Bindings to clFFT (OpenCL fft library)

2014-07-08 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce
Just a heads-up for anyone using/wanting to use OpenCL in D: clFFT [1] is amd's open source fft library for OpenCL, part of clMathLibraries. I needed it for a project so I ported the header, here it is: https://github.com/John-Colvin/clFFT-D http://code.dlang.org/packages/clfft I left

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-06 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 13:32:16 UTC, Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:42 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: Though I confess what horrifies me the most about dynamic languages is code like

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

2014-05-31 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 31 May 2014 at 17:49:18 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote: On Saturday, 31 May 2014 at 07:32:22 UTC, Kagamin wrote: What do you mean D does not provide a decltype? typeof(cx) my_cx2 = cx; I'll blame this on my poor knowledge of C++, at this time typeof in C++ does not appear to

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

2014-05-26 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 26 May 2014 at 16:14:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/25/2014 10:59 PM, Kai Nacke wrote: Hi all, the video of my LDC talk @ FOSDEM'14 in February is now online. Here is the link: http://video.fosdem.org/2014/K4401/Sunday/LDC_the_LLVMbased_D_compiler.webm In the same folder are

Re: Video of my LDC talk @ FOSDEM'14

2014-05-26 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 26 May 2014 at 17:06:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/26/2014 9:31 AM, John Colvin wrote: On Monday, 26 May 2014 at 16:14:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/25/2014 10:59 PM, Kai Nacke wrote: Hi all, the video of my LDC talk @ FOSDEM'14 in February is now online. Here

Re: Livestreaming DConf?

2014-05-22 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 22 May 2014 at 10:09:28 UTC, Nordlöw wrote: We at Facebook are very excited about the upcoming DConf 2014. Will the videos be available afterwards at Andreis Youtube stream like last year? +1 There's a big overlap between people who can't be at dconf and who also can't watch

Re: Dash: An Open Source Game Engine in D

2014-05-20 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 20 May 2014 at 13:12:30 UTC, Colden Cullen wrote: On Tuesday, 20 May 2014 at 05:22:54 UTC, Mineko wrote: Wow, good stuff, very impressive, I'm making a engine myself called Breaker Engine (Coded in D), and I might just have to take a few tips from your engine. Although I've

Re: Livestreaming DConf?

2014-05-09 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 9 May 2014 at 19:48:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hi folks, We at Facebook are very excited about the upcoming DConf 2014. In fact, so excited we're considering livestreaming the event for the benefit of the many of us who can't make it to Menlo Park, CA. Livestreaming

Re: Tkd - Cross platform GUI toolkit based on Tcl/Tk

2014-05-07 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 4 May 2014 at 16:18:53 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote: Tkd v1.0.0-beta https://github.com/nomad-software/tkd http://code.dlang.org/packages/tkd Overview Tkd is a fully cross-platform GUI toolkit based on Tcl/Tk[1]. Tkd allows you to build GUI applications easily and with the

Re: Unencumbered V0.1.2: Write Cucumber step definitions in D

2014-04-25 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 25 April 2014 at 11:11:18 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: On Friday, 25 April 2014 at 10:20:47 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On Friday, 25 April 2014 at 10:02:45 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Friday, 25 April 2014 at 09:45:06 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: Also when using things like __LINE__ keep

Re: Programming language made in D!

2014-04-10 Thread John Colvin
On Thursday, 10 April 2014 at 00:31:34 UTC, Harpo wrote: Hello. Here is a programming language that is coded in D. The documentation is included in the file. It is ment to be used as a general purpose scripting language. Its name is HarpoScript. It has enough features for general purpose work

Re: Bugzilla maintenance tonight

2014-04-09 Thread John Colvin
On Wednesday, 9 April 2014 at 07:59:26 UTC, Brad Roberts wrote: Well, my ISP decided that it wanted to take the night off while I was about half done. Completed: - issues.dlang.org should be functional - bug changes are slow due to mail sending - github updated to point to new site

Re: Interesting rant about Scala's issues

2014-04-04 Thread John Colvin
On Friday, 4 April 2014 at 18:57:44 UTC, Ben Boeckel wrote: On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 11:02:01 -0700, Walter Bright wrote: Most of the casts in Warp come from the workarounds I had to do to get around the auto-decode of std.array.front(). I have designed byChar, byWchar and byDchar ranges for

d.godbolt.org now has modern gdc

2014-03-24 Thread John Colvin
For those who don't know, d.godbolt.org is an online compiler-disassembler for d, a sibling of http://gcc.godbolt.org/ For a long time it only had gdc 4.6.3, but it now has the latest binary release. Ldc may arrive as well, in time. Thanks to Matt Godbolt who was very responsive and fast in

Re: Soon Nick will be $75 richer...

2014-03-20 Thread John Colvin
On Thursday, 20 March 2014 at 19:12:29 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote: On Wednesday, 19 March 2014 at 05:40:22 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 3/18/2014 4:28 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: ... pending Martin's approval. https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3490

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-14 Thread John Colvin
On Friday, 14 March 2014 at 01:19:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/13/14, 6:14 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 3/13/2014 9:05 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: What would make the amounts interesting? Just taking a stab in the dark here but...greater numbers are probably more

Re: D/Objective-C 64bit

2014-03-11 Thread John Colvin
On Tuesday, 11 March 2014 at 18:23:08 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: I just wanted to let everyone know that I have implemented D/Objective-C for 64bit. Everything that worked for 32bit should work, except for exceptions, which are not implemented yet. Objective-C on 64bit uses the modern

Re: ApplyYourDLang - A YouTube channel for D introduction videos

2014-02-26 Thread John Colvin
On Wednesday, 26 February 2014 at 19:52:22 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2014-02-23 23:07, simendsjo wrote: The cat's out of the bag.. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1ypg91/getting_started_with_d_and_vibed/ We didn't want to announce the site before we had more videos, but it

Re: COMPO

2014-02-25 Thread John Colvin
On Monday, 24 February 2014 at 16:30:43 UTC, Steve Teale wrote: On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 17:56:08 UTC, Steve Teale wrote: On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 06:57:55 UTC, Steve Teale wrote: I would love to get some feedback on both the application and the documentation You must forgive me

Re: early alpha of D REPL

2014-02-14 Thread John Colvin
On Friday, 14 February 2014 at 05:32:12 UTC, Asman01 wrote: On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 04:46:41 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Barely running but already fun and a little useful. Example: D import std.algorithm, std.array, std.file; = std D auto name(T)(T t) { | return t.name; | } = name D

Re: dmd 2.065 beta 2

2014-02-01 Thread John Colvin
On Friday, 31 January 2014 at 16:09:48 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote: On Sunday, 26 January 2014 at 23:38:56 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote: We've made a lot of progress towards the 2.065 stable release. Available binaries are as follows: All Systems

Re: New debugger for D!!!

2014-01-27 Thread John Colvin
On Monday, 27 January 2014 at 17:10:06 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Monday, 27 January 2014 at 16:42:14 UTC, Sarath Kodali wrote: I'm planning to release a new debugger for D sometime during end of February. This is a heads up for all those who are eagerly looking for a good debugger for D

Re: Range-Based Graph Search in D (blog post)

2014-01-10 Thread John Colvin
On Thursday, 9 January 2014 at 22:04:16 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote: Trying to write a bit more about D on my blog now. To start, I've written about a proof-of-concept range-based API for graph search. http://poita.org/2014/01/09/range-based-graph-search-in-d.html I'd greatly appreciate any

Re: Mobile App STACK4 with a D backend

2014-01-10 Thread John Colvin
On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 19:43:08 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 12/24/2013 7:37 AM, John Colvin wrote: On Tuesday, 24 December 2013 at 10:44:56 UTC, extrawurst wrote: On Sunday, 22 December 2013 at 19:48:03 UTC, John Colvin wrote: Haven't tried the multiplayer, but it seems a really

Re: Call D code from C#

2014-01-09 Thread John Colvin
On Thursday, 9 January 2014 at 15:58:20 UTC, anthony wrote: Hi to all here, (another one here that wants to desperately use D in his work environment!) So, I am a C# and C++ guy who is used to high quality tools and UI libraries. I discovered VisualD and I settled on using it, it is really

Re: D Developers Group on LinkedIn

2014-01-09 Thread John Colvin
On Thursday, 9 January 2014 at 18:31:11 UTC, extrawurst wrote: Hello everyone, I took the liberty to create a LinkedIn Group called D Developers Group. I think as D more and more enters the professional sphere of software development this might be helpful. Official job descriptions looking

Re: D Developers Group on LinkedIn

2014-01-09 Thread John Colvin
On Thursday, 9 January 2014 at 18:36:17 UTC, extrawurst wrote: On Thursday, 9 January 2014 at 18:33:33 UTC, John Colvin wrote: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/D-Developer-Network-3923820 yeah my bad I was just searching for stuff like D programming :( There are a few groups on various

Re: Mobile App STACK4 with a D backend

2013-12-24 Thread John Colvin
On Tuesday, 24 December 2013 at 10:44:56 UTC, extrawurst wrote: On Sunday, 22 December 2013 at 19:48:03 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Sunday, 22 December 2013 at 13:38:22 UTC, extrawurst wrote: Hello fellow Dlers ;) about a week ago I released the multiplayer version of my android app STACK4

Re: Mobile App STACK4 with a D backend

2013-12-22 Thread John Colvin
On Sunday, 22 December 2013 at 13:38:22 UTC, extrawurst wrote: Hello fellow Dlers ;) about a week ago I released the multiplayer version of my android app STACK4 (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Extrawurst.FIR). The app itself is using the free unity3d engine (C#) for the

Re: EMSI is hiring a D developer

2013-12-16 Thread John Colvin
On Monday, 16 December 2013 at 02:04:56 UTC, Justin Whear wrote: On Sunday, 15 December 2013 at 23:54:12 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: On Sunday, 15 December 2013 at 23:34:55 UTC, eles wrote: Moscow, Idaho Err... Is that in Russia or in the USA? :D I'm sure they never get tired of that joke.

Re: Running D in the Java VM

2013-11-22 Thread John Colvin
On Friday, 22 November 2013 at 13:36:08 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: I don't have any issue with Java and do like the language, but it has lost its place if you care about portable code across mobile platforms. Ironic, much? :p

Re: Start of dmd 2.064 beta program

2013-10-16 Thread John Colvin
On Wednesday, 16 October 2013 at 20:28:42 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On Wednesday, 16 October 2013 at 20:19:17 UTC, Brad Roberts wrote: That's not a what, that's a who. Would you please elaborate on the what and why? I haven't seen any obstructionism coming from anyone in terms of

Re: Dynamic bindings for OpenCL, libsndfile, FANN and BASS libraries

2013-09-05 Thread John Colvin
On Thursday, 5 September 2013 at 12:29:08 UTC, ponce wrote: Greetings, I've updated my derelictified dynamic bindings for: - OpenCL the Computing Library (thanks goes to vuaru) - BASS, an audio library - FANN, a neural network library - libsndfile, a library which read and write a variety of

Re: Arch Linux D news digest

2013-08-25 Thread John Colvin
On Sunday, 25 August 2013 at 19:11:52 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Greetings to fellow Arch Linux users - quite a lot of stuff has happened there recently in relation to D and this should sum it up. Some changes may have not been synchronised to all mirrors yet, so please wait a bit before reporting :)

Re: D reaches 1000 questions on stackoverflow

2013-08-17 Thread John Colvin
On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 09:21:27 UTC, Paul Jurczak wrote: On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 01:05:18 UTC, Tyler Jameson Little wrote: [..] It's true though that there are much better answers (and questions) here than on SO, and I'm beginning to shift my search from Google to the forum

Re: SIMD implementation of dot-product. Benchmarks

2013-08-17 Thread John Colvin
On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 18:50:15 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: http://spiceandmath.blogspot.ru/2013/08/simd-implementation-of-dot-product_17.html Ilya Nice, that's a good speedup. BTW: -march=native automatically implies -mtune=native

Re: SIMD implementation of dot-product. Benchmarks

2013-08-17 Thread John Colvin
On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 19:24:52 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: BTW: -march=native automatically implies -mtune=native Thanks, I`ll remove mtune) It would be really interesting if you could try writing the same code in c, both a scalar version and a version using gcc's vector

Re: D reaches 1000 questions on stackoverflow

2013-08-17 Thread John Colvin
On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 20:12:49 UTC, Paul Jurczak wrote: On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 11:00:20 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 09:21:27 UTC, Paul Jurczak wrote: On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 01:05:18 UTC, Tyler Jameson Little wrote: [..] It's true though

Re: Article: Increasing the D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

2013-07-31 Thread John Colvin
On Wednesday, 31 July 2013 at 21:40:45 UTC, Bill Baxter wrote: Are you serious that you can't fathom how it could be confusing to someone than talking about differences in run times? If you say something is faster than something else you want the two numbers to be something you can relate to.

Re: Article: Increasing the D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

2013-07-29 Thread John Colvin
On Monday, 29 July 2013 at 10:15:31 UTC, JS wrote: On Thursday, 25 July 2013 at 21:27:47 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 7/25/2013 11:49 AM, Dmitry S wrote: I am also confused by the numbers. What I see at the end of the article is 21.56 seconds, and the latest development version does it in

Re: Article: Increasing the D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

2013-07-29 Thread John Colvin
On Monday, 29 July 2013 at 12:35:59 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Monday, 29 July 2013 at 12:17:22 UTC, JS wrote: Even something like for(;;) { if (random() == 3) break; } is decidable(it will halt after some time). That program has a finite average runtime, but its maximum runtime

Re: Article: Increasing the D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

2013-07-29 Thread John Colvin
On Monday, 29 July 2013 at 13:05:10 UTC, JS wrote: On Monday, 29 July 2013 at 12:36:36 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Monday, 29 July 2013 at 12:35:59 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Monday, 29 July 2013 at 12:17:22 UTC, JS wrote: Even something like for(;;) { if (random() == 3) break

Re: Article: Increasing the D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

2013-07-29 Thread John Colvin
On Monday, 29 July 2013 at 18:34:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 7/29/2013 5:28 AM, John Colvin wrote: Seriously... Walter wouldn't have got his mechanical engineering degree if he didn't know how to calculate a speed properly. It's a grade school concept :-) A college freshman physics

Re: Article: Increasing the D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

2013-07-29 Thread John Colvin
On Monday, 29 July 2013 at 19:08:28 UTC, JS wrote: On Monday, 29 July 2013 at 12:28:16 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Monday, 29 July 2013 at 10:15:31 UTC, JS wrote: On Thursday, 25 July 2013 at 21:27:47 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 7/25/2013 11:49 AM, Dmitry S wrote: I am also confused

Re: echo: -n, the next installment

2013-07-27 Thread John Colvin
On Saturday, 27 July 2013 at 01:09:03 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote: On Friday, 26 July 2013 at 00:38:46 UTC, John Colvin wrote: After a few weeks of not getting around to it, here's my second post: http://foreach-hour-life.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/the-first-corner-n-for-echo.html BTW, std.getopt

Re: echo: -n, the next installment

2013-07-27 Thread John Colvin
On Saturday, 27 July 2013 at 12:52:11 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote: And here is the second comment I wanted to put: When parsing the options, you use an if-else. I don't know if its just me, but I find that using a switch is clearer (it's what you do in your second example). It also introduces

echo: -n, the next installment

2013-07-25 Thread John Colvin
After a few weeks of not getting around to it, here's my second post: http://foreach-hour-life.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/the-first-corner-n-for-echo.html

Re: Emacs D Mode version 2.0.6 released

2013-07-23 Thread John Colvin
On Tuesday, 23 July 2013 at 21:59:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 7/22/2013 3:39 AM, Russel Winder wrote: The title says it all really. Need linky! https://github.com/Emacs-D-Mode-Maintainers/Emacs-D-Mode

Re: monarch dodra granted write access to phobos, druntime, and tools

2013-07-22 Thread John Colvin
On Monday, 22 July 2013 at 18:08:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Please join me in congratulating monarch dodra for his admission among our github committers. We're starting with phobos, druntime, and tools access, and if all goes well, we'll extend write rights to dmd also. Thanks,

Re: phobosx.signal ready

2013-07-17 Thread John Colvin
On Wednesday, 17 July 2013 at 19:38:54 UTC, Zoadian wrote: Btw this forum needs an edit button! Not gonna happen as it's not a forum, it's just a forum interface to an NNTP newsgroup and mailing list.

Re: A very basic blog about D

2013-07-15 Thread John Colvin
On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 15:00:43 UTC, John Colvin wrote: I had some free time so I decided I should start a simple blog about D, implementing some unix utilities. I've (unsurprisingly) started with echo. http://foreach-hour-life.blogspot.co.uk/ It's nothing ground-breaking, but every

Re: A very basic blog about D

2013-07-09 Thread John Colvin
On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 15:00:43 UTC, John Colvin wrote: I had some free time so I decided I should start a simple blog about D, implementing some unix utilities. I've (unsurprisingly) started with echo. http://foreach-hour-life.blogspot.co.uk/ It's nothing ground-breaking, but every

Re: A very basic blog about D

2013-07-08 Thread John Colvin
On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 09:08:18 UTC, Leandro Lucarella wrote: John Colvin, el 7 de July a las 22:39 me escribiste: On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 20:08:19 UTC, Leandro Lucarella wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu, el 7 de July a las 09:06 me escribiste: On 7/7/13 8:55 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote

Re: NDC Oslo talk: Generic Programming Galore Using D

2013-07-08 Thread John Colvin
On Thursday, 4 July 2013 at 16:47:36 UTC, 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 With regards to min in the first talk:

Re: A very basic blog about D

2013-07-08 Thread John Colvin
On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 16:08:17 UTC, Leandro Lucarella wrote: John Colvin, el 8 de July a las 12:38 me escribiste: I prefer this one :p http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/echo-msg.html From the opengroup spec: If the first operand is -n, or if any of the operands contain a backslash character

Re: A very basic blog about D

2013-07-08 Thread John Colvin
On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 18:54:30 UTC, Baz wrote: Fedora a few years ago has proposed the D language as a part of their very extremist open source ashole repository. The fact is that D is totally missing from their dev packages (sudo yum i want some only opensource douche stuff even if I have

A very basic blog about D

2013-07-07 Thread John Colvin
I had some free time so I decided I should start a simple blog about D, implementing some unix utilities. I've (unsurprisingly) started with echo. http://foreach-hour-life.blogspot.co.uk/ It's nothing ground-breaking, but every little helps :)

Re: A very basic blog about D

2013-07-07 Thread John Colvin
On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 15:55:31 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 7/7/13 8:00 AM, John Colvin wrote: I had some free time so I decided I should start a simple blog about D, implementing some unix utilities. I've (unsurprisingly) started with echo. http://foreach-hour-life.blogspot.co.uk

Re: A very basic blog about D

2013-07-07 Thread John Colvin
On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 16:06:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 7/7/13 8:55 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Here's a conformant implementation for reference: http://www.scs.stanford.edu/histar/src/pkg/echo/echo.c Hmm, that's actually not so good, it doesn't ensure that I/O was

Re: A very basic blog about D

2013-07-07 Thread John Colvin
On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 20:08:19 UTC, Leandro Lucarella wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu, el 7 de July a las 09:06 me escribiste: On 7/7/13 8:55 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Here's a conformant implementation for reference: http://www.scs.stanford.edu/histar/src/pkg/echo/echo.c Hmm, that's

Re: DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

2013-07-02 Thread John Colvin
On Tuesday, 2 July 2013 at 05:21:35 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Monday, 1 July 2013 at 21:29:21 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Monday, 1 July 2013 at 17:45:59 UTC, Joakim wrote: I wouldn't call closing source that they legally allowed to be closed antisocial. I'd call their contradictory, angry

Re: Why implicit conversion of string literal to char[] does not works?

2013-07-02 Thread John Colvin
On Tuesday, 2 July 2013 at 09:11:44 UTC, Michal Minich wrote: Sorry for posting to announce. In future please post these questions to digitalmars.D.learn The reason you can't implicitly convert a string to a char[] is because string is an alias to immutable(char)[] Therefore, you would be

Re: Why implicit conversion of string literal to char[] does not works?

2013-07-02 Thread John Colvin
On Tuesday, 2 July 2013 at 11:26:59 UTC, Michal Minich wrote: On Tuesday, 2 July 2013 at 10:09:10 UTC, John Colvin wrote: The reason you can't implicitly convert a string to a char[] is because string is an alias to immutable(char)[] Therefore, you would be providing a mutable window

Re: Announcing bottom-up-build - a build system for C/C++/D

2013-06-28 Thread John Colvin
On Thursday, 27 June 2013 at 00:10:37 UTC, Graham St Jack wrote: Having side-by-side comparisons of D against bash scripts and C++ modules had the effect of turning almost all the other team members into D advocates. Any chance we could know what team this is? (Sorry if this is common

Re: DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

2013-06-27 Thread John Colvin
On Thursday, 27 June 2013 at 13:18:01 UTC, Joakim wrote: As I said earlier, I'm done with this debate. There is no point talking to people who make blatantly ignorant statements like, Binary blobs are the exception rather than the rule in Linux, and many hardware vendors would flat out say

Re: An idea - make dlang.org a fundation

2013-06-27 Thread John Colvin
On Thursday, 27 June 2013 at 21:39:28 UTC, ixid wrote: -You could start taking donations and hire some people to work on D. This doesn't work as it's a volunteer project. Why should someone get paid when others give their time for free? It would create conflict while being a less effective

Re: DConf 2013 Day 3 Talk 1: Metaprogramming in the Real World by Don Clugston

2013-06-11 Thread John Colvin
On Tuesday, 11 June 2013 at 15:28:09 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: hah, I have a PV solar module sitting in my house right now... I'll be installing it (and the rest of my setup) as soon as I have another two or the grand to spend. It is great stuff, solar power is almost free money if you can

Re: DConf 2013 Day 3 Talk 1: Metaprogramming in the Real World by Don Clugston

2013-06-11 Thread John Colvin
On Tuesday, 11 June 2013 at 16:19:20 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Tuesday, 11 June 2013 at 15:28:09 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: hah, I have a PV solar module sitting in my house right now... I'll be installing it (and the rest of my setup) as soon as I have another two or the grand to spend

Re: DConf 2013 Day 3 Talk 1: Metaprogramming in the Real World by Don Clugston

2013-06-11 Thread John Colvin
On Tuesday, 11 June 2013 at 19:38:13 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:21:31 -0400, John Colvin john.loughran.col...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, 11 June 2013 at 18:47:35 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/11/2013 8:28 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: It is great stuff, solar power

Re: DConf 2013 Day 3 Talk 1: Metaprogramming in the Real World by Don Clugston

2013-06-11 Thread John Colvin
On Tuesday, 11 June 2013 at 19:54:34 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:44:35 -0400, John Colvin john.loughran.col...@gmail.com wrote: It's not ready to roll out as the energy of the future, but in certain circumstances it's a good deal for an individual. It's

Re: DConf 2013 Day 3 Talk 1: Metaprogramming in the Real World by Don Clugston

2013-06-11 Thread John Colvin
On Tuesday, 11 June 2013 at 21:29:49 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/11/2013 2:19 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Define financially better off :) You have mo' moolah. Is their any other definition? And this is not even a fair conversation, because there are so many variables to consider.

Re: DConf 2013 Day 3 Talk 1: Metaprogramming in the Real World by Don Clugston

2013-06-11 Thread John Colvin
On Tuesday, 11 June 2013 at 20:02:29 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/11/2013 12:21 PM, John Colvin wrote: On Tuesday, 11 June 2013 at 18:47:35 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/11/2013 8:28 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: It is great stuff, solar power is almost free money if you can wait 20 years

Re: DConf 2013 Day 3 Talk 1: Metaprogramming in the Real World by Don Clugston

2013-06-11 Thread John Colvin
On Tuesday, 11 June 2013 at 21:21:57 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: For example, my daily driver is an '89 Bronco II. Had to look that up on wikipedia. Yikes, don't corner too fast in that thing, we need you alive!

Re: DConf 2013 Day 2 Talk 3: C# to D by Adam Wilson

2013-05-31 Thread John Colvin
On Friday, 31 May 2013 at 17:41:42 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: On Fri, 31 May 2013 05:33:21 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1feem1/dconf_2013_day_2_talk_3_from_c_to_d_by_adam_wilson/ {Enj,Destr}oy! Andrei I want to

Re: What happened to next DConf 2013 talk: Shared libraries in D by Martin Nowak?

2013-05-29 Thread John Colvin
On Wednesday, 29 May 2013 at 12:17:59 UTC, Ettienne Gilbert wrote: Hi, What happened with the next video/slide release? I was under the impression that there was agreement that the releases will be done every 3 days or so. So far: Opening Keynote by Walter Bright: video and slides

Re: DConf 2013 Day 1 Talk 2: Copy and Move Semantics in D by Ali Cehreli

2013-05-12 Thread John Colvin
On Sunday, 12 May 2013 at 00:22:58 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/11/13 7:39 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Furthermore, my whole point was nothing more than to merely suggest that *maybe* the delay should simply be somewhat less, *not* a demand or expectation, and *not* even a suggestion

Re: Shameless autopromotion : type safe tagged union in D

2013-05-10 Thread John Colvin
On Friday, 10 May 2013 at 12:32:50 UTC, deadalnix wrote: http://www.deadalnix.me/2013/05/10/type-safe-tagged-union-in-d-programming-language/ A trick that I used to use more and more, so I ended up creating a generic solution and wrote an article about it. Fancy some proof-reading again?

Re: Shameless autopromotion : type safe tagged union in D

2013-05-10 Thread John Colvin
On Friday, 10 May 2013 at 12:47:17 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Friday, 10 May 2013 at 12:32:50 UTC, deadalnix wrote: http://www.deadalnix.me/2013/05/10/type-safe-tagged-union-in-d-programming-language/ A trick that I used to use more and more, so I ended up creating a generic solution

Re: Shameless autopromotion : type safe tagged union in D

2013-05-10 Thread John Colvin
On Friday, 10 May 2013 at 13:51:11 UTC, deadalnix wrote: Awesome, I'll update the article. Andrei pointed out that the title needed fixing: I suggest: Type-safe tagged unions in the D programming language. Type-safe tagged unions in D.

Re: Shameless autopromotion : type safe tagged union in D

2013-05-10 Thread John Colvin
On Friday, 10 May 2013 at 14:37:49 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/10/13 8:32 AM, deadalnix wrote: http://www.deadalnix.me/2013/05/10/type-safe-tagged-union-in-d-programming-language/ A trick that I used to use more and more, so I ended up creating a generic solution and wrote an

Re: DConf 2013 Day 1 Talk 2: Copy and Move Semantics in D by Ali Cehreli

2013-05-10 Thread John Colvin
On Friday, 10 May 2013 at 12:11:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/10/13 8:08 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPr2UspS0fE Andrei Vote up! http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1e2boo/dconf_2013_day_1_talk_2_copy_and_move_semantics/ Andrei

Re: DConf 2013 Opening Keynote by Walter Bright: video and slides available

2013-05-08 Thread John Colvin
On Wednesday, 8 May 2013 at 18:51:39 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/8/13 12:46 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Go to http://dconf.org/talks/bright.html We're finally live! Talk slides are hosted on dconf.org, and video is on youtube. Check it out!

Re: DConf 2013 Opening Keynote by Walter Bright: video and slides available

2013-05-08 Thread John Colvin
On Wednesday, 8 May 2013 at 20:49:15 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On Wed, 08 May 2013 00:46:29 -0400 Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: Go to http://dconf.org/talks/bright.html Andrei I've made a torrent (now seeding) with the video and slides. Hopefully it works ok,

Re: DConf 2013 Opening Keynote by Walter Bright: video and slides available

2013-05-08 Thread John Colvin
On Wednesday, 8 May 2013 at 21:42:14 UTC, Bill Baxter wrote: Sound seems fine to me. If you can't stand listening to YouTube videos because of the audio quality... you might be an audiophile. And the vid quality is great. Love the multiple camera angles. --bb Nothing wrong with audio

Re: DConf 2013 Opening Keynote by Walter Bright: video and slides available

2013-05-08 Thread John Colvin
On Wednesday, 8 May 2013 at 21:01:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/8/13 4:17 PM, John Colvin wrote: On Wednesday, 8 May 2013 at 18:51:39 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/8/13 12:46 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Go to http://dconf.org/talks/bright.html We're finally live! Talk

Re: std.process Accepted!

2013-04-21 Thread John Colvin
On Saturday, 20 April 2013 at 15:55:30 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote: For now I say we continue as before, and work toward this new approach. Being relatively new to this community, what is the status quo for including new modules / rewrites of old modules? At some point in the next few days

Re: std.process Accepted!

2013-04-21 Thread John Colvin
On Sunday, 21 April 2013 at 18:55:06 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:23:21 +0200 John Colvin john.loughran.col...@gmail.com wrote: At some point in the next few days will std.process just become the new version? In Git master, yes. And then it'll be part of the next

Re: Justin Bieber booked for Dconf 2013!

2013-04-03 Thread John Colvin
On Wednesday, 3 April 2013 at 03:16:47 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:17:26 -0400, deadalnix deadal...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, 1 April 2013 at 21:05:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I know you are all Bieber fans, so you'll be please to know he will be doing the

Re: Four new committers on github: AndrejMitrovic, ibuclaw, klickverbot, and rainers

2013-03-08 Thread John Colvin
On Friday, 8 March 2013 at 19:17:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/8/2013 7:31 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: c) Committer already spent as much (if not more) time by looking through the pull. Doing a trivial cleanup after that should be a semi-automated five minute job. It doesn't scale to

Re: Shared Libraries [was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release]

2013-01-09 Thread John Colvin
On Wednesday, 9 January 2013 at 10:38:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/9/2013 2:28 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2013-01-09 11:26, Jacob Carlborg wrote: I think it sounds like that but I don't know. I'm just trying to figure out how TLS is implemented on Mac OS X 10.7+. Also, there's

Re: UIs for Linux [ was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release ]

2013-01-04 Thread John Colvin
On Thursday, 3 January 2013 at 15:54:03 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: I don't know, there are many users out there who rather like Unity too... Seeing as linux mint has such a big following these days, Cinnamon is quite a big contender. I don't use mint any more, but cinnamon works great on a

Re: Getting ready for 2.061

2012-12-25 Thread John Colvin
On Tuesday, 25 December 2012 at 03:09:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/24/2012 1:38 PM, John Colvin wrote: If people aren't fussy about the EULA (which is apparently not valid in the EU anyway) I'd rather we stick to the EULA, much as I don't like them. Ok, I guess it's worth not pissing

Re: Getting ready for 2.061

2012-12-24 Thread John Colvin
On Monday, 24 December 2012 at 13:05:08 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2012-12-24 13:52, Rory McGuire wrote: What kind of computers would we need to do these tests? I have some spare resources for one or two VPS. I have no idea how many are need to run tests on all branches. Brad would know

Re: DConf 2013: Call for Submissions is now live!

2012-12-18 Thread John Colvin
On Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 06:07:42 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, We're very excited to announce the Call for Submissions for DConf 2013. It's barebones right now but it has all of the information needed to get everyone started! http://dconf.org Share away! We have

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