Re: Tonight: Introduction to D at Codeaholics (HK)

2015-11-16 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/11/2015 9:37 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 17:30:07 UTC, Lionello Lunesu wrote: as being a semantic difference, with no difference in memory layout. One can be indexed meaningfully, the other can't.) Eh, indexing char[] is meaningful, you just need to know

Re: Tonight: Introduction to D at Codeaholics (HK)

2015-11-16 Thread Marco Leise via Digitalmars-d-announce
Am Thu, 12 Nov 2015 01:30:06 +0800 schrieb Lionello Lunesu : > * Why doesn't D explicitly specify the exceptions that can be thrown? > (To which I answered that I never saw the point in Java and only found > it tedious. This did not convince the person.) Maybe

Tonight: Introduction to D at Codeaholics (HK)

2015-11-11 Thread Lionello Lunesu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Sorry for the short notice, but I'll be giving an introduction to D at this month's Codeaholics meetup. Drop by if you happen to be in Hong Kong! More info here (no need for RSVP): http://www.meetup.com/Codeaholics/events/226177740/ 7pm - 9pm CoCoon 3/F, Citicorp Centre, 18 Whitfield Road,

Re: Tonight: Introduction to D at Codeaholics (HK)

2015-11-11 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/11/2015 01:19 AM, Lionello Lunesu wrote: an introduction to D at this month's Codeaholics meetup Can you share your slides please... within the next 12 hours or so... before some of us give a similar talk... :) Ali

Re: Tonight: Introduction to D at Codeaholics (HK)

2015-11-11 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 17:30:07 UTC, Lionello Lunesu wrote: as being a semantic difference, with no difference in memory layout. One can be indexed meaningfully, the other can't.) Eh, indexing char[] is meaningful, you just need to know what that meaning is...

Re: Tonight: Introduction to D at Codeaholics (HK)

2015-11-11 Thread Lionello Lunesu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/11/15 23:34, Walter Bright wrote: On 11/11/2015 3:03 AM, Lionello Lunesu wrote: Will share how it's received in an hour ;) This is great! How did it go? Actually went much better than expected! Very engaging crowd, with good questions. I think the way I positioned D was being "just

Re: Tonight: Introduction to D at Codeaholics (HK)

2015-11-11 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/11/2015 3:03 AM, Lionello Lunesu wrote: Will share how it's received in an hour ;) This is great! How did it go?

Re: Tonight: Introduction to D at Codeaholics (HK)

2015-11-11 Thread Lionello Lunesu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/11/15 18:30, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 11/11/2015 01:19 AM, Lionello Lunesu wrote: an introduction to D at this month's Codeaholics meetup Can you share your slides please... within the next 12 hours or so... before some of us give a similar talk... :) Ali Sure thing:

Re: Tonight: Introduction to D at Codeaholics (HK)

2015-11-11 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 17:30:07 UTC, Lionello Lunesu wrote: * Can I create an array of shared ints (as opposed to a shared array of ints)? I said that one could by using shared(int)[], although I have yet to try this myself. Should totally work. Imagine thread-local slices from