Re: DIP 1016--ref T accepts r-values--Formal Assessment

2019-01-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/30/19 10:12 PM, Manu wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 7:05 PM Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Thursday, 31 January 2019 at 02:10:05 UTC, Manu wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 1:05 PM Andrei Alexandrescu via fun(my_short); // implicit type conversions (ie, short->int

Re: DIP 1016--ref T accepts r-values--Formal Assessment

2019-01-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/30/19 10:05 PM, Manu wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 6:40 PM Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 18:29:37 UTC, Manu wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 9:20 AM Neia Neutuladh via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: The result of a CastExpression is

Re: DIP 1016--ref T accepts r-values--Formal Assessment

2019-01-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/30/19 9:10 PM, Manu wrote: * Its own author seems to not have an understanding of what the DIP proposes. More classy comments. I can't get enough of the way you belittle people. You're right. I have deleted this post a few seconds after having sent it on account of that remark, but

Re: DIP 1016--ref T accepts r-values--Formal Assessment

2019-01-30 Thread Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 7:35 PM Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > > On 1/30/19 10:05 PM, Manu wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 6:40 PM Nicholas Wilson via > > Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > >> You should clarify that ;) > > > > Yes, as said above, read `short(10)`. I

Re: DConf 2019 Early-Bird Registration Now Open

2019-01-30 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 20:12:49 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: Has a hotel for post-conference gathering* been picked? Not yet. I'll update the venue page as soon as we get something worked out. https://dconf.org/2019/venue.html * We all know this actually means Beer Conf :D

Re: DIP 1016--ref T accepts r-values--Formal Assessment

2019-01-30 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/30/19 10:05 PM, Manu wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 6:40 PM Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: You should clarify that ;) Yes, as said above, read `short(10)`. I can understand the confusion that it may look like a variable when taken out of context; but listed beneath

Re: DIP 1016 should use expression lowering, not statement lowering

2019-01-30 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/30/19 10:03 PM, Nicholas Wilson wrote: On Thursday, 31 January 2019 at 02:29:47 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I came up with this idea based on tempCString, but it doesn't work: So I don't get why it doesn't work. But if that was fixed, could be a potential workaround without

Re: DIP 1016--ref T accepts r-values--Formal Assessment

2019-01-30 Thread Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 7:05 PM Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > > On Thursday, 31 January 2019 at 02:10:05 UTC, Manu wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 1:05 PM Andrei Alexandrescu via > >> fun(my_short); // implicit type conversions (ie, short->int > >> promotion) > >>

Re: DIP 1016--ref T accepts r-values--Formal Assessment

2019-01-30 Thread Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 6:40 PM Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > > On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 18:29:37 UTC, Manu wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 9:20 AM Neia Neutuladh via > > Digitalmars-d-announce > > wrote: > >> The result of a CastExpression is an rvalue. An

Re: DIP 1016--ref T accepts r-values--Formal Assessment

2019-01-30 Thread Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 31 January 2019 at 02:10:05 UTC, Manu wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 1:05 PM Andrei Alexandrescu via fun(my_short); // implicit type conversions (ie, short->int promotion) Oh I see. fun(short(10)); // implicit type conversions (ie, short->int promotion) I did not

Re: DIP 1016 should use expression lowering, not statement lowering

2019-01-30 Thread Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 31 January 2019 at 02:29:47 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I came up with this idea based on tempCString, but it doesn't work: So I don't get why it doesn't work. But if that was fixed, could be a potential workaround without requiring a DIP. Thats nice! But it doesn't fix

Re: DIP 1016 should use expression lowering, not statement lowering

2019-01-30 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/29/19 6:52 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: While writing this example: int[] a = cast(int[]) alloc.allocate(100 * int.sizeof); if (alloc.reallocate(a, 200 * int.sizeof)) {     assert(a.length == 200); } => int[] a = cast(int[]) alloc.allocate(100 * int.sizeof); void[] __temp0 = a; if

Re: DIP 1016--ref T accepts r-values--Formal Assessment

2019-01-30 Thread Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 12:40 PM 12345swordy via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > > On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 18:29:37 UTC, Manu wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 9:20 AM Neia Neutuladh via > > Digitalmars-d-announce > > wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 09:15:36 -0800, Manu wrote: >

Re: DIP 1017--Add Bottom Type--Formal Assessment

2019-01-30 Thread Paolo Invernizzi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 20:50:42 UTC, Johannes Loher wrote: Am 30.01.19 um 15:05 schrieb Mike Parker: Given the nature of the feedback in both review rounds this DIP has gone through, Walter has decided to reject his own DIP. He still believes there is a benefit to adding a bottom

Re: GtkD Blog Now Up and Running

2019-01-30 Thread sanjayss via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 25 January 2019 at 21:16:59 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: Hi y'all, As of January 11, 2019, http://gtkdcoding.com is up. It's a blog, it's a github page, it's simple examples of how to use GtkD for all that GUI stuff. My approach is to lay out a firm foundation for both imperative and

Re: GtkD Blog Now Up and Running

2019-01-30 Thread Mike Wey via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 30-01-2019 21:07, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2019-01-30 11:35, Ron Tarrant wrote: You said you're on OSX, right? Is it possible that dub just isn't as cooperative on Windows 10? Of course, if you can see something in this output that hints at a fix, please let me know. It's Optlink being

Re: DIP 1016--ref T accepts r-values--Formal Assessment

2019-01-30 Thread kinke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 January 2019 at 19:58:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/28/19 1:00 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: It seems to me that a proposal adding the "@rvalue" attribute in function signatures to each parameter that would accept either an rvalue or an lvalue would be easy to argue.

Re: DIP 1016--ref T accepts r-values--Formal Assessment

2019-01-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/30/19 1:29 PM, Manu wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 9:20 AM Neia Neutuladh via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 09:15:36 -0800, Manu wrote: Why are you so stuck on this case? The DIP is about accepting rvalues, not lvalues... Calling with 'p', an lvalue, is not subject

Re: DIP 1017--Add Bottom Type--Formal Assessment

2019-01-30 Thread Johannes Loher via Digitalmars-d-announce
Am 30.01.19 um 15:05 schrieb Mike Parker: > Given the nature of the feedback in both review rounds this DIP has gone > through, Walter has decided to reject his own DIP. He still believes > there is a benefit to adding a bottom type to the language, but this > proposal is not the way to go about

Re: 5 reasons the D programming language is a great choice for development

2019-01-30 Thread bauss via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 20:46:07 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 08:34:58PM +, Simen Kjærås via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: I found this article espousing D's strengths today: https://opensource.com/article/17/5/d-open-source-software-development It appears to be

Re: 5 reasons the D programming language is a great choice for development

2019-01-30 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 08:34:58PM +, Simen Kjærås via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > I found this article espousing D's strengths today: > https://opensource.com/article/17/5/d-open-source-software-development It appears to be written by our very own `aberba`, who also frequently

Re: DIP 1016 should use expression lowering, not statement lowering

2019-01-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/30/19 3:34 AM, Kagamin wrote: On Tuesday, 29 January 2019 at 11:52:40 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Where should the temporary go? Doesn't D already specify allocation and lifetime of temporaries? AIU the DIP doesn't invent the notion of a temporary. My bad, I overloaded the term

Re: DIP 1016--ref T accepts r-values--Formal Assessment

2019-01-30 Thread 12345swordy via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 18:29:37 UTC, Manu wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 9:20 AM Neia Neutuladh via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 09:15:36 -0800, Manu wrote: > Why are you so stuck on this case? The DIP is about > accepting rvalues, > not lvalues... > Calling

5 reasons the D programming language is a great choice for development

2019-01-30 Thread Simen Kjærås via Digitalmars-d-announce
I found this article espousing D's strengths today: https://opensource.com/article/17/5/d-open-source-software-development

Re: DConf 2019 Early-Bird Registration Now Open

2019-01-30 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2019-01-28 15:07, Mike Parker wrote: I've published a post on the blog with updates about DConf 2019 registrations, the invited keynote speaker, the Symmetry Autumn of Code finalist, and the previously announced fundraiser for a new forum server. Early-bird registrations are $340 again

Re: GtkD Blog Now Up and Running

2019-01-30 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2019-01-30 11:35, Ron Tarrant wrote: You said you're on OSX, right? Is it possible that dub just isn't as cooperative on Windows 10? Of course, if you can see something in this output that hints at a fix, please let me know. It's Optlink being stupid as always. If you want to figure out

Re: GtkD Blog Now Up and Running

2019-01-30 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2019-01-30 03:00, Neia Neutuladh wrote: Might I recommend instead: dependency "gtk-d" version="3.8.5" This depends on gtk-d 3.8.5 and only that version. If there is a breaking change in 3.8.6 despite semantic versioning, your code keeps working. In libraries, I prefer using ~> to

Re: DIP 1016--ref T accepts r-values--Formal Assessment

2019-01-30 Thread 12345swordy via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 16:47:48 UTC, Don wrote: On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 13:58:38 UTC, 12345swordy wrote: I do not accept gut feeling as a valid objection here. The current workarounds is shown to be painful as shown in the dip and in the discussions that it currently link.

Re: GtkD Blog Now Up and Running

2019-01-30 Thread Antonio Corbi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 09:48:14 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: On Saturday, 26 January 2019 at 16:53:18 UTC, Antonio Corbi wrote: [1] https://sites.google.com/site/gtkdtutorial/ [2] http://britseyeview.com/software/articles/gsgtkd.html [3] https://gitlab.com/csoriano/GtkDApp Took a look

Re: DIP 1016--ref T accepts r-values--Formal Assessment

2019-01-30 Thread Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 9:20 AM Neia Neutuladh via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 09:15:36 -0800, Manu wrote: > > Why are you so stuck on this case? The DIP is about accepting rvalues, > > not lvalues... > > Calling with 'p', an lvalue, is not subject to this DIP. > > The

Re: DIP 1016--ref T accepts r-values--Formal Assessment

2019-01-30 Thread Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue., 29 Jan. 2019, 10:25 pm Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: > On 1/29/2019 3:45 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > > I am talking about this: > > > > int[] a = cast(int[]) alloc.allocate(100 * int.sizeof); > > if (alloc.reallocate(a, 200 *

Re: DIP 1016--ref T accepts r-values--Formal Assessment

2019-01-30 Thread Neia Neutuladh via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 09:15:36 -0800, Manu wrote: > Why are you so stuck on this case? The DIP is about accepting rvalues, > not lvalues... > Calling with 'p', an lvalue, is not subject to this DIP. The result of a CastExpression is an rvalue. An implicit cast is a compiler-inserted

Re: DIP 1016--ref T accepts r-values--Formal Assessment

2019-01-30 Thread Don via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 13:58:38 UTC, 12345swordy wrote: I do not accept gut feeling as a valid objection here. The current workarounds is shown to be painful as shown in the dip and in the discussions that it currently link. That *the* motivation here. Like I said previously I am

Re: DIP 1017--Add Bottom Type--Formal Assessment

2019-01-30 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 02:05:37PM +, Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > Given the nature of the feedback in both review rounds this DIP has > gone through, Walter has decided to reject his own DIP. He still > believes there is a benefit to adding a bottom type to the language, >

Re: unit-threaded v0.8.0

2019-01-30 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 14:27:25 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: [snip] -- @Types!(ubyte, byte) @Types!(int, uint, float) @UnitTest void fun(T0, T1)() { static assert(T0.sizeof == 1); static assert(T1.sizeof == 4); } -- This now generates 6 tests, one

unit-threaded v0.8.0

2019-01-30 Thread Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-announce
New release of unit-threaded, the advanced test framework for D: https://code.dlang.org/packages/unit-threaded Besides bug fixes, the main difference is now cartesian product of types works as it did for values when it comes to parameterized tests: -- @Types!(ubyte, byte)

DIP 1017--Add Bottom Type--Formal Assessment

2019-01-30 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Given the nature of the feedback in both review rounds this DIP has gone through, Walter has decided to reject his own DIP. He still believes there is a benefit to adding a bottom type to the language, but this proposal is not the way to go about it. He hopes to revisit the issue in the

Re: DIP 1016--ref T accepts r-values--Formal Assessment

2019-01-30 Thread 12345swordy via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 04:34:46 UTC, Don wrote: On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 03:01:36 UTC, 12345swordy wrote: On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 00:25:17 UTC, Don wrote: But what I fail to see is why can't the programmer solve this themselves instead of relying on a new feature

Re: Spasm 0.1.3 released - with bindings to web apis

2019-01-30 Thread kinke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 11:03:13 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote: I install LDC from the arch repositories, which should just be the prebuilt binaries from the ldc repo I think Nope, they aren't. I guess your problem is that you cannot *link* wasm; that will only work with v1.14 for distro

Re: Spasm 0.1.3 released - with bindings to web apis

2019-01-30 Thread WebFreak001 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 08:26:22 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe wrote: On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 00:22:15 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote: the underrun example looks really cool! I'm on linux but I don't use docker Wait, you are on linux. Why doesn't your ldc have wasm target? How did you

Re: GtkD Blog Post #0005 Now Live

2019-01-30 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 09:04:35 UTC, M.M. wrote: On Tuesday, 29 January 2019 at 21:00:10 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: Another blog post available at http://gtkdcoding.com Enjoy! PS: And yeah, I'll get around to dubbing at some point. Perhaps after I get the docs parser finished. Do

Re: GtkD Blog Now Up and Running

2019-01-30 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 29 January 2019 at 23:09:57 UTC, Christian Köstlin wrote: I was surprised how simple it is nowadays even in osx. Okay, there's definitely something odd going on with my set up. I followed your directions to the letter and OPTLINK barfed. Here is the output from my first try to

Re: GtkD Blog Now Up and Running

2019-01-30 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 26 January 2019 at 16:53:18 UTC, Antonio Corbi wrote: [1] https://sites.google.com/site/gtkdtutorial/ [2] http://britseyeview.com/software/articles/gsgtkd.html [3] https://gitlab.com/csoriano/GtkDApp Took a look this morning. I'd come across the Brit's Eye View articles, but not

Re: GtkD Blog Post #0005 Now Live

2019-01-30 Thread M.M. via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 29 January 2019 at 21:00:10 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: Another blog post available at http://gtkdcoding.com Enjoy! PS: And yeah, I'll get around to dubbing at some point. Perhaps after I get the docs parser finished. Do you know whether GTKD is going to wrap GTK+ 3.24? (Currently,

Re: DIP 1016 should use expression lowering, not statement lowering

2019-01-30 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 29 January 2019 at 11:52:40 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Where should the temporary go? Doesn't D already specify allocation and lifetime of temporaries? AIU the DIP doesn't invent the notion of a temporary.

Re: Spasm 0.1.3 released - with bindings to web apis

2019-01-30 Thread Sebastiaan Koppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 00:22:15 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote: the underrun example looks really cool! I'm on linux but I don't use docker Wait, you are on linux. Why doesn't your ldc have wasm target? How did you install it? I will try out making something with spasm soon! Cool.