Re: Is this D or is it Javascript?

2013-07-05 Thread Rory McGuire
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 5:21 AM, Adam D. Ruppe destructiona...@gmail.comwrote: [snip] d rox. !!! this is AWESOME! Now one can use a mix of static and dynamic typing which is really nice with document based databases. Being able to script subsections of a website is also really interesting.

Re: NDC Oslo talk: Generic Programming Galore Using D

2013-07-05 Thread Justin Whear
On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 09:47:36 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Videos for my two NDC 2013 talks are now online. Generic Programming Galore using D at http://vimeo.com/68378925 and the HipHop Virtual Machine at http://vimeo.com/68383350. Andrei Reddit:

Re: Is this D or is it Javascript?

2013-07-05 Thread Rob T
There are many cases where you do not know in advance what type of data is being received through an interface to some other system. This happens with some databases, and with messaging systems, and if you are interfacing to any dynamically or weakly typed language, such as with js/json. I

Re: Is this D or is it Javascript?

2013-07-05 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
On Friday, 5 July 2013 at 22:51:57 UTC, Rob T wrote: I suppose i could to this c = var.get!(typeof(c)); Yeah, I did two things: int c = var.get!int; and int c; var v; v.putInto(c); [do] you think multiple alias this will solve the problem? Maybe, but that would still be limited to a list

Re: Is this D or is it Javascript?

2013-07-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 7/5/13 4:04 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: BTW I'll push another commit to jsvar.d and script.d over the weekend. I got return/break/continue working now (in the cases I've tried at least, simple ones). I think you really should put the code in shape and convert your initial post into a blog

Re: Is this D or is it Javascript?

2013-07-05 Thread MattCoder
On Friday, 5 July 2013 at 03:21:31 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Is any of this useful for anything? idk, maybe parsing json or maybe the script language could find use. But the real point I'm trying to make here is simply that... d rox. Awesome work, and I think it's a nice code to study more

Re: Is this D or is it Javascript?

2013-07-05 Thread Rob T
On Friday, 5 July 2013 at 23:04:28 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Maybe, but that would still be limited to a list of types. What would be ideal is if alias this or opImplicitCast existed, or implicit constructors like C++ has for function calls and could be a template: T get(T)() { ...}

Re: Is this D or is it Javascript?

2013-07-05 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
On Friday, 5 July 2013 at 08:26:23 UTC, Rory McGuire wrote: Just need a decent wrapper on phobos to fix the naming of some stuff. That's fairly easy too: import arsd.jsvar; import arsd.script; void main() { var globals = var.emptyObject; { import std.algorithm;

Re: Is this D or is it Javascript?

2013-07-05 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
On Friday, 5 July 2013 at 23:58:30 UTC, Rob T wrote: What I always wanted to see, was full signature overloading rather than only the partial signature overloading we currently have. Indeed, that would be pretty cool.

Re: Is this D or is it Javascript?

2013-07-05 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
On Friday, 5 July 2013 at 23:51:16 UTC, MattCoder wrote: PS: I just think that var is maybe too generic, I would called it as jsvar or anything like that, but this is just my opinion, anyway I liked your solution. I just wanted the authentic javascript experience :P You could also rename it

Re: Is this D or is it Javascript?

2013-07-05 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
On Friday, 5 July 2013 at 23:35:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I think you really should put the code in shape and convert your initial post into a blog entry. You know, I have a lot of things I want to blab about, but the problem is I don't have a blog! I'm slowly working on coding one

Re: Is this D or is it Javascript?

2013-07-05 Thread JS
On Saturday, 6 July 2013 at 00:27:45 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Friday, 5 July 2013 at 23:35:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I think you really should put the code in shape and convert your initial post into a blog entry. You know, I have a lot of things I want to blab about, but the

Re: Is this D or is it Javascript?

2013-07-05 Thread Walter Bright
On 7/5/2013 5:27 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Friday, 5 July 2013 at 23:35:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I think you really should put the code in shape and convert your initial post into a blog entry. You know, I have a lot of things I want to blab about, but the problem is I don't have