me up because D does drop const for value types. But D does the simple to explain thing, may not be the expected thing (seen questions about it in D.learn), but it is simple to

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-28 Thread dennis luehring via Digitalmars-d-announce
woudl be nice to have some sort of example by example comparison or as an extension to the page http://dlang.org/cpptod.html Am 28.05.2014 07:40, schrieb Jesse Phillips: On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 05:30:18 UTC, Philippe Sigaud via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: I did a translation of most of

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-28 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 14:20:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 13:27:56 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Will epub version be available too? Yeah, I think it is already on the packt website. I'm looking at getting the ebook version - does that version include the errata

Re: Dconf 2014 talks - when to be available

2014-05-28 Thread simendsjo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 05/28/2014 05:54 AM, Saurabh Das wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 23:48:44 UTC, currysoup wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 23:08:01 UTC, Leandro Lucarella wrote: Ali Çehreli, el 27 de May a las 10:40 me escribiste: On 05/27/2014 09:18 AM, Suliman wrote: apparently to stay on top of

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-28 Thread Rene Zwanenburg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 16:42:35 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26m8hy/scott_meyers_dconf_2014_keynote_the_last_thing_d/ https://news.ycombinator.com/newest (search that page, if not found click More and search again)

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-28 Thread Alix Pexton via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 28/05/2014 9:00 AM, Mike James wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 14:20:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 13:27:56 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Will epub version be available too? Yeah, I think it is already on the packt website. I'm looking at getting the ebook

Re: Dconf 2014 talks - when to be available

2014-05-28 Thread Leandro Lucarella via Digitalmars-d-announce
Saurabh Das, el 28 de May a las 03:54 me escribiste: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 23:48:44 UTC, currysoup wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 23:08:01 UTC, Leandro Lucarella wrote: Ali Çehreli, el 27 de May a las 10:40 me escribiste: On 05/27/2014 09:18 AM, Suliman wrote: apparently to stay on

Re: Dconf 2014 talks - when to be available

2014-05-28 Thread Leandro Lucarella via Digitalmars-d-announce
Jacob Carlborg, el 28 de May a las 08:18 me escribiste: On 28/05/14 00:15, Leandro Lucarella wrote: I think they should be uploaded all ASAP and then you can do official announcements in reddit or wherever you thinks it's best to promote the language. But really, introducing artificial

Re: Video of my LDC talk @ FOSDEM'14

2014-05-28 Thread Alix Pexton via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 27/05/2014 1:15 PM, Tommi wrote: On Monday, 26 May 2014 at 05:59:35 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: [..] http://video.fosdem.org/2014/K4401/Sunday/LDC_the_LLVMbased_D_compiler.webm I can't watch this on my iPhone. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/vlc-for-ios/id650377962?mt=8

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-28 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 21:40:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/27/2014 2:22 PM, w0rp wrote: I'm actually a native speaker of 25 years and I didn't get it at first. Natural language communicates ideas approximately. What bugs me is when people say: I could care less. when they mean:

Re: Dconf 2014 talks - when to be available

2014-05-28 Thread Bruno Medeiros via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 28/05/2014 04:54, Saurabh Das wrote: I actually prefer the slow release of the videos - it gives me enough time to digest each talk and discuss it before the next one grabs mine and everyone else's attention. I think releasing one video every few days leads to much more in-depth discussion

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-28 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 09:06:12 UTC, Alix Pexton wrote: On 28/05/2014 9:00 AM, Mike James wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 14:20:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 13:27:56 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Will epub version be available too? Yeah, I think it is already

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-28 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 21:40:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/27/2014 2:22 PM, w0rp wrote: I'm actually a native speaker of 25 years and I didn't get it at first. Natural language communicates ideas approximately. What bugs me is when people say: I could care less. when they mean:

Re: Dconf 2014 talks - when to be available

2014-05-28 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 12:20:34 UTC, Bruno Medeiros wrote: On 28/05/2014 04:54, Saurabh Das wrote: I actually prefer the slow release of the videos - it gives me enough time to digest each talk and discuss it before the next one grabs mine and everyone else's attention. I think

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-28 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 May 2014 at 19:29:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Adam graciously shared the slides of his DConf 2014 talk with us: http://imgur.com/hHCN3OL Andrei This was best marketing for Adam book possible :) Someone who can talk for an hour without any visual helpers while still

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-28 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 08:01:00 UTC, Mike James wrote: I'm looking at getting the ebook version - does that version include the errata described above? Yeah, those errors were in the .doc I sent in after revisions on chapter 1 and we didn't catch them in the final draft. But the

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-28 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 05:23:03 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: I always chalked it up to the whole nerd thing: Inverse relationship in outgoingness between in-person vs semi-anonymous. I don't think I'm /that/ much different; I rarely start threads, for example, but will talk in replies,

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-28 Thread anonymous_me via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, 28 May 2014 04:48:09 +, Jesse Phillips wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 16:42:35 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26m8hy/scott_meyers_dconf_2014_keynote_the_last_thing_d/ https://news.ycombinator.com/newest (search that page, if not

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-28 Thread Jesse Phillips via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 14:39:53 UTC, anonymous_me wrote: The first line: int x2; // (at global scope) The x2 resides in Thread Local Storage (TLS). A __gshared would put it in global scope. Still initialized to int.init which is zero. D doesn't have global scope. C++ does not do

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-28 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 10:00:01 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 19:58:10 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 5/6/2014 9:11 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 12:40:48 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Any way to see the TOC? Hmm, not on the website yet but here it

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-28 Thread Mattcoder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 14:06:33 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 08:01:00 UTC, Mike James wrote: I'm looking at getting the ebook version - does that version include the errata described above? Yeah, those errors were in the .doc I sent in after revisions on

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-28 Thread Mattcoder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 16:51:56 UTC, Mattcoder wrote: On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 14:06:33 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 08:01:00 UTC, Mike James wrote: I'm looking at getting the ebook version - does that version include the errata described above? Yeah,

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-28 Thread Andrzej Dwojczynski via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 08:58:34 UTC, Rene Zwanenburg wrote: I just noticed someone posted a link to the talk at gamedev[0]. I don't know who the poster is but the gamedev.net community is pretty large; this should result in quite some extra views :) Out of curiosity - did anyone try to

Re: Video of my LDC talk @ FOSDEM'14

2014-05-28 Thread Tommi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 09:14:18 UTC, Alix Pexton wrote: On 27/05/2014 1:15 PM, Tommi wrote: On Monday, 26 May 2014 at 05:59:35 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: [..] http://video.fosdem.org/2014/K4401/Sunday/LDC_the_LLVMbased_D_compiler.webm I can't watch this on my iPhone.

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-28 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
I just posted it to reddit btw: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26pn00/d_cookbook_officially_published_consists_of_d/

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/28/2014 10:34 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I just posted it to reddit btw: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26pn00/d_cookbook_officially_published_consists_of_d/ Just snagged my copy!

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/28/2014 2:28 AM, John Colvin wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 21:40:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/27/2014 2:22 PM, w0rp wrote: I'm actually a native speaker of 25 years and I didn't get it at first. Natural language communicates ideas approximately. What bugs me is when people say:

Adam D. Ruppe's D Cookbook now available!

2014-05-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book http://www.amazon.com/D-Cookbook-Adam-D-Ruppe/dp/1783287217 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26pn00/d_cookbook_officially_published_consists_of_d/ After watching Adam's most excellent presentation at

Re: Adam D. Ruppe's D Cookbook now available!

2014-05-28 Thread Olivier Pisano via Digitalmars-d-announce
I have just ordered mine. I can't wait to get it ! 

Re: Adam D. Ruppe's D Cookbook now available!

2014-05-28 Thread Misu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Thank you, I ordered mine as well !

Re: Adam D. Ruppe's D Cookbook now available!

2014-05-28 Thread Szymon Gatner via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 19:06:04 UTC, Misu wrote: Thank you, I ordered mine as well ! I am already half through mine :) Great stuff!

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-28 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, 27 May 2014 06:42:41 -1000 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26m8hy/scott_meyers_dconf_2014_keynote_the_last_thing_d/ https://news.ycombinator.com/newest (search that page, if not

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-28 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 05/28/2014 03:10 PM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2014 06:42:41 -1000 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
Some of the inconsistencies you mentioned and Brian mentioned in his talk are actually the result of consistencies. I know this is a bit of a difficult thing to wrap one's head around, but having something be mathematically consistent and humanly consistent are often at severe odds.

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-28 Thread Jesse Phillips via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 22:42:03 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: However, those expectations are based on the inside-out syntax of C. Naturally, wanting to be consistent, especially compared to C, D should deviate from that syntax. I don't get to read the original email, but I agree with the

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-28 Thread Brian Rogoff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 23:07:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Some of the inconsistencies you mentioned and Brian mentioned in his talk are actually the result of consistencies. I know this is a bit of a difficult thing to wrap one's head around, but having something be mathematically

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/28/2014 5:35 PM, Brian Rogoff wrote: Could you elaborate? Using some of the examples Brian gave, which ones do you think are are mathematically consistent/human inconsistent and which the inverse? Off the top of my head: static if (condition) else : ... declarations ...

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-28 Thread Simen Kjærås via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2014-05-28 13:05, Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 21:40:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/27/2014 2:22 PM, w0rp wrote: I'm actually a native speaker of 25 years and I didn't get it at first. Natural language communicates ideas approximately.

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-28 Thread Brian Schott via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 00:58:35 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Off the top of my head: static if (condition) else : ... declarations ... All attributes apply to either: 1. the next statement or declaration 2. { ... } 3. : ... That case is (3), as static if is set up as an

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-28 Thread safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 13:05:53 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: Whats wrong with If you think that, you have another thing coming.? I've always understood it sort of like say your Father saying: If you think that [i.e. you can steal your little brother's ice cream cone], then you have

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/28/2014 6:06 PM, Brian Schott wrote: On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 00:58:35 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Off the top of my head: static if (condition) else : ... declarations ... All attributes apply to either: 1. the next statement or declaration 2. { ... } 3. : ... That case

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-28 Thread Jesse Phillips via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 04:48:11 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote: I did a translation of most of the code in the slides. http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/72b5cfcb72e4 I'm planning to transform it into blog post (or series). Right now it just has some scratch notes. Feel free to let me know everything I

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-28 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
Okay. That seriously got munged. Let's try that again... On Tue, 27 May 2014 06:42:41 -1000 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26m8hy/scott_meyers_dconf_2014_keynote_the_last_thing_d/

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-28 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, 28 May 2014 16:07:08 -0700 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: Some of the inconsistencies you mentioned and Brian mentioned in his talk are actually the result of consistencies. I know this is a bit of a difficult thing to wrap one's