Re: Teaching D at a Russian University

2022-02-19 Thread matheus via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 20 February 2022 at 03:44:42 UTC, Paul Backus wrote: Yes, this is a perfectly correct use of "for" as a coordinating conjunction. [1] It may come across as a bit formal or old-fashioned, though—in normal speech, you'd usually use "since". [1]

Re: Teaching D at a Russian University

2022-02-19 Thread Paul Backus via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 19 February 2022 at 20:26:45 UTC, Elronnd wrote: On Saturday, 19 February 2022 at 17:33:07 UTC, matheus wrote: By the way English isn't my first language but I think there is a small typo: "In D, such nuances are fewer, for header files are not required." I think it's missing

Re: Teaching D at a Russian University

2022-02-19 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/19/2022 12:26 PM, Elronnd wrote: I think it is fine as is. So do I. I enjoy the unusual phrasings some ESL people use. For example, a long time ago in a circle of friends of mine one ESL person would say things like: "time for go" instead of "time to go" "make some shoppings"

Re: Teaching D at a Russian University

2022-02-19 Thread Elronnd via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 19 February 2022 at 17:33:07 UTC, matheus wrote: By the way English isn't my first language but I think there is a small typo: "In D, such nuances are fewer, for header files are not required." I think it's missing the word "example": "In D, such nuances are fewer, for example

Re: Teaching D at a Russian University

2022-02-19 Thread matheus via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 19 February 2022 at 15:10:25 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: ... Interesting article. And I think it would be nice if that teacher had taken a pool asking what they think after finishing with D vs C/C++ which they learned before. Oh and I'm curious about what compiler they're using,

Teaching D at a Russian University

2022-02-19 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
A while back, Grigorii Smorkalov shared on these forums [a blog post he had written] in Russian describing his experience teaching D at a Humanities university in Russia. He has since updated the post to cover the intervening years, and Georgy Markov translated it into English for the D blog.

Re: DIP 1035--@system Variables--Final Review Begins

2022-02-19 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 19 February 2022 at 12:46:34 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: On Saturday, 19 February 2022 at 12:30:03 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The Final Review for DIP 1035, "@nodiscard", has begun. Erratum: The Final Review for DIP 1035, "@system variables", has begun. Thanks.

Re: DIP 1035--@system Variables--Final Review Begins

2022-02-19 Thread Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 19 February 2022 at 12:30:03 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The Final Review for DIP 1035, "@nodiscard", has begun. Erratum: The Final Review for DIP 1035, "@system variables", has begun.

DIP 1035--@system Variables--Final Review Begins

2022-02-19 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The Final Review for DIP 1038, "@nodiscard", has begun. The Final Review is the last check to make sure everything is in good shape. Generally, we aren't looking for major revisions to the DIP unless someone notices something critical. This is a chance for any revisions made in the previous

SAOC 2021 Results

2022-02-19 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
SAOC 2021 ended on January 15th. Only two participants made it to the fourth milestone this year: Teodor Dutu (replace DRuntime hooks with templates) and Luís Ferreira (LLDB integration with D). We had an unusual result with from the judges this time. Two of them split, and the third couldn't