Re: DIP 1000--Scoped Pointers--Superseded

2019-03-12 Thread Chris M. via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 7 March 2019 at 11:30:01 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: As most of you surely know, DIP 1000, "Scoped Pointers", has been sitting in the DIP queue with the Draft status for ages and was significantly out of sync with the implementation. When I first took over as DIP Manager, the initial

Re: DIP 1015--Deprecation of Implicit Conversion of Int. & Char. Literals to bool--Formal Assement

2018-11-13 Thread Chris M. via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 12 November 2018 at 09:45:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: DIP 1015, "Deprecation and removal of implicit conversion from integer and character literals to bool, has been rejected, primarily on the grounds that it is factually incorrect in treating bool as a type distinct from other

Re: DIP 1015--Deprecation of Implicit Conversion of Int. & Char. Literals to bool--Formal Assement

2018-11-13 Thread Chris M. via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 13 November 2018 at 16:26:55 UTC, Chris M. wrote: On Monday, 12 November 2018 at 09:45:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: [...] I was going to write something up about how you can't do arithmetic on bool types therefore they aren't integral, but I tested and realized D allows this (i.e.

Re: libfirm-d - D bindings of Firm, a compiler IR based on the SSA form

2018-07-05 Thread Chris M. via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 July 2018 at 01:11:58 UTC, Basile B. wrote: On Thursday, 5 July 2018 at 00:00:07 UTC, Chris M. wrote: On Sunday, 1 July 2018 at 12:04:06 UTC, Basile B. wrote: [...] Very nice, I remember checking this one out a while back. I don't see the files from the ADT module though, was

Re: libfirm-d - D bindings of Firm, a compiler IR based on the SSA form

2018-07-04 Thread Chris M. via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 1 July 2018 at 12:04:06 UTC, Basile B. wrote: I've recently ported libfirm to D. This nice C library, developed at the Karlsruhe university, allows to build compiler back-ends, using the SSA intermediate representation. In theory it could even be used to make a new D compiler

Re: I have a plan.. I really DO

2018-07-03 Thread Chris M. via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 07:03:52 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: I never ever (I think) did something provocative, something to finally see: - who in the community WANTS D language to succeed? - who are just these funny “people” let’s call th this, that are I don’t know “just hang around”

Re: Beta 2.080.0

2018-04-23 Thread Chris M. via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 17 April 2018 at 17:53:22 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.080.0 release, ♥ to the 65 contributors for this release. http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.080.0.html As usual please report any bugs at

Re: Release D 2.079.0

2018-03-05 Thread Chris M. via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 01:50:25 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.079.0. This release comes with experimental `@nogc` exception throwing (-dip1008), a lazily initialized GC, better support for minimal runtimes, and an experimental Windows toolchain based on the lld linker