Re: D IDE Coedit - version 3, update 3 released

On Friday, 14 July 2017 at 06:10:08 UTC, Basile B. wrote: Better integration of D-Scanner. D-Scanner binary is itself included from now, in addition to DCD. See https://github.com/BBasile/Coedit/releases/tag/3_update_3 for the download links and a complete changelog. update 4 is available

Re: Article: Writing Julia style multiple dispatch code in D

On Friday, 25 August 2017 at 00:35:24 UTC, jmh530 wrote: What you seem concerned about here is how to produce a meaningful error message for distribution that you do not have implementations for. A slightly more elegant solution would be to pack the structs into an AliasSeq and then use

Re: Article: Writing Julia style multiple dispatch code in D

On Thursday, 24 August 2017 at 23:50:21 UTC, data pulverizer wrote: ``` double density(D: UnivariateDistribution!Discrete, U = getVariateType!D, T = GetDistributionParameterType!D)(D d, U x) if(!is(D == Poisson!T)) { assert(false, "density function unimplemented for this distribution: "

Re: D as a Better C

On Thursday, 24 August 2017 at 19:21:31 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 8/24/2017 11:56 AM, Walter Bright wrote: I find -betterC to be somewhat of a copout for avoiding the hard work of improving D's implementation. On the contrary, I view it as providing motivation for dealing with those

Re: D as a Better C

On Thursday, 24 August 2017 at 18:26:37 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: For instance, a D project targeting STM board, makes heavy use of classes and templates, resultant code segment is 3k. https://github.com/JinShil/stm32f42_discovery_demo#the-good To be fair, though, the above-mentioned project

Re: Article: Writing Julia style multiple dispatch code in D

On Thursday, 24 August 2017 at 21:13:10 UTC, jmh530 wrote: On UDAs, at least in the current implementation, I think that the actual issue you are trying to address is to force the type in the distribution to be convertible to double in the continuous case and convertible to long in the

Re: D as a Better C

On Thursday, 24 August 2017 at 18:56:25 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: There is a PR to make it only on demand, https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6561 but it is mired in problems that are not in the D test suite and for which no test cases exist. C++ compilers also have a switch, like

Re: Visual Studio Code code-d serve-d beta release

On Thursday, 24 August 2017 at 08:21:41 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi wrote: On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 at 20:10:01 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote: [...] Can you check? If I want to build it, what repo and revision should I use? [...] git clone https://github.com/Pure-D/serve-d.git cd serve-d dub build

Re: Article: Writing Julia style multiple dispatch code in D

On Thursday, 24 August 2017 at 20:11:32 UTC, data pulverizer wrote: Thanks. I think most of that is down to D's nice syntax and how it easily and clearly emulates Julia. I think that there is certainly more to say on this especially around strategies of how represent concrete types. David

Re: Article: Writing Julia style multiple dispatch code in D

On Thursday, 24 August 2017 at 18:16:21 UTC, jmh530 wrote: I think at one point I had actually suggested that dstats or something be re-written in a Julia-like way (before I realized how much work that would be!). It looks very pretty. Thanks. I think most of that is down to D's nice syntax

Re: Beta 2.076.0

On Friday, 18 August 2017 at 12:58:18 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: First beta for the 2.076.0 release. This release comes with various phobos additions and lots of improvements for -betterC (changelog entry upcoming). http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta

Re: D as a Better C

On 8/24/2017 11:56 AM, Walter Bright wrote: I find -betterC to be somewhat of a copout for avoiding the hard work of improving D's implementation. On the contrary, I view it as providing motivation for dealing with those issues. The PR above is stalled for lack of motivation. -betterC also

Re: D as a Better C

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > Not a better C, but intermediate D has small footprint for me too. What is "intermediate D"? -Parke > 7.5kb totext.exe (encodes stdin to base64 and writes to stdout) - wrote it >

Re: D as a Better C

On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 at 13:12:04 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: To coincide with the improvements to -betterC in the upcoming DMD 2.076, Walter has published a new article on the D blog about what it is and why to use it. A fun read. And I'm personally happy to see the love this feature is

Re: D as a Better C

On 8/23/2017 5:35 PM, Michael V. Franklin wrote: Consider this:  Rust doesn't need a special switch to make it interoperable with C.  What's wrong with D's implementation that requires such things?  Granted, D is not Rust, but D's implementation could be improved to make it more competitive

Re: D as a Better C

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 08:13:29PM +0200, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: [...] > The GDC camp concurs with the sentiment of betterC being a waste of > time. My particular stance on the matter is that it should not be an > all or nothing switch, granular control is fine. The

Re: Article: Writing Julia style multiple dispatch code in D

On Thursday, 24 August 2017 at 17:20:20 UTC, data pulverizer wrote: In any case, Jean-Louis Leroy did some magic recently to support multiple dynamic dispatch in D. :) http://forum.dlang.org/post/cigbfrgipbokyetsk...@forum.dlang.org I haven't seen this. I'll have to get back to you when I

Re: Article: Writing Julia style multiple dispatch code in D

On Thursday, 24 August 2017 at 16:10:32 UTC, data pulverizer wrote: Hi all, I have written an article about writing Julia style multiple dispatch code in D (https://github.com/dataPulverizer/dispatch-it-like-julia). I am hoping that it is appropriate for the D blog. Reviews please. Many

Re: D as a Better C

On 23 August 2017 at 19:44, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Wednesday, August 23, 2017 13:12:04 Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d- > announce wrote: >> To coincide with the improvements to -betterC in the upcoming DMD >> 2.076, Walter has

Re: Article: Writing Julia style multiple dispatch code in D

On Thursday, 24 August 2017 at 17:01:38 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: This works only with compile-time dispatch, right? Yes ... Does Julia support dynamic multiple dispatch? Okay Julia is my second favourite language next to D and one of it's cool features is that even though it is a dynamic

Re: D as a Better C

On Thursday, 24 August 2017 at 03:31:02 UTC, Swoorup Joshi wrote: On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 at 17:44:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Wednesday, August 23, 2017 13:12:04 Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: [...] I confess that I tend to think of betterC as a waste of time.

Re: Article: Writing Julia style multiple dispatch code in D

On Thursday, 24 August 2017 at 16:41:54 UTC, David Gileadi wrote: Very interesting! Thank you I have a couple suggestions: for newbies like me, it would be nice to include a short explanation of multiple dispatch, and maybe a link to a longer description. Wikipedia's description of

Re: Article: Writing Julia style multiple dispatch code in D

On 08/24/2017 09:10 AM, data pulverizer wrote: Hi all, I have written an article about writing Julia style multiple dispatch code in D (https://github.com/dataPulverizer/dispatch-it-like-julia). I am hoping that it is appropriate for the D blog. Reviews please. Many Thanks! This works only

Re: Article: Writing Julia style multiple dispatch code in D

On 8/24/17 9:10 AM, data pulverizer wrote: Hi all, I have written an article about writing Julia style multiple dispatch code in D (https://github.com/dataPulverizer/dispatch-it-like-julia). I am hoping that it is appropriate for the D blog. Reviews please. Many Thanks! Very interesting!

Article: Writing Julia style multiple dispatch code in D

Hi all, I have written an article about writing Julia style multiple dispatch code in D (https://github.com/dataPulverizer/dispatch-it-like-julia). I am hoping that it is appropriate for the D blog. Reviews please. Many Thanks!

Re: D as a Better C

On 2017-08-24 02:55, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: One thing that would help is if things like TypeInfo, ModuleInfo, etc., are only emitted on-demand I think that would be quite difficult if we want to keep all the existing features. Combining separate compilation, runtime

Re: D as a Better C

On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 at 17:43:27 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I thought "closure" means allocating the stack onto the heap so you can return the delegate with its context intact. I understood closure as capture of variables from external context. They are divided into upward

Re: D as a Better C

On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 at 22:45:27 UTC, sarn wrote: I haven't tried the latest iteration of betterC yet, but the longstanding problem is that the compiler generates TypeInfo instances for structs LDC doesn't generate TypeInfo for structs until it's required for some features like array

Re: Visual Studio Code code-d serve-d beta release

On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 at 20:10:01 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote: On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 at 15:41:02 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi wrote: On Saturday, 5 August 2017 at 22:43:31 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote: [...] It seems that under macOS, the linux executable is used, with a fresh install...