1. You said CTFE engine can be ctfeable itself? But it uses
unions in BCValue - it's not going to work in CTFE, is it? Just
wondering myself what's the way to have polymorphism at compile
time.
2. The byte code generator interface has no mean to declare
functions? In case of LLVM jit one would
On Friday, 5 August 2016 at 01:28:39 UTC, Emre Temelkuran wrote:
It should definitely be the reference compiler. Why they're
wasting power with parallel compilers. :(
LLVM lags in windows support, and GDC can generate faster code
and supports more architectures.
On Wednesday, 27 July 2016 at 19:50:13 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
partially unbuttoned blouse
That's a faithful reference to the empty space in the middle of
D-Man :)
Aren't objects rarely passed by value? What's more interesting is
how return by value is supported as it happens often:
1. return by value from D callee
2. receive an object returned by value and assign to a new
variable
3. receive an object returned by value an assign it to an
existing variabl
On Friday, 17 June 2016 at 13:35:58 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
Without wanting to start a huge thing about this, see
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Licensing_and_Law/public-domain.html
and http://www.rosenlaw.com/lj16.htm and please at least add an
optional licencing under a traditional permissive open
On Friday, 17 June 2016 at 04:54:37 UTC, Jason White wrote:
Why the build script can't have a command line interface?
It could, but now the build script is a more complicated and
for little gain.
It's only as complicated to implement required features and not
more complicated. If the comman
On Thursday, 16 June 2016 at 13:40:39 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
The idea would be to build reggae with the system dmd first
(since having a D compiler is now a pre-requisite)
If a D compiler is required, it means a prebuilt executable is
not needed: rdmd should be enough to compile and run the b
On Sunday, 12 June 2016 at 23:27:07 UTC, Jason White wrote:
However, I question the utility of even doing this in the first
place. You miss out on the convenience of using the existing
command line interface.
Why the build script can't have a command line interface?
On Sunday, 12 June 2016 at 20:47:31 UTC, cym13 wrote:
Yeah, I have often thought that writing a self-contained D
program to build D would work well. The full power of the
language would be available, there'd be nothing new to learn,
and all you'd need is an existing D compiler (which we already
On Friday, 10 June 2016 at 17:45:54 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
On 06/08/2016 11:04 AM, Kagamin wrote:
BTW do people find nested comments particularly useful?
God yes. It's the *only* block comment I ever use. Non-nesting
comment blocks are a worthless PITA with no real benefit: You
can't co
On Wednesday, 8 June 2016 at 09:15:09 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
Two good properties about restricting to /+ +/ is that it's
still possible to put something else in front of it, and that
it stands out from the usual /* */ comments.
It stands out because we don't have a recognizable convention fo
On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 14:57:03 UTC, Bauss wrote:
Note: If you have a better suggestion, feel free to come with
one :)
I'd say do what razor does: raw output should require extra
syntax. Weren't templates created in order to not build html in
code?
The values are injected unescaped by default?
On Wednesday, 18 May 2016 at 20:10:09 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
So, while we do have enforcement of how ranges _can_ be used,
we don't have enforcement of how they _are_ used, and I don't
expect that we'll ever get that.
It would help if there was documented standard testing procedure
(and
On Wednesday, 18 May 2016 at 16:12:35 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
Thought you might find this interesting:
http://news.utexas.edu/2016/05/16/computer-science-advance-could-improve-cybersecurity
and reddit discussion:
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/4jvihm/computer_scientists_have_developed_a
On Sunday, 15 May 2016 at 13:25:42 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
So we do need a GC or RC for arrays, structs, classes (anything
heapish). Values for those could be allocated by a simple
bump/region allocator or a dedicated allocator that support
individual freeing (via RC or GC).
Wasn't it possib
On Thursday, 12 May 2016 at 22:01:04 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
Are there any bug reports for this, by the way? Thanks!
I believe, it was the atomicOp bug. You can see the link to
discussion there.
On Monday, 9 May 2016 at 00:44:09 UTC, Peter Häggman wrote:
I wouldn't be surpised to see in the implementation an array of
variant or something like that, explaining why it's limited to
octuples [1].
You can also use anonymous types: http://ideone.com/WBRunL they
are predated by tuples.
On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 14:33:22 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Added a comment:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4i3h77/some_new_c7_features/d2v5lu6
D has ref variables? Not for a long time though.
On Monday, 11 April 2016 at 11:43:20 UTC, wobbles wrote:
When updating with the .dev package on my Ubuntu 15.10 system
https://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.4114.1454138584.22025.digitalmars-d-annou...@puremagic.com
On Wednesday, 6 April 2016 at 18:18:10 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
It's all in the same module, I don't see how a protection
attribute can affect anything.
Compiler is probably confused by the absence of package to test
the package protection against. It probably shouldn't be an error.
On Wednesday, 6 April 2016 at 13:05:31 UTC, sigod wrote:
module test;
struct S {
package int field;
}
void main() {
S s;
s.field = 1; // Deprecation: test.S.field is not visible from
module test
}
You
Maybe rdmd should parse D_INCLUDE_PATH itself? Then it would work
on its own.
On Sunday, 20 March 2016 at 14:15:19 UTC, Manu wrote:
MSVC debuginfo is very good; it has data such that variables
follow their registers around in fully optimised builds, making
release build debugging fast and effortless.
That's backend feature, there are (usually) no registers on the
fronte
On Thursday, 10 March 2016 at 18:08:15 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote:
Why not just extend the HelloWorld class and override the
hello()? Imagine you write an apllication that should support
plugins. And two independent plugins extend the HelloWorld. One
plugin would conflict with the another. Event
On Sunday, 21 February 2016 at 23:30:14 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
I don't think that works for C++, and it's not complete.
At least it's intended to generate bindings, Calypso does very
different thing. So if one wants bindings generation, it would be
easier to implement missing functionality in
AFAIK 3.8 received some recent win64 codegen bugfixes.
Though fully automatic generation of bindings will be very
difficult because DMD uses semantics deviating from that of C++,
which will require some heuristic analysis.
On Sunday, 21 February 2016 at 17:21:51 UTC, Brad Roberts wrote:
Is there anything preventing Calypso from turning into a code
and interface generator? Making it an application that is part
of the build rather than a plug in to ldc would make it
available to both dmd and gdc users, no?
That'
On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 14:04:53 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
The article aims to explain how to use @safe
Um, no, the article doesn't explain how to use @safe, it shows
patterns that can be used to write safe code. The target audience
must already understand safety.
On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 23:24:57 UTC, Elie Morisse wrote:
Default constructors are invoked
Including class fields?
class A
{
QString s_myFilename;
this()
{
//is s_myFilename constructed already?
}
}
On Wednesday, 21 October 2015 at 23:40:15 UTC, Elie Morisse wrote:
On Linux Calypso should be in a state usable enough to start a
project assuming the lack of C++ exceptions or class
destruction isn't a blocker to start it (but I'm looking into
the latter right now), it has held up quite well w
On Tuesday, 13 October 2015 at 13:57:15 UTC, Meta wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 October 2015 at 13:18:36 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
Well, in order to pass the result of a function call to a
template parameter means that the function must be evaluated
at compile time, which is not always possible, so it probab
On Sunday, 11 October 2015 at 09:54:04 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
That would be me :) [1]. I think the biggest issue was that
something that worked before stopped working, because a field
was changed to a method and the method returned a function
pointer.
[1]
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/ka
On Saturday, 10 October 2015 at 02:57:03 UTC, Meta wrote:
I don't know how much metaprogramming-heavy generic code you've
written, but I can say from first-hand experience that there is
such a thing as Hell, and it is called Optional Parens.
Jokes aside, I've finally fixed (read: worked around
On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 12:19:21 UTC, ponce wrote:
I also like how readable your blog is.
Mm? http://abload.de/img/tmpviqau.png
On Tuesday, 22 September 2015 at 16:24:33 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
On Tuesday, 22 September 2015 at 15:53:22 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
Of course you didn't. In C you can mutate const object without
cast. But it's not an issue because it's not what is usually
done and usually const works as exp
On Tuesday, 22 September 2015 at 15:33:40 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
On Tuesday, 22 September 2015 at 15:11:55 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
Another C feature you didn't know about: the standard allows
to create a mutable pointer to const data and mutate it.
I didn't? Of course I did. In C++ other
On Tuesday, 22 September 2015 at 14:53:54 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
The consequences of a C function mutating something reachable
through const is either a disaster or the D compiler will have
to forget about those kind of optimizations after calling a C
function. But then const has very
On Tuesday, 22 September 2015 at 11:04:17 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
Can pragma(mangle, ...) be used on types? Then we can define a
C/C++ compatible `HeadConst` template that simulates C/C++
const semantics, while still being mangled correctly
I believe I've seen const declarations in C incorrect
Ruby link points to reggae-python.
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 02:17:25 UTC, rcorre wrote:
@nogc void donFancyHat(Enumap!(Attribute, int) map) {
map.charisma += 1; }
BTW, what this means? Isn't Enumap a value type?
On Thursday, 30 July 2015 at 18:54:03 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
That was fast. Thanks!
README in github repo still has some outdated links to dsource.
Also bugzilla address is https://issues.dlang.org/
On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 15:45:19 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist
wrote:
I guess what I mean to say is that they did it, maybe it can be
done.
Of course it can be done with an additional license agreement
with microsoft.
Of course VS Shell is still way more than is necessary for our
purposes.
On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 01:55:35 UTC, Joseph Cassman wrote:
There is probably an obvious reason this is not possible but I
could not see it when reading through the MS licensing
information. It seems to me the linker bin could be
redistributed.
9. SCOPE OF LICENSE. The software is licen
On Monday, 20 July 2015 at 17:26:31 UTC, Matt Kline wrote:
http://bitbashing.io/be-lazy-use-ranges.html
You assign off_t to size_t, won't compile on 32-bit system.
You're safe to use simple `long` for file sizes and offsets.
On Saturday, 20 June 2015 at 17:53:43 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
http://abload.de/img/tmp67se8.png
Previously looked like this: http://abload.de/img/tmpkbqjv.png
http://abload.de/img/tmp67se8.png
On Saturday, 20 June 2015 at 16:26:53 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
On Saturday, 20 June 2015 at 15:59:07 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
Cool. Something changed? Layout is much better now.
Not sure what you mean.
The left panel and pads disappeared.
Cool. Something changed? Layout is much better now.
BTW unsent drafts stack up.
http://abload.de/img/tmphersb.png
Maybe show full thread titles? They are weird when abbreviated.
On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 08:00:12 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
But... if we're to think of replacing the current Makefiles for
dmd, druntime and phobos, and if the build descriptions that
are to replace them are to be truly cross-platform, then a
binary backend is needed and a stripped down version
On Sunday, 7 June 2015 at 07:00:18 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
I'm currently considering (because of dmd, druntime and phobos)
how to strip it down to its bare essentials and have a core set
of source files that only knows how to build D code, i.e. no
C/C++, no dub, no make/ninja.
Why strip?
The interface can follow that of vibe:
--- build.d ---
import std.experimental.build;
Build myBuild(){ ... }
mixin BuildMain!(myBuild);
---
Then
$ rdmd build.d
- compile and run the script, which builds the project by default
$ rdmd build.d -ninja
- the script run with -ninja switch only gene
On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 14:16:13 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
Yes, we could do that, with the downside of implementing our
own Markdown variant with its own instruction manual.
Every site in the internet supports its own way to markup, some
accept html, some - bbcode, some - markdown, so m
On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 14:16:13 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
What about supporting only a few features like hyperlinks and
code blocks? These should be unambiguous and not conflict with
anything.
Yes, we could do that, with the downside of implementing our
own Markdown variant with its o
On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 12:57:23 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
5. You can't edit posts once sent. This means that if you
accidentally messed up the formatting (e.g. you pasted code
without padding it with whitespace or surrounding it in
```...``` blocks), you can't go back and edit it now.
On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 12:57:23 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
1. People receiving messages through NNTP/mailing lists will
not see the formatted Markdown. Although Markdown's goal is to
be readable in its plain text source code, it still allows many
situations in which the source is mislead
On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 09:53:34 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Remember that the forum software is just a frontend for an nntp
server and
that others view the content via nntp or via the mailing list.
So, it
doesn't make any sense to support features that involve
anything other than
plain tex
Space left for text reduced: http://abload.de/img/tmpkbqjv.png
https://github.com/Kapeli/Dash-User-Contributions/tree/master/docsets/D
?
Or a long review for more content.
On Wednesday, 20 May 2015 at 00:20:46 UTC, Elie Morisse wrote:
On Monday, 18 May 2015 at 12:27:35 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
BTW how does it rely on having everything on the D side? Maybe
it's enough to have just instance size and method symbols?
I'm not sure what you mean.
I mean a workaround for
On Thursday, 14 May 2015 at 15:19:59 UTC, Elie Morisse wrote:
- Many simple non-POD C++ classes are being mapped to D classes
instead of structs, for example QFlags
(qt5demo.d uses its alias Qt::Alignment) which is a wrapper
around a single int but contains an overloaded assignment
operator so
On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 15:54:47 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
Are there are performance pitfalls to watch out for that are
unique to the way calypso interfaces between D and C++? E.g.
sneaky copies, implicit callbacks to keep things synced etc.
As I understand, the major remaining issue is val
On Saturday, 9 May 2015 at 02:58:58 UTC, Mike wrote:
Question: You are using a modified version of LDC, but is that
compiler required to consume link to a library created with
that custom compiler? What I mean is: Can you use this
modified version of LDC to create a library, and then use a
On Thursday, 23 April 2015 at 08:04:46 UTC, Kelly wrote:
I haven't tried Qt yet because it needs to be hand-compiled
with a user supplied namespace
Aren't there precompiled versions?
On Saturday, 25 April 2015 at 03:36:24 UTC, Rikki Cattermole
wrote:
[0] http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/
Git got a proper visualization of commit tree? :)
On Friday, 24 April 2015 at 21:45:08 UTC, Stewart Gordon wrote:
?? I've had a quick look, and can't at the moment see what in
that thread relates to using SVN.
It discusses acceptability of any alternative to git workflow,
patches in that case.
On Tuesday, 21 April 2015 at 21:31:39 UTC, Stewart Gordon wrote:
How does using SVN lead to "fragmentation"? I don't understand.
See
http://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.3160.1418550079.9932.digitalmar...@puremagic.com
On Tuesday, 21 April 2015 at 15:21:20 UTC, Elie Morisse wrote:
So Calypso still can't load the MSVC C++ standard lib. I
thought Kelly managed to build some STL examples but actually
it's not remotely possible yet. The main blocker is that
template instances often depend on each other (but not i
On Tuesday, 7 April 2015 at 08:28:08 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
And I have never been speaking about "normal WPO", only about
one specific to D semantics.
AFAIK, hypothetical D-specific optimizations were never
implemented (like elision of pure calls and optimization of
immutable data). But they wor
On Monday, 6 April 2015 at 21:40:28 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
So if some configuration is "portable" and you want to create
something
really fine grained you could offer that directory as an
alternative "roaming config dir" (returning null or
"~/.config" on Linux).
Though it's unusual for an ave
On Sunday, 5 April 2015 at 12:22:15 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
Unless LDC does some D specific WPO magic I am not aware of
this is not what your original statement was about.
llvm does normal WPO in a sense that compiled code is not opaque.
Erm. Either it is coding style issue or a language issue. Pi
On Sunday, 5 April 2015 at 09:08:14 UTC, FreeSlave wrote:
And github repo https://github.com/MyLittleRobo/standardpaths
If I understand meaning of PublicShare correctly, it's
CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA on Windows.
On Saturday, 4 April 2015 at 19:59:46 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
We need solutions that can be reasonably implemented with
existing resources, not perfect solutions. Storing IR in object
files and using custom linker is "correct" approach for WPO but
it is currently unaffordable.
Works for me with l
On Saturday, 4 April 2015 at 07:44:12 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
I'm of the opposite opinion. I don't care if full builds take
1h as long as incremental builds are as fast as possible. Why
would I keep doing full builds? That's like git cloning
multiple times. What for?
Full build is important w
On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 17:55:00 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
Complicates whole-program optimization possibilities. Old
school object files are simply not good enough to preserve
information necessary to produce optimized builds and we are
not in position to create own metadata + linker combo to
cir
On Thursday, 26 March 2015 at 10:17:42 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 22:30:15 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
Downplaying other languages makes the D crowd look desperate...
Heh, there were whole sites like phpain (can't find it now) and
something similar for C++.
Actua
On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 22:30:15 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
Downplaying other languages makes the D crowd look desperate...
Heh, there were whole sites like phpain (can't find it now) and
something similar for C++.
On Monday, 9 March 2015 at 18:48:53 UTC, captaindet wrote:
after original & package installation & setup & whatnot, will i
end up with a dedicated gtk3 folder
msys provides pacman and gtk3 package to fetch (and build?).
On Friday, 6 March 2015 at 20:22:42 UTC, Ben Boeckel wrote:
You're making assumptions about the features of your users'
editors. These features are not trivial to implement
Implementation of three different word wrapping algorithms in
Scintilla took 52 lines of code. For comparison: a rudiment
In fact, I failed to find good monospace font for source code, it
used to be Courier New 9pt, but it works well only on displays no
bigger than 1024*768.
On Friday, 6 March 2015 at 20:22:42 UTC, Ben Boeckel wrote:
And I find that monospace fonts tend to make it much easier to
tell the
difference between 'l', '1', and 'I'. Not so important in
English, but
it can be all the difference in code.
http://abload.de/img/tmpr3uv6.png I see no less diff
On Tuesday, 24 February 2015 at 08:39:39 UTC, Kelly wrote:
due to class value support being incomplete
What about using that trick: recognize C++ classes and represent
them internally as structs with altered mangling - at least it
frees you from messing with D classes.
Or even more obvious (VBA,TSQL):
set (x,y,z) = [1,2,3];
On Thursday, 19 February 2015 at 10:52:40 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Thursday, 19 February 2015 at 09:50:25 UTC, bearophile wrote:
I prefer "let", it's much more traditional and descriptive.
C++ standard library is often a bad example to follow...
Doesn't "let" normally declare a new variable?
h
On Thursday, 19 February 2015 at 09:50:25 UTC, bearophile wrote:
I prefer "let", it's much more traditional and descriptive. C++
standard library is often a bad example to follow...
Doesn't "let" normally declare a new variable?
Well, Word can diff and merge documents, though, it works with
sharepoint, not vcs.
On Sunday, 15 February 2015 at 04:38:08 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh
wrote:
Just my personal opinion as one who recently finished a 200 page
thesis in Latex, and is now working for a company where we do
all
our internal documents in Word. Latex certainly has its ugly
warts,
but it is so nice for leng
On Tuesday, 17 February 2015 at 02:16:58 UTC, Kelly wrote:
P.S. I HATE THIS FORUM EDITORplease add a preview button,
whoever takes care of this!?!? I take notes in a different
editor and then paste here and it looks fine, only to end up
mangled when actually submitted...ugh :)
You me
http://forum.dlang.org/post/mbqt88$a6n$1...@digitalmars.com looks
like C++ class support is shifting to value types.
On Monday, 9 February 2015 at 04:33:04 UTC, Kelly wrote:
Ugh, this forum needs a preview button!!
Sorry about the poor formatting,
Kelly
http://pastebin.com/
Or it can switch depending on preprocessor definitions:
---
class WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE wxString
#ifdef wxNEEDS_WXSTRING_PRINTF_MIXIN
: public wxStringPrintfMixin
#endif
{
---
On Monday, 22 December 2014 at 23:14:44 UTC, Elie Morisse wrote:
• Structs
https://github.com/Syniurge/Calypso/blob/master/tests/calypso/showcase.d
testClass cls = new testInherit;
This should be written
testClass* cls = new testInherit;
In C++ struct and class differ only in symbol mangl
On Tuesday, 23 December 2014 at 07:18:01 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
Project itself is very cool but I am in doubts about
possibility of merging this upstream. Doing so would make full
D implementation effectively impossible without some C++
compiler already available as a library on same platform -
q
On Friday, 19 December 2014 at 17:21:43 UTC, ketmar via
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
have, as i still got the closed proprietary system. what google
really
has with their "open-sourceness" is a bunch of people that
works as
additional coders and testers for free.
Well, those people want to d
On Friday, 19 December 2014 at 08:11:42 UTC, Ronald Adonyo wrote:
Done, does anyone have a good idea of how to write Async/Await
using fibers or state machines in D ?
Same as in .net, look at the generated IL, an async method should
return a chain of tasks.
On Thursday, 4 December 2014 at 02:29:39 UTC, Faux Amis wrote:
This has to be a joke!
I couldn't answer a single question:
What is the name of the D language syntax feature illustrated
in the following fragment of D code?
string a = x"5095 f9 95d723c2";
Seems like hex to me
What is the nam
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 00:56:12 UTC, Brad Anderson
wrote:
Maybe make the ones on d.learn extremely simple.
---
What does the follow program print?
void main()
{
import std.stdio : writeln;
writeln("foo");
}
---
No algorithms, no math. Just extremely basic
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