Re: C#7 features

2016-05-06 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/7/16 1:29 AM, Timon Gehr wrote: On 06.05.2016 18:58, Kagamin wrote: On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 14:33:22 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Added a comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4i3h77/some_new_c7_features/d2v5lu6 D has ref variables? Not for a long time though.

Re: C#7 features

2016-05-06 Thread Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06.05.2016 18:58, Kagamin wrote: On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 14:33:22 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Added a comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4i3h77/some_new_c7_features/d2v5lu6 D has ref variables? Not for a long time though. D actually does not support ref local

Re: C#7 features

2016-05-06 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 14:33:22 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Added a comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4i3h77/some_new_c7_features/d2v5lu6 D has ref variables? Not for a long time though.

Re: GSoC 2016 - Precise GC

2016-05-06 Thread Leandro Lucarella via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 3 May 2016 at 18:15:20 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote: Not sure if it is something I can get to in the course of my project though. Scanning only unions conservatively is still pretty good. And the stack, and the CPU registers, but yeah, it should be a minority.

DConf video news

2016-05-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hot off the press from the video producers: "just a heads-up! as a quick fix [a colleague] will add chapter markers in the ustream videos so that one can see who is talking when and directly jump to the talk in question! actually pretty nice i guess. everything else will come later (in better

C#7 features

2016-05-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Most of them are also present in D, yay. https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4i3h77/some_new_c7_features/ Added a comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4i3h77/some_new_c7_features/d2v5lu6 Andrei

Re: GSoC 2016 - Precise GC

2016-05-06 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/6/16 11:06 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: On 06-May-2016 05:37, Jeremy DeHaan wrote: On Wednesday, 4 May 2016 at 12:42:30 UTC, jmh530 wrote: On Wednesday, 4 May 2016 at 02:50:08 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote: I'm not sure, but one would think that @safe code wouldn't need any extra information

Re: GSoC 2016 - Precise GC

2016-05-06 Thread Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06-May-2016 05:37, Jeremy DeHaan wrote: On Wednesday, 4 May 2016 at 12:42:30 UTC, jmh530 wrote: On Wednesday, 4 May 2016 at 02:50:08 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote: I'm not sure, but one would think that @safe code wouldn't need any extra information about the union. I wouldn't know how to