Re: Mono-D v0.4.8

2013-01-15 Thread timotheecour
and another bug: (I've updated to the correct stable version as per your instructions, since my last post included). Not sure how to reproduce this bug but it just happened after switching back to MD (i'm on OSX): A fatal error has occurred Details of this error have been automatically sent

Re: Mono-D v0.4.8

2013-01-15 Thread timotheecour
A) Awesome, again these problems - which MD version do you've got installed? 3.0.6 stable? Then please switch to the mono-d.alexanderbothe.com/stableMD repository 3.1.0 beta? Then switch to the mono-d.alexanderbothe.com repo. OK, that made it work. Very low priority, but maybe it's possible to

Re: Mono-D v0.4.8

2013-01-15 Thread alex
On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 21:38:55 UTC, timotheecour wrote: On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 21:12:21 UTC, alex wrote: On Saturday, 12 January 2013 at 14:28:46 UTC, alex wrote: Hi everyone, Just released a new version - For info, see http://mono-d.alexanderbothe.com Cheers, Alex Got to

Wed night meeting for Seattle D-heads

2013-01-15 Thread Walter Bright
A small group of us like to meet once a month for the NWCPP meetings at Microsoft, and then we go out for beers and argue about D, programming, movies, and any other idiot things that come to mind. I suspect that there may be a few of you in the area who may not know about this, so feel free t

Re: Mono-D v0.4.8

2013-01-15 Thread F i L
Nice work, Alex, but something broke my GDB debugger support... :-\ I'm not sure if it's something specific to Arch Linux or not, so can anyone confirm that their Mono-D is work with GDB fine? Mine reports: warning: Could not load shared library symbols for linux-vdso.so.1.\nDo you need \"set

Re: A look at the D programming language by Ferdynand Górski

2013-01-15 Thread Rob T
On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 10:22:20 UTC, Chris wrote: A language such as C++ seems like a bad fit for a scripting language because of it's complexity and the difficultly with parsing through it. Also a scripted language probably should not have low level access that is provided by languages

Re: A look at the D programming language by Ferdynand Górski

2013-01-15 Thread Rob T
On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 20:02:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/14/2013 10:30 PM, Rob T wrote: A really important advantage that scripting languages provides that D does not currently provide, is direct runtime interpretation of the language. This is very important for the use cases of s

Re: A look at the D programming language by Ferdynand Górski

2013-01-15 Thread pjmlp
On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 20:07:49 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/15/2013 8:37 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote: Then I started working in multi-site projects with developers from all types of backgrounds, and understood the value of a consistent project code formatting. I agree with the value as y

Re: cgdb 0.6.7 release - with D syntax highlight support.

2013-01-15 Thread Iain Buclaw
On 15 January 2013 22:09, timotheecour wrote: > Could you please provide some more information for usage / installation? > > on osx I was able to install it with: > brew install readline > ./configure --with-readline=/usr/local/**homebrew/Cellar/readline/6.2.4 > > 1) however, running a simple hel

Re: cgdb 0.6.7 release - with D syntax highlight support.

2013-01-15 Thread timotheecour
Could you please provide some more information for usage / installation? on osx I was able to install it with: brew install readline ./configure --with-readline=/usr/local/homebrew/Cellar/readline/6.2.4 1) however, running a simple hello world with rdmd --build-only -g main and then cgdb ./m

Re: Mono-D v0.4.8

2013-01-15 Thread timotheecour
On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 21:12:21 UTC, alex wrote: On Saturday, 12 January 2013 at 14:28:46 UTC, alex wrote: Hi everyone, Just released a new version - For info, see http://mono-d.alexanderbothe.com Cheers, Alex Got to bump myself up again. Released a new version - this time with imp

Re: Mono-D v0.4.8

2013-01-15 Thread alex
On Saturday, 12 January 2013 at 14:28:46 UTC, alex wrote: Hi everyone, Just released a new version - For info, see http://mono-d.alexanderbothe.com Cheers, Alex Got to bump myself up again. Released a new version - this time with improved code indentation.

Re: A look at the D programming language by Ferdynand Górski

2013-01-15 Thread Chris
class: def: for: if: You could call it "south west" code. Recte: South east code, of course! Then I started working in multi-site projects with developers from all types of backgrounds, and understood the value of a consistent project code formatting. -- Paulo In

Re: A look at the D programming language by Ferdynand Górski

2013-01-15 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/15/2013 4:09 AM, bearophile wrote: One common indentation-related bug is caused by relying on the indentation to understand code, while the curly brace language compiler ignores what you were seeing and only sees the braces. I have seen many cases of delayed code understanding caused by that

Re: A look at the D programming language by Ferdynand Górski

2013-01-15 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/15/2013 8:37 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote: Then I started working in multi-site projects with developers from all types of backgrounds, and understood the value of a consistent project code formatting. I agree with the value as you say, but as I posted previously I think consistent formatting is

Re: A look at the D programming language by Ferdynand Górski

2013-01-15 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/14/2013 10:30 PM, Rob T wrote: A really important advantage that scripting languages provides that D does not currently provide, is direct runtime interpretation of the language. This is very important for the use cases of script languages such as Ruby and PHP, because often they are used fo

Re: DPaste ain't going anywhere

2013-01-15 Thread Simen Kjaeraas
On 2013-01-15, 20:29, Jesse Phillips wrote: On Monday, 14 January 2013 at 09:34:50 UTC, nazriel wrote: Hello! I would love to say that it was just 1 April joke that Dpaste is going down but I can't. Things got complicated. I couldn't afford extending domain because I began to run low on mo

[OT] Re: DPaste ain't going anywhere

2013-01-15 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:34:48 +0100 "nazriel" wrote: > > Thanks to Vladimir Panteleev aka CyberShadow, who donated money > in order to extended domain. Things need a bit of time in order > to make everything work, of course banks being the biggest > bottleneck as usually. For those who can't li

Re: DPaste ain't going anywhere

2013-01-15 Thread Jesse Phillips
On Monday, 14 January 2013 at 09:34:50 UTC, nazriel wrote: Hello! I would love to say that it was just 1 April joke that Dpaste is going down but I can't. Things got complicated. I couldn't afford extending domain because I began to run low on money. Just a thought paste.dlang.org?

Re: A look at the D programming language by Ferdynand Górski

2013-01-15 Thread Paulo Pinto
On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 13:43:12 UTC, Chris wrote: On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 12:36:42 UTC, bearophile wrote: Chris: Nested for loops with if-statements can be hard on the eye in Python, because you have to go back an double check on which level you actually are If you use the st

Re: A look at the D programming language by Ferdynand Górski

2013-01-15 Thread Chris
On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 12:36:42 UTC, bearophile wrote: Chris: Nested for loops with if-statements can be hard on the eye in Python, because you have to go back an double check on which level you actually are If you use the standard 4 spaces indentations and you don't have ten indent

Re: A look at the D programming language by Ferdynand Górski

2013-01-15 Thread Paulo Pinto
On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 12:36:42 UTC, bearophile wrote: Chris: Nested for loops with if-statements can be hard on the eye in Python, because you have to go back an double check on which level you actually are If you use the standard 4 spaces indentations and you don't have ten indent

Re: A look at the D programming language by Ferdynand Górski

2013-01-15 Thread bearophile
Chris: Nested for loops with if-statements can be hard on the eye in Python, because you have to go back an double check on which level you actually are If you use the standard 4 spaces indentations and you don't have ten indentation levels this problem is not common. Some persons also avoi

Re: A look at the D programming language by Ferdynand Górski

2013-01-15 Thread David
> That's not my experience. Nested for loops with if-statements can be > hard on the eye in Python, because you have to go back an double check > on which level you actually are and the fact that one missing white > space (a typo after deleting a line) screws up the whole script is just > annoying.

Re: A look at the D programming language by Ferdynand Górski

2013-01-15 Thread David
Am 15.01.2013 13:23, schrieb David: >> That's not my experience. Nested for loops with if-statements can be >> hard on the eye in Python, because you have to go back an double check >> on which level you actually are and the fact that one missing white >> space (a typo after deleting a line) screws

Re: A look at the D programming language by Ferdynand Górski

2013-01-15 Thread Chris
On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 12:09:21 UTC, bearophile wrote: 1100110: Thats so funny I forgot to laugh. One common indentation-related bug is caused by relying on the indentation to understand code, while the curly brace language compiler ignores what you were seeing and only sees the bra

Re: A look at the D programming language by Ferdynand Górski

2013-01-15 Thread Chris
On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 11:43:58 UTC, David wrote: Stereotypes of people who never actually used it, other than tried it and gave up because they didn't configure their editor correctly and blaming python for it. I bet my last indentation error was more than two years ago. Not a st

Re: A look at the D programming language by Ferdynand Górski

2013-01-15 Thread bearophile
1100110: Thats so funny I forgot to laugh. One common indentation-related bug is caused by relying on the indentation to understand code, while the curly brace language compiler ignores what you were seeing and only sees the braces. I have seen many cases of delayed code understanding cause

Re: A look at the D programming language by Ferdynand Górski

2013-01-15 Thread 1100110
On 01/15/2013 05:00 AM, bearophile wrote: Chris: or indentation (t)errors (Python) In practice Python usually decreases the number of indentation-related bugs, Thats so funny I forgot to laugh.

Re: A look at the D programming language by Ferdynand Górski

2013-01-15 Thread David
> Maybe it does, but it's annoying while you are writing it, and to be > honest, indentation bugs are far and few between, in my experience, if > you use the curly braces consistently. Only you have more freedom. What > I was referring to was the annoying Python message "Wrong indentation in > line

Re: A look at the D programming language by Ferdynand Górski

2013-01-15 Thread Chris
On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 11:00:29 UTC, bearophile wrote: Chris: or indentation (t)errors (Python) In practice Python usually decreases the number of indentation-related bugs, even considering the "dangling else" warning we have added to D, because indentation and block nesting are th

Re: A look at the D programming language by Ferdynand Górski

2013-01-15 Thread bearophile
Chris: or indentation (t)errors (Python) In practice Python usually decreases the number of indentation-related bugs, even considering the "dangling else" warning we have added to D, because indentation and block nesting are the same thing, it's more DRY :-) Bye, bearophile

Re: A look at the D programming language by Ferdynand Górski

2013-01-15 Thread Chris
On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 06:30:33 UTC, Rob T wrote: A really important advantage that scripting languages provides that D does not currently provide, is direct runtime interpretation of the language. This is very important for the use cases of script languages such as Ruby and PHP, becau