Re: NaNs Just Don't Get No Respect

2012-08-20 Thread Caligo
Any chance that math.isNaN() will work at compile-time in the future? http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8562 I haven't had the chance to study the source since last night, but is it not possible to check to see if something is a nan without doing a cast? On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 7:03

Re: 2.060 on reddit

2012-08-03 Thread Caligo
When are allocators going to be ready? On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: ... with a few stats. Vote up! http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/xm5y0/d_260_released_d_programming_language/ Andrei

Re: Coming Soon: Stable D Releases!

2012-07-18 Thread Caligo
:18:55 Caligo wrote: What?! All he has to do is create a branch and call it stable, or whatever, and use cherry-pick to move small stables patches from other branches to the stable branch. What's so difficult about that? I don't get it. It takes up his time for him to do it, and I don't think

Re: Coming Soon: Stable D Releases!

2012-07-16 Thread Caligo
: On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:51:59 -0700, Caligo iteronve...@gmail.com wrote: Good thing that this is an experiment because creating a new organization just for something like this is a stupid idea. Is it so difficult to create branches and use the features that git provides?!? Walter was very uneasy

Re: dmd 1.074 and 2.059 release

2012-04-13 Thread Caligo
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: Another big pile of bug fixes. More contributors than ever! http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.074.zip http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html

Re: Video: Generic Programming Galore using D @ Strange Loop 2011

2012-04-11 Thread Caligo
Question on slide #6: Should work at efficiency comparable to hand-written code A version of min() that used 'ref' would probably be faster on large structs. Is that a problem? How do you make the decision to exclude 'ref'? Do [generic] algorithms always go with value semantics? On Wed, Apr

Re: GoingNative 6: The D Episode with Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu

2012-02-21 Thread Caligo
Thanks Walter. Thanks Andrei. You too, smiley face. On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/C9-GoingNative/GoingNative-6-The-D-Episode-with-Walter-Bright-and-Andrei-Alexandrescu

Re: GoingNative 6: The D Episode with Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu

2012-02-21 Thread Caligo
I thought GDC was going to be part of GCC 4.7, but Andrei in the video said 4.8. That's another year, :-( On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote:

Re: Server-Side magazine interview, touches on D

2012-01-29 Thread Caligo
2012/1/29 Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org: http://www.serversidemagazine.com/news/10-questions-with-facebook-research-engineer-andrei-alexandrescu/ Andrei Learn how to learn? Could you elaborate, please? How did you learn how to learn?

Re: Mozilla Rust 0.1

2012-01-24 Thread Caligo
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 2:45 PM, bearophile bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: Ary Manzana: And also, what's the advantage of the language? Its author is a very intelligent person, worth respect. Rust has both typestates and variable owning, and probably something else too, I have to study

Re: dmd 2.057 release

2012-01-02 Thread Caligo
Considering the rate at which bugs are being discovered and fixed, would it be possible to shorten the release cycle, say, every 2-3 weeks instead of 1-2 months?

Re: Concurrency and parallelism panel

2011-11-22 Thread Caligo
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: On 11/18/11 10:44 PM, Caligo wrote: Any new D talks that took place in the last year or so? I gave a couple of public and private talks (NWCPP/Silicon Valley, Riverbed Software) but they weren't

Re: [Phoronix] Merging In The GNU D Language Compiler To GCC

2011-10-04 Thread Caligo
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Jonathan M Davis jmdavisp...@gmx.comwrote: On Wednesday, October 05, 2011 03:50:35 Iain Buclaw wrote: My worst kept secret is out. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=OTk2NA *Sigh* They gave the link to the old site rather than the

Re: dmd 1.070 and 2.055 release

2011-09-07 Thread Caligo
SWEET! On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.comwrote: By far, the most number of bug fixes ever! http://www.digitalmars.com/d/**1.0/changelog.htmlhttp://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html

Re: TDPL is an Amazon Kindle bestseller

2011-06-21 Thread Caligo
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: On 6/21/2011 6:04 AM, Daniel Gibson wrote: Another thing is that I actually like having real books in my shelf, just like CDs and computer games (it already pisses me off that the they are usually distributed in

Re: Patterns of Human Error - my presentation at the DC ACM

2011-05-16 Thread Caligo
Have you ever placed a 9-volt battery on your tongue? It's not very pleasant, specially when someone asks you to do it and you don't know what's coming. On a serious note, the topic reminds me of an interesting book that I read; The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman, is one of the

Re: D Article Contest - win an iPad2

2011-04-07 Thread Caligo
In the rules there is no mention that the article should try to promote the D programming language rather than, say, criticize it because of its current state. One could write an article that portrays D negatively and receive majority of the votes. Would the author of that article still receive

Re: Release: GDC for Windows

2011-03-21 Thread Caligo
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Daniel Green ven...@gmail.com wrote: GDC D1 binaries are now available for Windows.  The binaries are packaged as an addon for TDM-GCC 4.5.1. D2 will follow in the next couple of days.  Both versions are being compiled to coexist.  So a single installation

Re: dmd 1.066 and 2.051 release

2010-12-24 Thread Caligo
Why are they calling it RedBlackTree? why not Set? C++ std::set is a red-black tree as far as I know, but they named it set. On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 1:25 AM, bearophile bearophileh...@lycos.comwrote: Andrei: Apologies for that. This is a major addition! Walter, I just updated the

Re: dmd 1.066 and 2.051 release

2010-12-24 Thread Caligo
So what does one use in D if something like std::unordered_set is needed? RedBlackTree is ordered as far as I can tell. On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Jonathan M Davis jmdavisp...@gmx.comwrote: On Friday 24 December 2010 00:02:06 Caligo wrote: Why are they calling it RedBlackTree? why