Re: What Mike thinks

2020-09-17 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 20:13:23 UTC, Cym13 wrote: On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 13:45:16 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: What Mike thinks appears nowhere in my post :-) That's a bit sad. I understand that in your position it may be hard to express a personnal opinion but I think

Re: DIP 1030-- Named Arguments--Formal Assessment

2020-09-17 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 9/17/2020 6:42 AM, Jean-Louis Leroy wrote: That being said, does the new feature imply any change in the *parameters* themselves? No. I.e. are there changes in the way the function is defined, No. not only in the way it is called? It only affects calling syntax in providing an

Re: DIP 1030-- Named Arguments--Formal Assessment

2020-09-17 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 9/17/20 8:58 AM, Mike Parker wrote: So they decided that a new `std.traits` template and a corresponding `__traits` option are needed which expand into the exact function signature of another function. This, sounds great. I'd love to see the specifics for this. Also, I am very much

Re: DIP 1030-- Named Arguments--Formal Assessment

2020-09-17 Thread aberba via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 12:58:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: DIP 1030, "Named Arguments", has been accepted. During the assessment, Walter and Atila had a discussion regarding this particular criticism: [...] Calls for celebration... who's in?

What Mike thinks

2020-09-17 Thread Cym13 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 13:45:16 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: What Mike thinks appears nowhere in my post :-) That's a bit sad. I understand that in your position it may be hard to express a personnal opinion but I think anyone should get the opportunity to do so. Would you like, in no

Re: DIP 1030-- Named Arguments--Formal Assessment

2020-09-17 Thread angel via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 12:58:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: DIP 1030, "Named Arguments", has been accepted. I would really want to see tuples ...

Re: DIP 1030-- Named Arguments--Formal Assessment

2020-09-17 Thread Jean-Louis Leroy via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 13:45:16 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 13:42:47 UTC, Jean-Louis Leroy wrote: this point I have some hope that the DIP is not damaging in the way Mike thinks. What Mike thinks appears nowhere in my post :-) OK, s/thinks/reports/

Re: DIP 1030-- Named Arguments--Formal Assessment

2020-09-17 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 13:42:47 UTC, Jean-Louis Leroy wrote: this point I have some hope that the DIP is not damaging in the way Mike thinks. What Mike thinks appears nowhere in my post :-)

Re: DIP 1030-- Named Arguments--Formal Assessment

2020-09-17 Thread Jean-Louis Leroy via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 13:23:38 UTC, Jean-Louis Leroy wrote: Actually, Parameters!origFun will carry storage classes, UDAs, etc for all the parameters. And Parameters!origFun[0..1] (note the two dots) will carry everything about the first parameter. The trouble begins when, for some

Re: DIP 1030-- Named Arguments--Formal Assessment

2020-09-17 Thread Jean-Louis Leroy via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 12:58:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: DIP 1030, "Named Arguments", has been accepted. During the assessment, Walter and Atila had a discussion regarding this particular criticism:

Re: DIP 1030-- Named Arguments--Formal Assessment

2020-09-17 Thread 12345swordy via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 12:59:05 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 12:58:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: DIP 1030, "Named Arguments", has been accepted. https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/accepted/DIP1030.md YES, YES, YES, I had argue in favor of

DIP 1030-- Named Arguments--Formal Assessment

2020-09-17 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
DIP 1030, "Named Arguments", has been accepted. During the assessment, Walter and Atila had a discussion regarding this particular criticism: https://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.1117.1581368593.31109.digitalmar...@puremagic.com "Named arguments breaks this very important pattern: auto

Re: DIP 1030-- Named Arguments--Formal Assessment

2020-09-17 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 12:58:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: DIP 1030, "Named Arguments", has been accepted. https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/accepted/DIP1030.md

Re: Beta 2.094.0

2020-09-17 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 16 September 2020 at 18:52:23 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2020-09-16 19:20, mw wrote: Why it's deprecated? can we revive it? It was deprecated because it's a bad idea to not lock versions. Using `~master` would fetch the latest code from the "master" branch when compiling.