Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/23/18 6:57 AM, Martin Nowak wrote: On Monday, 19 February 2018 at 15:58:57 UTC, Joakim wrote: 17. Allow multiple selective imports from different modules in a single import statement Let me hopefully conclude this discussion :). We have an existing ambiguity in the language since at

Re: mysql-native v2.1.0-rc1: New features

2018-02-23 Thread aberba via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 22:15:37 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: An all-D MySQL/MariaDB client library: https://github.com/mysql-d/mysql-native == [...] That's a very useful feature. Will simplify some code. As well as additional tools for

mysql-native v2.1.0-rc1: New features

2018-02-23 Thread Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d-announce
An all-D MySQL/MariaDB client library: https://github.com/mysql-d/mysql-native == Tagged 'v2.1.0-rc1', release candidate for v2.1.0, which mainly adds a few new features, inlcuding greatly simplified shortcut syntax for prepared statements (with

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread Norm via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 10:48:10 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 09:48:33 UTC, Norm wrote: This import feature and surrounding discussion I couldn't care less about ... I actually spend far more time reading large chunks of code, than writing code, and I

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 23:46:02 UTC, Norm wrote: Well, D is already a compiled scripting language :) technically (and otherwise) that is not correct...thank god! lets keep it that way.

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 16:03:56 UTC, Aurélien Plazzotta wrote: Perhaps, we could use Backus-Naur notation, as it is already widely known into formal documents all over the globe, like the following: import std.stdio, std.whatever{this, that}, std.somethingelse, std.grr{wtf}; That

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 18:13:51 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote: On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 13:42:45 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 12:06:23 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote: Absolutely. D scripting is the trojan horse that enables introduction of it in hostile

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread zabruk70 via Digitalmars-d-announce
i don't understand whole theread. why all import must be written on one line? curent syntax very handy and readable.

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 24 February 2018 at 07:09:05 UTC, zabruk70 wrote: i don't understand whole theread. why all import must be written on one line? curent syntax very handy and readable. you must have understood the thread, cause you summarised it pretty well ;-)

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce
auto result = foo(), bar(); Doesn't look like it works. --- int f(int a){ return a; } int main() { int a=f(0),f(1); //doesn't compile return 0; } --- int f(int a){ return a; } int main() { int a; a=f(0),f(1); assert(a==1); //fails return 0; } ---

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 13:38:25 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 2/23/18 8:13 AM, jmh530 wrote: What if you have something like import std.stdio, std.conv : to, parse; and there is a module at the top-level named parse? Then you have to import it on a separate line, or import it

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/1282 github shows me just two changes in makefiles and nothing else, need to find where the code comes from.

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 17:47:08 UTC, Kagamin wrote: auto result = foo(), bar(); Doesn't look like it works. --- int f(int a){ return a; } int main() { int a=f(0),f(1); //doesn't compile return 0; } --- int f(int a){ return a; } int main() { int a; a=f(0),f(1);

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 00:05:59 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: The main use-case for craming multiple imports into a line is not libraries but scripting, examples, and maybe unit tests. Those are cases when selective imports shouldn't be used. experimental.scripting was introduced to reduce

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 01:02:59 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality, because this is certainly easier to grasp than https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/1282 (https://forum.dlang.org/post/mjsma6$196h$1...@digitalmars.com) If nobody opposes,

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread Aurélien Plazzotta via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 02:20:41 UTC, psychotyicRabbit wrote: On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 01:57:37 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Thursday, 22 February 2018 at 11:15:35 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: import std.rabbit [food, water], std.house, std.family [carer]; Also, D is pretty

Re: dxml 0.2.0 released

2018-02-23 Thread Jesse Phillips via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 05:36:51 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: dxml 0.2.0 has now been released. Documentation: http://jmdavisprog.com/docs/dxml/0.2.0/ Github: https://github.com/jmdavis/dxml/tree/v0.2.0 Dub: http://code.dlang.org/packages/dxml - Jonathan M Davis This is absolutely

Re: lld-link.exe [in: Re: Beta 2.079.0]

2018-02-23 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 18:13:01 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Monday, 19 February 2018 at 20:17:05 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: You also need to install VC++ 2015 redistributable to run lld-link.exe. The x86 one btw. Also [18510 – [Beta 2.079] lld-link.exe fails to open obj file in

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread Patrick Schluter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 13:42:45 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 12:06:23 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote: Absolutely. D scripting is the trojan horse that enables introduction of it in hostile environment. Runnable compiled source code is nice. scripting

d.godbolt.org now supports DMD

2018-02-23 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce
Thanks to the work of Rabs Rincon [1] DMD is now supported on https://d.godbolt.org A simple example of comparing DMD's object code with LDC's + GDC's output: https://godbolt.org/g/EQCTNy [1] https://github.com/mattgodbolt/compiler-explorer/issues/306

lld-link.exe [in: Re: Beta 2.079.0]

2018-02-23 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 19 February 2018 at 20:17:05 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: You also need to install VC++ 2015 redistributable to run lld-link.exe. Let's see if we can lift that requirement until the release. [18509 – [Beta 2.079] lld-link.exe needs

Re: lld-link.exe [in: Re: Beta 2.079.0]

2018-02-23 Thread Andre Pany via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 19:06:42 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 18:13:01 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Monday, 19 February 2018 at 20:17:05 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: You also need to install VC++ 2015 redistributable to run lld-link.exe. The x86 one btw. Also

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, February 23, 2018 10:57:21 Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 10:48:10 UTC, psychoticRabbit > > wrote: > > If D just wants to become a compiled scripting language...good > > luck to it. > > That's certainly not the goal, but as with every

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 11:57:05 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: But certainly anything in that direction requires time and research, which I don't have for that topic. Also new syntax would likely be met with strong resistance due to the amount of induced churn.

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 10:48:10 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: If D just wants to become a compiled scripting language...good luck to it. That's certainly not the goal, but as with every tool people become very familiar with, it's used creatively for things other than initially

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 19 February 2018 at 15:58:57 UTC, Joakim wrote: 17. Allow multiple selective imports from different modules in a single import statement Let me hopefully conclude this discussion :). We have an existing ambiguity in the language since at least dmd 1.0. This is unfortunate but

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread Patrick Schluter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 09:48:33 UTC, Norm wrote: [snip] On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 04:06:23 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: Third, making D more and more like a quick scripting/hacking language (by removing or hiding so called 'noise', is not a good idea in my opinion. That too

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2018-02-19 11:49, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.079.0 release, ♥ to the 77 contributors for this release. The following is a regression that breaks DWT: extern (C) void foo(int) { } extern (C) void foo(double) { } The above used to compile but now results

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, February 23, 2018 10:08:58 Mike Franklin via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 09:18:33 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: > > On 2018-02-19 11:49, Martin Nowak wrote: > >> Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.079.0 release, ♥ to > >> the 77 > >> contributors

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 09:48:33 UTC, Norm wrote: Ability to quickly script in D was a big selling point for D at my workplace, I'd say *the* feature that got uninterested developers listening and trying the language. Being able to replace their Python scripts with a fast native

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 09:48:33 UTC, Norm wrote: This import feature and surrounding discussion I couldn't care less about ... I actually spend far more time reading large chunks of code, than writing code, and I certainly do NOT want to spend extra time deciphering imports, due to

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread Norm via Digitalmars-d-announce
[snip] On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 04:06:23 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: Third, making D more and more like a quick scripting/hacking language (by removing or hiding so called 'noise', is not a good idea in my opinion. That too seemed to be a motivator for at some aspect of the change.

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread Mike Franklin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 09:18:33 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2018-02-19 11:49, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.079.0 release, ♥ to the 77 contributors for this release. The following is a regression that breaks DWT: extern (C) void foo(int) { } extern

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/23/18 8:13 AM, jmh530 wrote: On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 11:57:05 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: A newcomer to D could rightfully conclude that comma is a module separator and the following is the correct syntax to import multiple symbols.     import std.stdio, std.conv : to, std.conv :

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 12:06:23 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote: Absolutely. D scripting is the trojan horse that enables introduction of it in hostile environment. Runnable compiled source code is nice. scripting languages is reinventing computer science.. only really badly.

DConf 2018 Munich; The Venue

2018-02-23 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
A bit of info to help kick start sightseeing plans in Munich and plan your stay at the NH Munich Messe. Don't forget, the submission deadline is this weekend: Feb 25 at midnight AOE. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2018/02/23/dconf-2018-munich-the-venue/ Reddit:

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread aberba via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 03:26:11 UTC, Seb wrote: On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 03:20:22 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: compared to the current change in beta. FWIW the change is almost gone from the beta: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7939 Glad its *almost* gone. That change

[Maybe OT] Hashcode with Google

2018-02-23 Thread Andrea Fontana via Digitalmars-d-announce
It could be interesting if a D-team would win this :) tl;dr: Google gives a coding problem, you have to solve it. Any programming language is accepted. You have to register your team. Details: https://hashcode.withgoogle.com/overview.html Previous problems:

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread aberba via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 11:24:24 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Friday, February 23, 2018 10:57:21 Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 10:48:10 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: > If D just wants to become a compiled scripting > language...good

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 11:57:05 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: A newcomer to D could rightfully conclude that comma is a module separator and the following is the correct syntax to import multiple symbols. import std.stdio, std.conv : to, std.conv : parse; What if you have

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-23 Thread Paolo Invernizzi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 11:57:05 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Monday, 19 February 2018 at 15:58:57 UTC, Joakim wrote: Given the effort required for a language change, it's seductive to streamline seemingly small changes, but it certainly increases the risk of design mistakes, thanks

Re: [Maybe OT] Hashcode with Google

2018-02-23 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 14:07:03 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote: It could be interesting if a D-team would win this :) tl;dr: Google gives a coding problem, you have to solve it. Any programming language is accepted. You have to register your team. Details: