Re: bool (was DConf 2019 AGM Livestream)

2019-05-12 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, May 12, 2019 8:50:33 AM MDT Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars- d-announce wrote: > On 5/12/19 1:34 PM, Nicholas Wilson wrote: > > However in this case the community consensus is that the chain of > > reasoning you have used to arrive at your decision is wrong. > > It's a simple enough

Re: bool (was DConf 2019 AGM Livestream)

2019-05-12 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, May 12, 2019 2:58:58 PM MDT Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > On Sunday, 12 May 2019 at 14:50:33 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > > On 5/12/19 1:34 PM, Nicholas Wilson wrote: > >> However in this case the community consensus is that the chain > >> of reasoning you hav

Re: Static Webpages of Forum Threads

2019-05-13 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, May 13, 2019 1:45:27 AM MDT Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > I run it manually whenever I think of it, which is erratically, because > I've tried repeatedly to set up a cron job to do it, but somehow it never > runs. Bah. Clearly, you're not yelling at it enough. ;) -

Re: bool (was DConf 2019 AGM Livestream)

2019-05-15 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, May 14, 2019 7:15:43 PM MDT Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars- d-announce wrote: > On 5/14/19 2:00 AM, Mike Franklin wrote: > > On Wednesday, 15 May 2019 at 00:23:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > >> There are many clowny things in D, of which bool is at best somewhere > >> beyond

Re: Phobos is now compiled with -preview=dip1000

2019-05-17 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, May 16, 2019 11:22:30 PM MDT Mike Franklin via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > I consider it a bug that the compiler doesn't emit an error when > using attributes on types for which they are not intended. As in you think that something like auto foo(scope int i) {...} should be ill

Re: Phobos is now compiled with -preview=dip1000

2019-05-17 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, May 17, 2019 11:25:40 AM MDT Meta via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > I don't want to *restrict* the lifetime of a heap allocation. I > want the compiler to recognize that the lifetime of my original > data is the same as the processed output, and thus allow my code > to compile. It is

Re: DIP 1013--The Deprecation Process--Formal Assessment

2019-06-12 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, June 12, 2019 2:47:23 AM MDT Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars- d-announce wrote: > On Monday, 10 June 2019 at 13:49:27 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: > > DIP 1013, "The Deprecation Process", has been accepted. > > ... > > https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/accepted/DIP1013.md > >

Re: Release D 2.087.0

2019-07-04 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, July 4, 2019 6:48:15 AM MDT Robert M. Münch via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > On 2019-07-04 10:11:18 +, Mike Franklin said: > > I don't know what digger is doing, but from the error messages, it > > appears that the new files in `rt/array` can't be found. I believe the > > buil

Re: Release Candidate [was: Re: Beta 2.087.0]

2019-07-04 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, July 3, 2019 1:30:37 AM MDT Andre Pany via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > Thanks, you helped me to find the issue. The productive coding > looks like this: > > import std.algorithm : all; > > void main() > { > import std.ascii : isAlpha, isDigit; > assert("abc123".all!(c =

Re: DIP 1021--Argument Ownership and Function Calls--Formal Assessment

2019-10-22 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, October 21, 2019 6:59:21 AM MDT Exil via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > > This proposal is one step toward a larger goal outlined in the > > > > blog post ['Ownership and Borrowing in > > D'](https://dlang.org/blog/2019/07/15/ownership-and-borrowing-in-d/). > > That's the only line th

Re: Release D 2.089.0

2019-11-11 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, November 7, 2019 3:25:46 AM MST Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > On Wednesday, 6 November 2019 at 14:09:35 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: > > Are you putting libs in the compiler's directory tree? Or are > > you editing sc.ini/dmd.conf? You really shouldn't be doing the > > fo

Re: DIP1028 - Rationale for accepting as is

2020-05-27 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, May 22, 2020 12:09:16 PM MDT rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > It kept being swapped about in the discussion thread, so I have been a > little on edge over people using non-extern(D). Because linkage doesn't > mean anything to anything but to cpu and linker in this di

Re: DIP1028 - Rationale for accepting as is

2020-05-27 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, May 22, 2020 9:29:03 AM MDT Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On 22.05.20 16:49, bachmeier wrote: > > I don't see that marking an extern(C) function @trusted buys you > > anything, at least not until you can provide a compiler guarantee for > > arbitrary C code. > > It buys

Re: DIP1028 - Rationale for accepting as is

2020-05-27 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, May 27, 2020 6:24:25 PM MDT Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars- d-announce wrote: > On 5/27/20 9:42 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: > > On Wednesday, 27 May 2020 at 09:50:50 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > >> Un-annotated C declarations should be a red flag to any competent QA > >> team. Reco

Re: DIP1028 - Rationale for accepting as is

2020-05-27 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, May 27, 2020 8:13:52 PM MDT Bruce Carneal via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > On Thursday, 28 May 2020 at 01:14:43 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > On Friday, May 22, 2020 12:09:16 PM MDT rikki cattermole via > > > > Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > >> [...] > > > > Except that the l

Re: Rationale for accepting DIP 1028 as is

2020-05-27 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, May 26, 2020 8:58:16 PM MDT Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > On 5/26/20 12:31 PM, Bruce Carneal wrote: > > Currently a machine checked @safe function calling an unannotated extern > > C routine will error out during compilation. This is great as the C > > routine

Re: Rationale for accepting DIP 1028 as is

2020-05-27 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, May 27, 2020 3:30:32 AM MDT Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars- d-announce wrote: > On 5/27/20 1:49 AM, Walter Bright wrote: > > On 5/26/2020 9:31 AM, Bruce Carneal wrote: > >> Currently a machine checked @safe function calling an unannotated > >> extern C routine will error out duri

Re: Rationale for accepting DIP 1028 as is

2020-05-28 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, May 28, 2020 2:50:44 AM MDT Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 4:56 AM Jonathan M Davis via > > Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > > As far as I can tell, Walter understands the issues but fundamentally > > disagrees with pret

Re: DIP 1028 "Make @safe the Default" is dead

2020-05-29 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, May 29, 2020 6:48:20 AM MDT Meta via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Friday, 29 May 2020 at 12:22:07 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer > > wrote: > > On 5/29/20 12:53 AM, Walter Bright wrote: > >> The subject says it all. > >> > >> If you care about memory safety, I recommending adding `safe:

Re: DIP 1028 "Make @safe the Default" is dead

2020-05-29 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, May 28, 2020 10:53:07 PM MDT Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > The subject says it all. > > If you care about memory safety, I recommending adding `safe:` as the first > line in all your project modules, and annotate individual functions > otherwise as necessary. For m

Re: DConf '23 Talk Videos

2023-09-20 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, September 20, 2023 6:43:49 AM MDT Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > On Wednesday, 20 September 2023 at 08:41:01 UTC, Stefan Koch > > wrote: > > My feeling is this could be a faulty power supply. > > You should try a new PSU first. > > > > How old is the hardware? > > It

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: 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 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"

2014-05-29 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, 29 May 2014 08:23:26 +0200 Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > In any case, simply reversing the order for static array types using > an ad-hoc rewrite rule would be a huge wart, even more severe than > the other points you raised, and we definitely wouldn't be trading > one ki

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

2014-05-29 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, 29 May 2014 01:31:44 -0700 Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On 05/29/2014 12:59 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce > wrote: > > > So, unfortunately, I think that we're stuck. > > You make it sound like there is a problem. ;) >

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

2014-05-29 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, 29 May 2014 07:32:48 -0700 Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On 05/29/2014 03:00 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce > wrote: > > I don't see how you could argue that they don't have > multi-dimensional arrays. > > Their specs

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

2014-05-30 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Fri, 30 May 2014 11:48:56 + Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Friday, 30 May 2014 at 11:46:35 UTC, w0rp wrote: > > I received my copy this morning, earlier than I thought I > > would. I shall check it out over the weekend. I suspect I'll > > probably know a lot of the things in

Re: Real time captioning of D presentations

2014-06-02 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 10:00:17 -0700 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On 6/2/2014 8:46 AM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > > However, what you can't do is change the accent to one that you may > > better understand. I know a lot of europeans sometimes don't quite >

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-04 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, 04 Jun 2014 07:33:01 + Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Wednesday, 4 June 2014 at 06:19:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu > wrote: > > http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27911b/conversation_with_andrei_alexandrescu_all_things/ > > wtf, the "Mid Quality" video is 1280x

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-05 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 09:30:44 +0200 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On 6/5/14, 7:59 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > > So let me get this straight: There are programmers out there who > > find the occasional type annotations on some declarations to be > > significantly more wor

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-05 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 12:46:23 + Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 09:43:13 UTC, Jonathan M Davis via > Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > > On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 09:30:44 +0200 > > Though I confess what horrifies me the most about dynami

Re: Chuck Allison's talk is up

2014-06-05 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 23:51:42 + Olivier Henley via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > ... > > Sorry I know its annoying to have someone telling you guys what > to do. I would rather post a sticky thread, referencing Dicebot's > channel, myself but I'm brand new here and don't have any > credentia

Re: DMD 2.066 Alpha

2014-06-14 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 12:00:39 -0700 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On 6/13/14, 10:15 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > > On 6/13/2014 12:49 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > >> > >> Being able to negate the "final:" > >> label is nice to have but not a must. Adding a keyword for

Re: D:YAML 0.5 (also, D:YAML 0.4.5, TinyEndian 0.1)

2014-08-06 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 6 August 2014 at 17:09:50 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote: D:YAML is a YAML parser and emitter for D. Thanks a lot for working on this. I actually really hate YAML, but I'm forced to work with it sometimes, and this library saved me from having to write a parser for it myself. - Jonathan

Re: DMD v2.066.0-rc1

2014-08-07 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 7 August 2014 at 17:05:29 UTC, Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: I've never encountered anybody try and use MSC from the command line in about 15 years professionally. LOL. That's almost always how I use VS when I'm forced to use it at work. As soon as I figured out that I co

Re: DMD v2.066.0-rc1

2014-08-11 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 11 August 2014 at 16:29:10 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 8/9/2014 10:57 AM, Dicebot wrote: actually avoided learning anything out of the default comfort zone and called that _professional attitude_. People have some truly bizarre ideas about what constitutes professionalism. At a

Re: DMD v2.066.0-rc1

2014-08-14 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 14 August 2014 at 19:14:32 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 8/7/2014 1:05 PM, Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: That's what I mean about this culture; it's the opposite of linux, and it outright rejects practises that are linux-like. While I don't doubt that's true of a lot

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-18 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 00:23:22 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 8/18/2014 7:14 PM, Dicebot wrote: I also propose to start 2.067 beta branch right now and declare it yet another bug-fixing release. Seconded. Regardless of whether we start another release going that quickly or not, I

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-18 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 04:26:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Well that's what happened - someone started 2.067. What's the advantage of doing this? Now we need to worry about master and 2.067 instead of just master. -- Andrei Well, what you do at that point is just fix all of the r

Re: Fix #2529: explicit protection package #3651

2014-08-19 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 17:11:19 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 17:08:25 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 8/19/2014 7:01 AM, Dicebot wrote: > Walter, now that release is out can you please state your opinion about > https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/3651 ? I

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-21 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 August 2014 at 15:20:49 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote: "Jacob Carlborg" wrote in message news:lt50m0$20f0$1...@digitalmars.com... > Support for C++ templates was in the last release, and the > new pull > request is only for special mangling of some stl > declarations. You see, I

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-21 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 08:14:41 UTC, novice2 wrote: http://dlang.org/changelog.html Version D 2.066 August 18, 2014 ... Phobos enhancements 1.Bugzilla 3780: getopt improvements by Igor Lesik Sorry, i can't find this improvements nor in getopt.d nor in http://dlang.org/phobos/std_getopt.

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-21 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 August 2014 at 20:33:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 8/21/2014 11:54 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: LOL. Yeah, well, it would be ni going to support C+ce if we could get an actual list of the C++ features that D currently supports somewhere (and how to use them if it's not obvious)

Re: core.stdcpp

2014-08-26 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 07:00:26 + Ola Fosheim Gr via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Tuesday, 26 August 2014 at 06:35:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > > The implementation of it, however, is going to be ugly and very > > specific to each C++ compiler. The user shouldn't need to have > > to see

Re: Blog post on hidden treasure in the D standard library.

2014-08-30 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 10:44:18 + safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 07:59:16 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote: > > Stop being such a grammar nazi. > I didn't bring it up because I felt like being pedantic, I brought it up as a suggestion to make it more plea

Re: DConf 2015 Call for Submissions is now open

2015-01-07 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, January 07, 2015 07:37:10 Mengu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > is it crazy to think that there are some people somewhere who > can't stand D and anything D related? Well, _I_ wouldn't want to see a D on my report card. ;) - Jonathan M Davis

Re: DConf 2015 Call for Submissions is now open

2015-01-07 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, January 06, 2015 15:24:19 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > Hello, > > > Exciting times! DConf 2015 will take place May 27-29 2015 at Utah Valley > University in Orem, UT. LOL. My brother is graduating from there about a month before that. > The call for submiss

Re: DConf 2015 Call for Submissions is now open

2015-01-08 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, January 08, 2015 10:31:37 Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On 6 January 2015 at 23:24, Andrei Alexandrescu via > Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > > Hello, > > > > > > Exciting times! DConf 2015 will take place May 27-29 2015 at Utah Valley > > University in Orem, UT. >

Re: DConf 2015 Call for Submissions is now open

2015-01-13 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, January 13, 2015 14:39:42 Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > Daniel prefers to talk through other peoples talks. :o) Or to work on the compiler during their talks. ;) - Jonathan M Davis

Re: DConf 2015 Call for Submissions is now open

2015-01-14 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, January 15, 2015 01:18:52 Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > > "Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce" wrote in message > > news:mailman.4595.1421160931.9932.digitalmars-d-annou...@puremagic.com... > > > > On Tuesday, January

Re: 2015 H1 Vision

2015-02-01 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, February 01, 2015 08:41:54 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On 2/1/15 7:48 AM, Mathias LANG wrote: > > This is arguably the most well-defined goal here, but at the same time, > > it sounds strange to judge the contributions by the numbers of pull > > request. We c

Re: Announcement: DConf 2017 Hackathon May 7

2017-02-14 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, February 14, 2017 13:17:02 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > I am happy to announce that there will be a special addition to this > year's DConf. > > The conference will not end after the three days of talks but > continue on into Sunday for a hackathon during

Re: A New Import Idiom`

2017-02-14 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 00:01:42 Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > On 2/14/17 3:32 AM, Jerry wrote: > > Anyways yes this is kind of cool and fascinating how it works, but that > > aside I hope I never see this used in phobos. Does anyone else feel this > > way? > > +1 >

Re: Need help

2017-03-15 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, March 15, 2017 23:04:50 rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > Oh relax, its a freelance job advertisement as well (payment for bug to > be fixed). If that wasn't there then yeah not appropriate. But its > there, so I say it was a good place :) I'm inclined to agree wi

Re: Need help

2017-03-16 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, March 15, 2017 12:24:14 Jack Applegame via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > On Wednesday, 15 March 2017 at 11:09:10 UTC, Jonathan M Davis > > wrote: > > I'm inclined to agree with David on this one, but I really > > don't want to argue about it. Just remember that this newsgroup > > i

Re: dmd Backend converted to Boost License

2017-04-07 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, April 07, 2017 08:14:40 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6680 > > Yes, this is for real! Symantec has given their permission to relicense > it. Thank you, Symantec! Well, this is certainly great news. Does this make dmd the only compi

Re: dmd Backend converted to Boost License

2017-04-07 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, April 07, 2017 20:02:52 Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Friday, 7 April 2017 at 19:37:14 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > From what I've seen, the fact that we use it so heavily in the > > D community is abnormal > > AFAIK the reasons it was chosen were > > 1. It's

Re: InfoWorld article on the open sourcing of dmd

2017-04-10 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, April 10, 2017 09:24:16 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > http://www.infoworld.com/article/3188427/application-development/free-at-l > ast-d-languages-official-compiler-is-open-source.html Hmmm. This article makes it sound like all of dmd was closed-source rather

Re: "Competitive Advantage with D" is one of the keynotes at C++Now 2017

2017-04-11 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, April 10, 2017 23:08:16 Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > I will be presenting D as a time-saving tool at C++Now: > >http://cppnow.org/ > > I have to say it took me a very long time to come up with the title and > the abstract. How could I sell D to C++ experts? Luckil

Re: Cap'n Proto for D v0.1.2

2017-04-20 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, April 18, 2017 18:09:54 Thomas Brix Larsen via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > "Cap’n Proto is an insanely fast data interchange format and > capability-based RPC system. Think JSON, except binary. Or think > Protocol Buffers, except faster." > > This is the initial public release of m

Re: DMD now has colorized syntax highlighting in error messages

2017-05-15 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, May 14, 2017 21:07:57 H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > I hate colors, for the reason you stated above: they usually clash with > my choice of terminal default color settings. Also, I find colors a big > distraction to the eye when I'm trying to focus. I don't even like >

Re: Libdivide ported to D

2017-05-15 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, May 14, 2017 16:20:21 David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Sunday, 14 May 2017 at 15:30:19 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > > On 5/14/2017 3:39 AM, Tomer Filiba wrote: > >> Of course it only applies to runtime division -- the compiler > >> can do the same if > >> the diviso

Re: DMD now has colorized syntax highlighting in error messages

2017-05-16 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, May 16, 2017 08:11:21 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On 5/16/2017 7:17 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: > > So again it is NOT color that bothers me. It is OVERUSE of color for > > stuff that isn't important to read the message which dilutes the > > meaning of color. It isn'

Re: Faster Command Line Tools in D

2017-05-25 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, May 25, 2017 08:46:17 Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > std.string, std.array, and std.algorithm all have cross-polination when > it comes to array operations. It has to do with the history of when the > modules were introduced. Not only that, but over time, th

Re: Faster Command Line Tools in D

2017-05-25 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, May 25, 2017 14:17:27 Suliman via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > > std.string, std.array, and std.algorithm all have > > cross-polination when it comes to array operations. It has to > > do with the history of when the modules were introduced. > > Is there any plan to deprecate all sp

Re: DCompute is now in the master branch of LDC

2017-05-30 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, May 30, 2017 19:23:42 Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 18:06:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > > I fear the conversation will go like this, like it has for me: > > N: DCompute > > W: What's DCompute? > > N: Enables GPU programming with D > >

Re: DCompute is now in the master branch of LDC

2017-05-31 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, May 31, 2017 09:07:16 ParticlePeter via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 18:06:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > > On 5/30/2017 5:12 AM, Nicholas Wilson wrote: > >> Ah, isn't English wonderful. I guess Walter is suffering the > >> inverse of the Calvin & Hobbes

Re: DCompute is now in the master branch of LDC

2017-05-31 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, May 31, 2017 18:55:14 bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Wednesday, 31 May 2017 at 12:28:47 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote: > > But can we please reduce the bike shedding > > Marketing is only bike shedding if you don't care how many people > make use of your work. That ma

Re: D for Android beta

2017-06-02 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, June 01, 2017 19:31:28 Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > The beta release of ldc 1.3, the llvm-based D compiler, is now > out: > > https://github.com/joakim-noah/android/releases > > It is accompanied by a non-trivial sample app from the Android > NDK, ported from C++ to about

Re: DIP 1003 (Remove body as a Keyword) Accepted!

2017-06-02 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, June 03, 2017 02:00:13 Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > I recommend a longer deprecation cycle than usual for this, as > this will break many legacy libraries that don't get maintained > often. A period of two years sounds about right. For Phobos, that _is_ the norma

Re: DIP 1003 (Remove body as a Keyword) Accepted!

2017-06-03 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, June 02, 2017 23:44:21 H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 04:56:40AM +, MysticZach via > Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: [...] > > > Yes, congratulations are in order. Although those of us who were > > questioning the need for any keyword at all in

Re: DIP 1003 (Remove body as a Keyword) Accepted!

2017-06-03 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, June 03, 2017 17:16:52 Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > On 2017-06-02 16:17, Mike Parker wrote: > > Congratulations are in order for Jared Hanson. Walter and Andrei have > > approved his proposal to remove body as a keyword. I've added a summary > > of their decision

Re: DIP 1003 (Remove body as a Keyword) Accepted!

2017-06-04 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, June 04, 2017 05:56:15 Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Saturday, 3 June 2017 at 06:09:21 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > On Saturday, June 03, 2017 02:00:13 Jack Stouffer via > > > > Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > >> I recommend a longer deprecation cycle than usu

Re: Compile-Time Sort in D

2017-06-07 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, June 08, 2017 01:08:42 Jon Degenhardt via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > I was surprised as well, pleasantly of course. Using a simple > example may have helped. Personally, I'm not bothered by the > specific instances of negative feedback on Reddit. It's hard to > write a post that

Re: Go Your Own Way (Part One: The Stack)

2017-07-07 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, July 7, 2017 1:48:47 PM MDT Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > I would add a note to the "static arrays are interchangeable with > dynamic arrays" saying that you can... and probably should > explicitly slice them with `[]`. > > The implicit slice is one of what I see as

Re: dub zsh completion

2017-08-23 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, August 22, 2017 22:35:53 Johannes Loher via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > I created a zsh completion script for dub. It is not perfect, but > it does many things well already. You can find it here: > https://github.com/ghost91-/dub-zsh-completion. > > I have seen that bash and fish c

Re: D as a Better C

2017-08-23 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, August 23, 2017 13:12:04 Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > To coincide with the improvements to -betterC in the upcoming DMD > 2.076, Walter has published a new article on the D blog about > what it is and why to use it. A fun read. And I'm personally > happy to see the

Hong Kong dlang Meetup

2017-09-04 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
Several of us from the D community will be in Hong Kong on a business trip next week (me, John Colvin, Atila Neves, and Ilya Yaroshenko), and our client, Symmetry Investments[1], has offered to sponsor a dlang meetup. We haven't decided when exactly to meet up yet, but we're looking to meet up some

Re: Hong Kong dlang Meetup

2017-09-05 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, September 05, 2017 00:16:54 Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > On Monday, 4 September 2017 at 19:25:59 UTC, Jonathan M Davis > > wrote: > > Several of us from the D community will be in Hong Kong on a > > business trip next week (me, John Colvin, Atila Neves, and Ilya

Re: Hong Kong dlang Meetup

2017-09-05 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, September 05, 2017 10:19:10 sarn via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Monday, 4 September 2017 at 19:25:59 UTC, Jonathan M Davis > > wrote: > > Several of us from the D community will be in Hong Kong on a > > business trip next week (me, John Colvin, Atila Neves, and Ilya > > Yaroshe

Re: Silicon Valley D Meetup - September 28, 2017 - "Open Methods: From C++ to D" by Jean-Louis Leroy

2017-09-30 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, September 30, 2017 15:30:48 Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > On 09/30/2017 01:34 PM, Mengu wrote: > > On Friday, 29 September 2017 at 21:06:56 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: > >> The slides: > >> https://jll63.github.io/openmethods.d/dlang-meetup-2017-09-28/ > >> > >> U

Re: Release D v2.076.1

2017-10-12 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, October 12, 2017 14:39:27 b4s1L3 via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > Also i'd like to say that the policy that is that regression > fixes are commited on stable and that the fact that they only > come to master in a "sync operation" is a problem. > > In the travis yaml we have to test

Re: Unit Testing in Action

2017-10-25 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, October 24, 2017 19:15:35 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > On 10/24/2017 3:06 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote: > > It would be very useful if the compiler could do that automatically. > > On 10/24/2017 2:58 PM, qznc wrote: > > The information is there just not expressed in a us

Re: Beta 2.077.1

2017-11-26 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, November 26, 2017 03:30:27 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > Too late for RAII for betterC? :-( This is a point release, and adding RAII to betterC is a new feature. Normally, only bug fixes are supposed to go in point releases. - Jonathan M Davis

[OT] Re: D User Survey

2017-12-10 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, December 10, 2017 04:02:46 Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > On 12/09/2017 07:58 AM, wobbles wrote: > > On Thursday, 7 December 2017 at 14:31:01 UTC, Chris wrote: > > I didn't know Ireland was so > > > >> unknown, unless, of course, I'm supposed to choose "Great Bri

Re: run.dlang.io - a modern way to run D code

2017-12-12 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, December 13, 2017 06:53:02 rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > On 13/12/2017 6:46 AM, bauss wrote: > > On Wednesday, 13 December 2017 at 01:14:26 UTC, Seb wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 13 December 2017 at 00:32:11 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: > >>> On 12/12/2017 6:37 PM,

Re: run.dlang.io - a modern way to run D code

2017-12-13 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, December 13, 2017 08:04:19 rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > On 13/12/2017 7:56 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > On Wednesday, December 13, 2017 06:53:02 rikki cattermole via > > Digitalmars-d-> > > announce wrote: > >> On 13/12/2017 6:46 AM, bauss wrote: > >>> On W

Re: run.dlang.io - a modern way to run D code

2017-12-13 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, December 13, 2017 08:33:36 rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > On 13/12/2017 8:11 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > On Wednesday, December 13, 2017 08:04:19 rikki cattermole via > > Digitalmars-d-> > > announce wrote: > >> On 13/12/2017 7:56 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

Re: Article: Fuzzing D code with LDC

2018-01-15 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, January 15, 2018 09:49:24 Temtaime via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Saturday, 13 January 2018 at 23:59:52 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote: > > It's been a work-in-progress for half a year, but finished now: > > > > http://johanengelen.github.io/ldc/2018/01/14/Fuzzing-with-LDC.html > > >

dxml 0.1.0 released

2018-02-09 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
I have multiple projects that need an XML parser, and std_experimental_xml is clearly going nowhere, with the guy who wrote it having disappeared into the ether, so I decided to break down and write one. I've kind of wanted to for years, but I didn't want to spend the time on it. However, sometime

Re: dxml 0.1.0 released

2018-02-09 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, February 09, 2018 13:47:52 H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > As for DTDs, perhaps it might be enough to make normalize() configurable > with some way to specify additional entities that may be defined in the > DTD? Once that's possible, I'd say it's Good Enough(tm), since

Re: dxml 0.1.0 released

2018-02-10 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, February 10, 2018 16:14:41 Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > On 2018-02-09 22:15, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > Currently, dxml contains only a range-based StAX / pull parser and > > related helper functions, but the plan is to add a DOM parser as well > > as two writer

Re: dxml 0.1.0 released

2018-02-10 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, February 10, 2018 12:04:48 Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 21:15:33 UTC, Jonathan M Davis > > wrote: > > I have multiple projects that need an XML parser, and > > std_experimental_xml is clearly going nowhere, with the guy who > > wrote it having

Re: dxml 0.1.0 released

2018-02-10 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, February 10, 2018 10:27:42 Stefan via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > great work, Jonathan. Thank you. > We were missing xml for a long time and did so many hacks just to > get xml somehow parsed. LOL. Actually, one of the helper functions in std.datetime.timezone that has to deal wi

Re: dxml 0.1.0 released

2018-02-10 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, February 10, 2018 19:53:48 Jesse Phillips via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 21:15:33 UTC, Jonathan M Davis > > wrote: > > Hopefully, the documentation is clear enough, but obviously, > > I'm not the best judge of that. So, have at it. > > > > Documentat

Re: dxml 0.1.0 released

2018-02-10 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, February 10, 2018 21:10:28 Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Saturday, 10 February 2018 at 18:57:53 UTC, Jonathan M Davis > > wrote: > > On Saturday, February 10, 2018 16:14:41 Jacob Carlborg via > > > > Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > >> On 2018-02-09 22:15, Jonathan M D

Re: dxml 0.1.0 released

2018-02-11 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, February 11, 2018 10:11:05 Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > On Fri, 2018-02-09 at 13:47 -0800, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d- > > announce wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 02:15:33PM -0700, Jonathan M Davis via > > > > Digitalmars-d-a

dxml 0.2.0 released

2018-02-11 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
dxml 0.2.0 has now been released. I really wasn't planning on releasing anything this quickly after announcing dxml, but when I went to start working on DOM support, it turned out to be surprisingly quick and easy to implement. So, dxml now has basic DOM support. As part of that, it became clear

Re: dxml 0.2.0 released

2018-02-12 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, February 12, 2018 12:38:51 Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 05:36:51 UTC, Jonathan M Davis > > wrote: > > dxml 0.2.0 has now been released. > > > > I really wasn't planning on releasing anything this quickly > > after announcing dxml, but when I w

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