Re: bool (was DConf 2019 AGM Livestream)

2019-05-14 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/14/2019 6:34 PM, Mike Franklin wrote: If bool is clowny, and someone's willing to do something about it, why discourage them from doing so? Because core language changes necessarily consume a lot of other peoples' time, not just yours. This extends well beyond just the core developers -

Re: bool (was DConf 2019 AGM Livestream)

2019-05-14 Thread Mike Franklin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 15 May 2019 at 01:15:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: That we even discuss just how bad bool is while we have no done deals for safety, reference counting, shared, package distribution/versioning, pay-as-you-go runtime, collections, ..., is a fascinating puzzle. It can all

Re: bool (was DConf 2019 AGM Livestream)

2019-05-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/14/19 2:00 AM, Mike Franklin wrote: On Wednesday, 15 May 2019 at 00:23:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: There are many clowny things in D, of which bool is at best somewhere beyond the radar. I suggest investing time * expertise in the larger ones. Once again, I disagree with what

Re: bool (was DConf 2019 AGM Livestream)

2019-05-14 Thread Mike Franklin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 15 May 2019 at 00:23:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: There are many clowny things in D, of which bool is at best somewhere beyond the radar. I suggest investing time * expertise in the larger ones. Once again, I disagree with what you think is important. `bool` is a

Re: bool (was DConf 2019 AGM Livestream)

2019-05-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/14/19 8:47 PM, Mike Franklin wrote: On Tuesday, 14 May 2019 at 15:40:19 UTC, Kagamin wrote: On Sunday, 12 May 2019 at 06:27:21 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: All this effort strongly implies that there's no such thing as a satisfactory bool type *in languages which conflate

Re: bool (was DConf 2019 AGM Livestream)

2019-05-14 Thread Mike Franklin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 14 May 2019 at 15:40:19 UTC, Kagamin wrote: On Sunday, 12 May 2019 at 06:27:21 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: All this effort strongly implies that there's no such thing as a satisfactory bool type *in languages which conflate booleans with integers* FWIW I write C# for

Re: bool (was DConf 2019 AGM Livestream)

2019-05-14 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 12 May 2019 at 06:27:21 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: All this effort strongly implies that there's no such thing as a satisfactory bool type *in languages which conflate booleans with integers* FWIW I write C# for food and to me D bool is better than C# bool. Didn't

Re: DConf 2019 Slides

2019-05-14 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 13 May 2019 at 22:36:13 UTC, John Carter wrote: On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 at 08:50:15 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Jens Mueller is speaking after Walter. His slides can be found here: Thanks for what you are doing here, I have looked at them all! Is there a video and/or slides for