DConf 2019 Early-Bird Registration Now Open

2019-01-28 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I've published a post on the blog with updates about DConf 2019 registrations, the invited keynote speaker, the Symmetry Autumn of Code finalist, and the previously announced fundraiser for a new forum server. Early-bird registrations are $340 again this year and will remain available until

Re: New Fundraiser: D Forums Server

2019-01-28 Thread Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 January 2019 at 14:31:03 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Monday, 28 January 2019 at 14:28:52 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote: I just retried and it seams to work, did I checked the anonymous flag? Seams so, or will the update here:

Re: New Fundraiser: D Forums Server

2019-01-28 Thread Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 January 2019 at 14:49:15 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Monday, 28 January 2019 at 14:37:48 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote: On Monday, 28 January 2019 at 14:31:03 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Before I made the donation ($25) the total was at $200 now it is at $225, looks ok, or was

Re: New Fundraiser: D Forums Server

2019-01-28 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 January 2019 at 14:28:52 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote: I just retried and it seams to work, did I checked the anonymous flag? Seams so, or will the update here: https://www.flipcause.com/widget/widget_home/NDkzNjc=#/activity/NDkzNjc= Take a while? Regards mt. I haven't

Re: New Fundraiser: D Forums Server

2019-01-28 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 January 2019 at 14:37:48 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote: On Monday, 28 January 2019 at 14:31:03 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Before I made the donation ($25) the total was at $200 now it is at $225, looks ok, or was there an other donation (via paypal) you added manually? I

Re: New Fundraiser: D Forums Server

2019-01-28 Thread Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 January 2019 at 13:37:39 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Monday, 28 January 2019 at 09:22:33 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote: I tried it twice via flipcause but it ended with: Looks like your session has expired! You will be redirected to the Home page. Please take a look!

Re: New Fundraiser: D Forums Server

2019-01-28 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 January 2019 at 09:22:33 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote: I tried it twice via flipcause but it ended with: Looks like your session has expired! You will be redirected to the Home page. Please take a look! Sorry, Martin, but I'm unable to reproduce this at all. I've

Re: DIP 1016--ref T accepts r-values--Formal Assessment

2019-01-28 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/24/19 3:01 PM, kinke wrote: On Thursday, 24 January 2019 at 09:49:14 UTC, Manu wrote: We discussed and concluded that one mechanism to mitigate this issue was already readily available, and it's just that 'out' gains a much greater sense of identity (which is actually a positive

Re: DIP 1016--ref T accepts r-values--Formal Assessment

2019-01-28 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/24/19 2:18 AM, Mike Parker wrote: Walter and Andrei have declined to accept DIP 1016, "ref T accepts r-values", on the grounds that it has two fundamental flaws that would open holes in the language. They are not opposed to the feature in principle and suggested that a proposal that

Re: DIP 1016--ref T accepts r-values--Formal Assessment

2019-01-28 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/28/19 1:00 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/24/19 3:01 PM, kinke wrote: On Thursday, 24 January 2019 at 09:49:14 UTC, Manu wrote: We discussed and concluded that one mechanism to mitigate this issue was already readily available, and it's just that 'out' gains a much greater sense of

Re: New Fundraiser: D Forums Server

2019-01-28 Thread Johannes Loher via Digitalmars-d-announce
Am 25.01.19 um 18:01 schrieb Mike Parker: > One of the options we were considering for a new fundraising campaign > was raising money for Vladimir's continuing efforts on the forums. He's > been maintaining them, and covering the server, without any compensation > since the beginning. The recent

Re: DConf 2019 Early-Bird Registration Now Open

2019-01-28 Thread Johannes Loher via Digitalmars-d-announce
Am 28.01.19 um 15:07 schrieb Mike Parker: > I've published a post on the blog with updates about DConf 2019 > registrations, the invited keynote speaker, the Symmetry Autumn of Code > finalist, and the previously announced fundraiser for a new forum server. > > Early-bird registrations are $340

Re: DIP 1016--ref T accepts r-values--Formal Assessment

2019-01-28 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/28/19 2:58 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: TL;DR: it could be argued that the only dangerous conversions are lvalue -> temp rvalue -> ref, so only disable those. The conversion rvalue -> temp rvalue -> ref is not dangerous because the starting value on the caller side could not be

Re: DIP 1016--ref T accepts r-values--Formal Assessment

2019-01-28 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/28/19 5:23 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I already see this kind of bug all the time with alias this. Can you please post more detail? It may be of relevance to future work.

Re: DConf 2019 Early-Bird Registration Now Open

2019-01-28 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 January 2019 at 19:28:44 UTC, Johannes Loher wrote: Great news! I just registered and after the registration was completed, the website said "Thanks! Your request was processed successfully. We look forward to seeing you in Munich!". This should probably be updated to

Re: New Fundraiser: D Forums Server

2019-01-28 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 January 2019 at 20:00:53 UTC, Johannes Loher wrote: I would like to donate for this, but flipcause does not seem to work for me at all: I tried to make the donation several times, but after entering all the details and payment details and clicking on "Finish", I either got a

Issues Donating or Registering for DConf via Flipcause

2019-01-28 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Flipcause released a major upgrade to their platform last week that unified several different components (donations, events, online stores, etc) into a single system they call Universal Checkout. I've just received an email informing me of two things: * there's a flood of support requests

Re: DIP 1016--ref T accepts r-values--Formal Assessment

2019-01-28 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/28/19 9:15 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/28/19 5:23 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I already see this kind of bug all the time with alias this. Can you please post more detail? It may be of relevance to future work. Any time you have the alias this, then you can get confused

Re: DIP 1016--ref T accepts r-values--Formal Assessment

2019-01-28 Thread Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:00 PM Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > > On 1/28/19 1:00 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > > On 1/24/19 3:01 PM, kinke wrote: > >> On Thursday, 24 January 2019 at 09:49:14 UTC, Manu wrote: > >>> We discussed and concluded that one mechanism to

Re: DIP 1016--ref T accepts r-values--Formal Assessment

2019-01-28 Thread Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 10:20 PM Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > > On 1/25/2019 7:44 PM, Manu wrote: > > I never said anything about 'rvalue references', > > The DIP mentions them several times in the "forum threads" section. I see you > want to distinguish the DIP from that; I

Re: New Fundraiser: D Forums Server

2019-01-28 Thread Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 25 January 2019 at 17:01:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: One of the options we were considering for a new fundraising campaign was raising money for Vladimir's continuing efforts on the forums. He's been maintaining them, and covering the server, without any compensation since the