Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

2014-05-28 Thread Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 05/29/2014 05:35 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Wed, 28 May 2014 16:07:08 -0700 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Some of the inconsistencies you mentioned and Brian mentioned in his talk are actually the result of consistencies. I know this is a bi

Re: DirectX bindings

2014-05-28 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, 27 May 2014 02:24:01 -0700, evilrat wrote: On Sunday, 3 November 2013 at 05:27:24 UTC, evilrat wrote: https://github.com/evilrat666/directx-d this is it. i think i can't continue on this one anymore, nor do i have time, nor passion. i've made a lot of work and meet (almost) no in

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

2014-05-28 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, 28 May 2014 16:07:08 -0700 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > Some of the inconsistencies you mentioned and Brian mentioned in his > talk are actually the result of consistencies. > > I know this is a bit of a difficult thing to wrap one's head around, > but having somethin

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

2014-05-28 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
Okay. That seriously got munged. Let's try that again... On Tue, 27 May 2014 06:42:41 -1000 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26m8hy/scott_meyers_dconf_2014_keynote_the_last_thing_d/ > > https://news.ycombinator.com/newest (searc

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

2014-05-28 Thread Jesse Phillips via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 04:48:11 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote: I did a translation of most of the code in the slides. http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/72b5cfcb72e4 I'm planning to transform it into blog post (or series). Right now it just has some scratch notes. Feel free to let me know everything I g

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

2014-05-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/28/2014 6:06 PM, Brian Schott wrote: On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 00:58:35 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Off the top of my head: static if (condition) else : ... declarations ... All attributes apply to either: 1. the next statement or declaration 2. { ... } 3. : ... That case i

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

2014-05-28 Thread safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 13:05:53 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: Whats wrong with "If you think that, you have another thing coming."? I've always understood it sort of like say your Father saying: "If you think that [i.e. you can steal your little brother's ice cream cone], then you hav

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

2014-05-28 Thread Brian Schott via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 00:58:35 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Off the top of my head: static if (condition) else : ... declarations ... All attributes apply to either: 1. the next statement or declaration 2. { ... } 3. : ... That case is (3), as static if is set up as an attribu

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

2014-05-28 Thread Simen Kjærås via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2014-05-28 13:05, Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 21:40:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/27/2014 2:22 PM, w0rp wrote: I'm actually a native speaker of 25 years and I didn't get it at first. Natural language communicates ideas approximately. Wh

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

2014-05-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/28/2014 5:35 PM, Brian Rogoff wrote: Could you elaborate? Using some of the examples Brian gave, which ones do you think are are mathematically consistent/human inconsistent and which the inverse? Off the top of my head: static if (condition) else : ... declarations ... All

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

2014-05-28 Thread Brian Rogoff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 23:07:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Some of the inconsistencies you mentioned and Brian mentioned in his talk are actually the result of consistencies. I know this is a bit of a difficult thing to wrap one's head around, but having something be mathematically consis

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

2014-05-28 Thread Jesse Phillips via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 22:42:03 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: However, those expectations are based on the inside-out syntax of C. Naturally, wanting to be consistent, especially compared to C, D should deviate from that syntax. I don't get to read the original email, but I agree with the exa

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

2014-05-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
Some of the inconsistencies you mentioned and Brian mentioned in his talk are actually the result of consistencies. I know this is a bit of a difficult thing to wrap one's head around, but having something be mathematically consistent and humanly consistent are often at severe odds.

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

2014-05-28 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 05/28/2014 03:10 PM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Tue, 27 May 2014 06:42:41 -1000 > Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce > wrote: > > > > http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26m8hy/scott_meyers_dconf_2014_keynote_the_last_thing_d/ > > > >

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

2014-05-28 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, 27 May 2014 06:42:41 -1000 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26m8hy/scott_meyers_dconf_2014_keynote_the_last_thing_d/ > > https://news.ycombinator.com/newest (search that page, if not found > click "More" and search again)

Re: Adam D. Ruppe's "D Cookbook" now available!

2014-05-28 Thread Szymon Gatner via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 19:06:04 UTC, Misu wrote: Thank you, I ordered mine as well ! I am already half through mine :) Great stuff!

Re: Adam D. Ruppe's "D Cookbook" now available!

2014-05-28 Thread Misu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Thank you, I ordered mine as well !

Re: Adam D. Ruppe's "D Cookbook" now available!

2014-05-28 Thread Olivier Pisano via Digitalmars-d-announce
I have just ordered mine. I can't wait to get it ! 

Adam D. Ruppe's "D Cookbook" now available!

2014-05-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book http://www.amazon.com/D-Cookbook-Adam-D-Ruppe/dp/1783287217 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26pn00/d_cookbook_officially_published_consists_of_d/ After watching Adam's most excellent presentation at Dconf

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

2014-05-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/28/2014 2:28 AM, John Colvin wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 21:40:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/27/2014 2:22 PM, w0rp wrote: I'm actually a native speaker of 25 years and I didn't get it at first. Natural language communicates ideas approximately. What bugs me is when people say:

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/28/2014 10:34 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I just posted it to reddit btw: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26pn00/d_cookbook_officially_published_consists_of_d/ Just snagged my copy!

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-28 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
I just posted it to reddit btw: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26pn00/d_cookbook_officially_published_consists_of_d/

Re: Video of my LDC talk @ FOSDEM'14

2014-05-28 Thread Tommi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 09:14:18 UTC, Alix Pexton wrote: On 27/05/2014 1:15 PM, Tommi wrote: On Monday, 26 May 2014 at 05:59:35 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: [..] http://video.fosdem.org/2014/K4401/Sunday/LDC_the_LLVMbased_D_compiler.webm I can't watch this on my iPhone. https://itunes.apple.

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

2014-05-28 Thread Andrzej Dwojczynski via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 08:58:34 UTC, Rene Zwanenburg wrote: I just noticed someone posted a link to the talk at gamedev[0]. I don't know who the poster is but the gamedev.net community is pretty large; this should result in quite some extra views :) Out of curiosity - did anyone try to p

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-28 Thread Mattcoder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 16:51:56 UTC, Mattcoder wrote: On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 14:06:33 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 08:01:00 UTC, Mike James wrote: I'm looking at getting the ebook version - does that version include the errata described above? Yeah, those

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-28 Thread Mattcoder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 14:06:33 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 08:01:00 UTC, Mike James wrote: I'm looking at getting the ebook version - does that version include the errata described above? Yeah, those errors were in the .doc I sent in after revisions on chapte

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-28 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 10:00:01 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 19:58:10 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 5/6/2014 9:11 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 12:40:48 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Any way to see the TOC? Hmm, not on the website yet but here it

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

2014-05-28 Thread Jesse Phillips via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 14:39:53 UTC, anonymous_me wrote: The first line: int x2; // (at global scope) The x2 resides in Thread Local Storage (TLS). A __gshared would put it in global scope. Still initialized to int.init which is zero. D doesn't have global scope. C++ does not do TLS

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

2014-05-28 Thread anonymous_me via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, 28 May 2014 04:48:09 +, Jesse Phillips wrote: > On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 16:42:35 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu > wrote: >> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26m8hy/scott_meyers_dconf_2014_keynote_the_last_thing_d/ >> >> https://news.ycombinator.com/newest (search that page, i

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-28 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 05:23:03 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: I always chalked it up to the whole "nerd" thing: Inverse relationship in outgoingness between in-person vs semi-anonymous. I don't think I'm /that/ much different; I rarely start threads, for example, but will talk in replies, w

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-28 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 08:01:00 UTC, Mike James wrote: I'm looking at getting the ebook version - does that version include the errata described above? Yeah, those errors were in the .doc I sent in after revisions on chapter 1 and we didn't catch them in the final draft. But the subsequ

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-28 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 May 2014 at 19:29:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Adam graciously shared the slides of his DConf 2014 talk with us: http://imgur.com/hHCN3OL Andrei This was best marketing for Adam book possible :) Someone who can talk for an hour without any visual helpers while still ma

Re: Dconf 2014 talks - when to be available

2014-05-28 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 12:20:34 UTC, Bruno Medeiros wrote: On 28/05/2014 04:54, Saurabh Das wrote: I actually prefer the slow release of the videos - it gives me enough time to digest each talk and discuss it before the next one grabs mine and everyone else's attention. I think releasin

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

2014-05-28 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 21:40:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/27/2014 2:22 PM, w0rp wrote: I'm actually a native speaker of 25 years and I didn't get it at first. Natural language communicates ideas approximately. What bugs me is when people say: I could care less. when they mean:

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-28 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 09:06:12 UTC, Alix Pexton wrote: On 28/05/2014 9:00 AM, Mike James wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 14:20:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 13:27:56 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Will epub version be available too? Yeah, I think it is already

Re: Dconf 2014 talks - when to be available

2014-05-28 Thread Bruno Medeiros via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 28/05/2014 04:54, Saurabh Das wrote: I actually prefer the slow release of the videos - it gives me enough time to digest each talk and discuss it before the next one grabs mine and everyone else's attention. I think releasing one video every few days leads to much more in-depth discussion on

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

2014-05-28 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 21:40:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/27/2014 2:22 PM, w0rp wrote: I'm actually a native speaker of 25 years and I didn't get it at first. Natural language communicates ideas approximately. What bugs me is when people say: I could care less. when they mean:

Re: Video of my LDC talk @ FOSDEM'14

2014-05-28 Thread Alix Pexton via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 27/05/2014 1:15 PM, Tommi wrote: On Monday, 26 May 2014 at 05:59:35 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: [..] http://video.fosdem.org/2014/K4401/Sunday/LDC_the_LLVMbased_D_compiler.webm I can't watch this on my iPhone. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/vlc-for-ios/id650377962?mt=8

Re: Dconf 2014 talks - when to be available

2014-05-28 Thread Leandro Lucarella via Digitalmars-d-announce
Jacob Carlborg, el 28 de May a las 08:18 me escribiste: > On 28/05/14 00:15, Leandro Lucarella wrote: > > >I think they should be uploaded all ASAP and then you can do "official" > >announcements in reddit or wherever you thinks it's best to promote the > >language. But really, introducing artific

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-28 Thread Alix Pexton via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 28/05/2014 9:00 AM, Mike James wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 14:20:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 13:27:56 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Will epub version be available too? Yeah, I think it is already on the packt website. I'm looking at getting the ebook versio

Re: Dconf 2014 talks - when to be available

2014-05-28 Thread Leandro Lucarella via Digitalmars-d-announce
Saurabh Das, el 28 de May a las 03:54 me escribiste: > On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 23:48:44 UTC, currysoup wrote: > >On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 23:08:01 UTC, Leandro Lucarella wrote: > >>Ali Çehreli, el 27 de May a las 10:40 me escribiste: > >>>On 05/27/2014 09:18 AM, Suliman wrote: > >>> > > ap

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

2014-05-28 Thread Rene Zwanenburg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 16:42:35 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26m8hy/scott_meyers_dconf_2014_keynote_the_last_thing_d/ https://news.ycombinator.com/newest (search that page, if not found click "More" and search again) https://www.facebook.com

Re: Dconf 2014 talks - when to be available

2014-05-28 Thread simendsjo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 05/28/2014 05:54 AM, Saurabh Das wrote: > On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 23:48:44 UTC, currysoup wrote: >> On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 23:08:01 UTC, Leandro Lucarella wrote: >>> Ali Çehreli, el 27 de May a las 10:40 me escribiste: On 05/27/2014 09:18 AM, Suliman wrote: >> apparently to

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-28 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 14:20:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 13:27:56 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Will epub version be available too? Yeah, I think it is already on the packt website. I'm looking at getting the ebook version - does that version include the errata

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

2014-05-28 Thread dennis luehring via Digitalmars-d-announce
woudl be nice to have some sort of example by example comparison or as an extension to the page http://dlang.org/cpptod.html Am 28.05.2014 07:40, schrieb Jesse Phillips: On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 05:30:18 UTC, Philippe Sigaud via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: I did a translation of most of t

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

2014-05-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/27/2014 10:40 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote: When he explained why C++ inferred a const int type as int, he tripped me up because D does drop const for value types. But D does the simple to explain thing, may not be the expected thing (seen questions about it in D.learn), but it is simple to expl