Re: DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition

2018-12-22 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sat, 2018-12-22 at 13:46 +, Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > […] > Given that this conference format is dying off, is there any > explanation for why the D team wants to continue this antiquated > ritual? > > https://marco.org/2018/01/17/end-of-conference-era >

Re: DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition

2018-12-22 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 22:13:44 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/22/2018 6:26 AM, Atila Neves wrote: If you don't like conferences you don't have to go. I for one am excited about being in London in May. Please don't sour it for other who think/feel like I do. That's right. And

Re: DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition

2018-12-22 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/22/2018 7:11 AM, Joakim wrote: I've never been to DConf I suggest actually attending and seeing for yourself.

Re: DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition

2018-12-22 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/22/2018 6:26 AM, Atila Neves wrote: If you don't like conferences you don't have to go. I for one am excited about being in London in May. Please don't sour it for other who think/feel like I do. That's right. And hefting a pint with Atila is guaranteed to be a highlight of the

Re: DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition

2018-12-22 Thread Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 23:00, Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > > On 12/22/18 10:47 AM, Robert M. Münch wrote: > > On 2018-12-22 12:18:25 +, Mike Parker said: > > > >> Thanks to Symmetry Investments, DConf is heading to London! We're > >> still ironing out the details, but I've

Re: DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition

2018-12-22 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/22/2018 5:33 AM, Russel Winder wrote: it's on at the exact same time as DevoxxUK 2019 which is at the Business Design Centre. :-( Please inform DevoxxUK they need to shift their schedule.

Re: DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition

2018-12-22 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/22/18 10:47 AM, Robert M. Münch wrote: On 2018-12-22 12:18:25 +, Mike Parker said: Thanks to Symmetry Investments, DConf is heading to London! We're still ironing out the details, but I've been sitting on this for weeks and, now that we have a venue, I just can't keep quiet about it

Re: DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition

2018-12-22 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 18:47:40 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: On 2018-12-22 12:18:25 +, Mike Parker said: Thanks to Symmetry Investments, DConf is heading to London! We're still ironing out the details, but I've been sitting on this for weeks and, now that we have a venue, I just

Re: now it's possible! printing floating point numbers at compile-time

2018-12-22 Thread Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 21:06:48 UTC, Basile B. wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 20:24:46 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 20:08:12 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: Thus enabling you to convert doubles into strings at compiletime. Cool, CTFE formating is

Re: now it's possible! printing floating point numbers at compile-time

2018-12-22 Thread Basile B. via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 20:24:46 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 20:08:12 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: Thus enabling you to convert doubles into strings at compiletime. Cool, CTFE formating is something that occasionaly comes in the forum. Now i remember there's

Re: now it's possible! printing floating point numbers at compile-time

2018-12-22 Thread Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 20:08:12 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: Thus enabling you to convert doubles into strings at compiletime. Aww I am dumb ... should have waited 2 days :) Anyhow I hope that this is helpful to some of you. Please note that grisu 2 will give you representation

Re: DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition

2018-12-22 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 17:13:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: We like the current format and see no need to change it at this time. That's all it really comes down to. Y'all like it. But the time and money COULD be put to far better use. Consider this: keep the same schedule, but the

now it's possible! printing floating point numbers at compile-time

2018-12-22 Thread Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi Guys, during my research on floating point numbers I came across a short and efficient implementation[0] of the grisu2 algorithm for converting floating point numbers into strings. Which I then ported into CTFEable D code. Thus enabling you to convert doubles into strings at compiletime.

Re: DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition

2018-12-22 Thread Robert M. Münch via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2018-12-22 12:18:25 +, Mike Parker said: Thanks to Symmetry Investments, DConf is heading to London! We're still ironing out the details, but I've been sitting on this for weeks and, now that we have a venue, I just can't keep quiet about it any longer. Hi, you should consider the

Re: DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition

2018-12-22 Thread Johannes Loher via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 16:57:10 UTC, Joakim wrote: As I recall, you largely agreed with me: That is true, and I still do regarding many points (though not all). But this is not the point I wanted to make. I don't consider my opinion that important. I simply wanted to point out why

Re: DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition

2018-12-22 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 17:36:08 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 16:57:10 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 16:35:27 UTC, Johannes Loher wrote: Also I don't think this is the right place for this discussion. If you feel that we indeed need

Re: DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition

2018-12-22 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 16:57:10 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 16:35:27 UTC, Johannes Loher wrote: Also I don't think this is the right place for this discussion. If you feel that we indeed need to rediscuss this issue, I think it should be done in a separate

Re: DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition

2018-12-22 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 17:13:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 16:57:10 UTC, Joakim wrote: I'm not trying to discuss it with you or the community. I'm asking the D team who're making this decision why it's being made, despite all the reasoning in that

Re: DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition

2018-12-22 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 16:57:10 UTC, Joakim wrote: I'm not trying to discuss it with you or the community. I'm asking the D team who're making this decision why it's being made, despite all the reasoning in that thread, and reiterating that it's a bad move. I suspect they're not

Re: DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition

2018-12-22 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 16:35:27 UTC, Johannes Loher wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 15:11:10 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 14:26:29 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 13:46:39 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at

Re: DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition

2018-12-22 Thread Johannes Loher via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 15:11:10 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 14:26:29 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 13:46:39 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 12:18:25 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The egregious waste of time and

Re: DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition

2018-12-22 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 14:26:29 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 13:46:39 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 12:18:25 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The egregious waste of time and resources of this DConf format strongly signals that D is not a

Re: Visual D 0.48.0 released

2018-12-22 Thread Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi, I have uploaded a bugfix release 0.48.1, among other things fixed: - goto definition on alias: jump to base definition if caret on alias - cv2pdb: fix missing line numbers for new versions of mspdb*.dll - mago: variables captured from stack of outer function not displayed in locals Head

Re: DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition

2018-12-22 Thread Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 13:46:39 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 12:18:25 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The egregious waste of time and resources of this DConf format strongly signals that D is not a serious effort to build a used language, It's the same signal being

Re: DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition

2018-12-22 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 12:18:25 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Thanks to Symmetry Investments, DConf is heading to London! We're still ironing out the details, but I've been sitting on this for weeks and, now that we have a venue, I just can't keep quiet about it any longer. I've updated

Re: DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition

2018-12-22 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
Brilliant, DConf comes to the UK, I can get to it… except… it's on at the exact same time as DevoxxUK 2019 which is at the Business Design Centre. :-( -- Russel. === Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077

Re: [neovim/vim] ncm2/ncm2-d autocompletion source for d

2018-12-22 Thread Anton Pastukhov via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 18 December 2018 at 22:12:52 UTC, viniarck wrote: Hi, neovim/vim8 users out there, if you'd like to have an alternative to deoplete, ncm2 is async and really fast, works out of the box, and it has integration with UltiSnippets to further expand all the arguments of the completion

DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition

2018-12-22 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Thanks to Symmetry Investments, DConf is heading to London! We're still ironing out the details, but I've been sitting on this for weeks and, now that we have a venue, I just can't keep quiet about it any longer. I've updated the DConf site and published a blog post, but I ask that you