Re: DIP 1021--Argument Ownership and Function Calls--Formal Assessment

2019-10-24 Thread Exil via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 23 October 2019 at 16:54:36 UTC, 12345swordy wrote: "“But D has a GC!”, I hear you exclaim. No body said that. Funny how you chose the simplest argument to argue against. Yes, but it’s also a systems programming language with value types and pointers, meaning that today, D

Re: DIP 1021--Argument Ownership and Function Calls--Formal Assessment

2019-10-23 Thread Exil via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 23 October 2019 at 04:53:55 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Wednesday, 23 October 2019 at 04:20:19 UTC, Exil wrote: it's a bad idea. Why have two community reviews? Those are made with the assumption that the DIP will actually change between the reviews. No, that's not the

Re: DIP 1021--Argument Ownership and Function Calls--Formal Assessment

2019-10-23 Thread Exil via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 23 October 2019 at 04:49:52 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Wednesday, 23 October 2019 at 04:20:19 UTC, Exil wrote: Should create a DIPW process then, duck the foundation and any formalities. Which stands for DIPWalter, which simply consists of a single step where a single topic

Re: DIP 1021--Argument Ownership and Function Calls--Formal Assessment

2019-10-23 Thread Exil via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 23 October 2019 at 15:10:23 UTC, 12345swordy wrote: On Wednesday, 23 October 2019 at 04:20:19 UTC, Exil wrote: Not to mention the problem is actually solved just by using the GC. The d language is marked as a system programming language. The GC is not going to cut it to a lot

Re: DIP 1021--Argument Ownership and Function Calls--Formal Assessment

2019-10-22 Thread Exil via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 23 October 2019 at 00:03:35 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Monday, October 21, 2019 6:59:21 AM MDT Exil via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > This proposal is one step toward a larger goal outlined in > the > > blog post ['Ownership and Borrowing in > D'](https:/

Re: DIP 1021--Argument Ownership and Function Calls--Formal Assessment

2019-10-21 Thread Exil via Digitalmars-d-announce
This proposal is one step toward a larger goal outlined in the blog post ['Ownership and Borrowing in D'](https://dlang.org/blog/2019/07/15/ownership-and-borrowing-in-d/). That's the only line that was added, no other changes were made to the core DIP from the first revision to the last. Big

Re: D GUI Framework (responsive grid teaser)

2019-05-24 Thread Exil via Digitalmars-d-announce
Is the source available anywhere? Would be interesting to look through unless this is close source?

Re: bool (was DConf 2019 AGM Livestream)

2019-05-12 Thread Exil via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 12 May 2019 at 10:58:49 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Bringing it up over and over again, like a perennial fight in a marriage, with the hope of finally convincing the spouse on the wrongness of their views - that all is wasted time. There's a bunch of big rocks to move. I take

Re: DConf 2019 AGM Livestream

2019-05-11 Thread Exil via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 11 May 2019 at 07:53:36 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Anyone interested in the AGM can watch it at the following link. You can leave feedback there, in IRC, or in Discord. https://youtu.be/cpTAtiboIDs Regarding the discussion of how bool is handled... It's a one bit integer so it