Re: ddox documentation generator

2012-10-07 Thread Chad J
On 10/07/2012 05:33 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Server overloaded? Trying to connect to 'vibed.org' just hangs (without actually timing out, at least not yet). Same for me.

Re: Bullet Physics in D

2012-08-22 Thread Chad J
On 08/22/2012 09:06 PM, BLM768 wrote: I've used Bullet in a professional capacity, and I'd hesitant to force the GC on your users. I'd port their allocators and supply implementations that map to malloc or the GC and let users that have their own heap implementations map them to those. There

Re: Antti-Ville Tuuainen Passes GSoC Final Evaluation

2012-08-22 Thread Chad J
On 08/22/2012 05:41 PM, dsimcha wrote: On Wednesday, 22 August 2012 at 20:04:12 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote: On Tuesday, 21 August 2012 at 13:15:49 UTC, dsimcha wrote: Congratulations, Antti-Ville! This project creates a better implementation of precise GC heap scanning than anything that's

Re: NaNs Just Don't Get No Respect

2012-08-21 Thread Chad J
On 08/20/2012 11:09 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 8/20/12, Walter Brightnewshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: On 8/19/2012 6:33 PM, Chad J wrote: How? I remember reading a lot of material on NaNs in D, but I don't recall these. Set the control word for the x87 to turn it on. Probably have

Re: NaNs Just Don't Get No Respect

2012-08-19 Thread Chad J
On 08/17/2012 08:03 PM, Walter Bright wrote: Our discussion on this in the last few days inspired me to write a blog post about it: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/yehz4/nans_just_dont_get_no_respect/ http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/nans-just-dont-get-no-respect/240005723 Walter, I

Re: NaNs Just Don't Get No Respect

2012-08-19 Thread Chad J
On 08/19/2012 06:16 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 8/19/2012 1:43 PM, Chad J wrote: So instead of writing float f; if (condition1) f = 7; ... code ... if (condition2) ++f; is there any way we can make it easier to write void someCode() { ... code ... } float f; if ( condition ) { f = 7

Re: D on AtCoder

2012-04-14 Thread Chad J
On 04/14/2012 06:22 AM, Masahiro Nakagawa wrote: This announcement is mainly for Japanese programmers. AtCoder is a new programming contest site in Japan. I and other D programmers begged AtCoder team to support D. In the result, AtCoder supports D (dmd 2.058) officially. Thanks to AtCoder

dmd.conf's -L--export-dynamic prevents my compiler from working

2011-12-18 Thread Chad J
Speaking of issues that will frustrate newcomers... having dmd generate executables that segfault would be particularly /bad/. I refer to my post 19 on this bug: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5278 (which is the most recent as of this writing.) Stock DMD hasn't worked on my system

Re: dmd.conf's -L--export-dynamic prevents my compiler from working

2011-12-18 Thread Chad J
On 12/18/2011 10:53 AM, Chad J wrote: Speaking of issues that will frustrate newcomers... having dmd generate executables that segfault would be particularly /bad/. I refer to my post 19 on this bug: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5278 (which is the most recent

Re: Next release name: Tango 0.99.99 Rei?

2010-02-13 Thread Chad J
downs wrote: On 10.02.2010 22:10, Richard Webb wrote: Nick Sabalausky Wrote: downs default_357-l...@yahoo.de wrote in message news:hkusr4$ho...@digitalmars.com... /obscure nerd culture joke Neon Genesis? Higurashi? Ayup ;) (Recently watched it. It rules. ) Also going to have to

Re: SciD: the humble beginning

2009-12-15 Thread Chad J
dsimcha wrote: == Quote from Chad J (chadj...@__spam.is.bad__gmail.com)'s article Is it really that hard to have the GUI libs in question just give you some pixels in memory or an opengl context? Then you could use your own highly optimized plot drawing routines instead of relying on the GUI

Re: Getting there update of Code Poet

2009-12-15 Thread Chad J
Jeremie Pelletier wrote: Nick Sabalausky wrote: Jeremie Pelletier jerem...@gmail.com wrote in message news:hfsmgo$9b...@digitalmars.com... I just posted a progress update on the Code Poet web page along with screen shots of the revamped GUI. Let me know what you think!

Re: SciD: the humble beginning

2009-12-14 Thread Chad J
dsimcha wrote: ... The other option is to make sure everything is loosely coupled to the GUI lib so it can be easily swapped for another one. The downside is that this has some tradeoffs in terms of simplicity and probably performance that I don't think I want to make and is probably a

Re: Size does matter: TDPL reaches the size of Modern C++ Design

2009-11-02 Thread Chad J
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Modern C++ Design has 323 pages including index. I'm glad to report that just about now TDPL has reached the same size. Let's hope the quality of TDPL is better! Follow TDPL progress in real-time at http://erdani.com. I wish I could mark this anniversary with

Re: another d demoscene entry

2009-10-11 Thread Chad J
*droo* Good trip man. Thanks for that. Neat to see D getting use in the demoscene.

Re: dmd 1.047 and 2.032 releases

2009-09-03 Thread Chad J
M-M-M-MONSTER KILL! The serious bug splatting action continues. Thank you Walter and contributors.

Re: dmd 1.046 and 2.031 releases

2009-07-06 Thread Chad J
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Ary Borenszweig wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Ary Borenszweig wrote: のしいか (noshiika) escribió: Thank you for the great work, Walter and all the other contributors. But I am a bit disappointed with the CaseRangeStatement syntax. Why is it case 0: .. case

Re: dmd 1.046 and 2.031 releases

2009-07-06 Thread Chad J
Walter Bright wrote: grauzone wrote: No. Also, this final switch feature seems to be only marginally useful, and normal switch statements do the same, just at runtime. So much for more pressing issues but it's his language and not mine so I'll shut up. The final switch deals with a problem

Re: dmd 1.046 and 2.031 releases

2009-07-06 Thread Chad J
Walter Bright wrote: Denis Koroskin wrote: I'd put an assert and mad a case explicit, if there is a size_t is so badly needed for ptr difference: assert(p1 = p2); size_t y = cast(size_t)p1 - p2; Aside from the typo in that code (!) the problem with casts is they are a sledgehammer

Re: dmd 1.046 and 2.031 releases

2009-07-06 Thread Chad J
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Chad J wrote: These bugs always take me no less than 2 hours to find, unless I am specifically looking for fall-through bugs. I agree. Probably a good option would be to keep on requiring break, but also requiring the user to explicitly specify they want

Re: dmd 1.046 and 2.031 releases

2009-07-06 Thread Chad J
Chad J wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Chad J wrote: These bugs always take me no less than 2 hours to find, unless I am specifically looking for fall-through bugs. I agree. Probably a good option would be to keep on requiring break, but also requiring the user to explicitly specify

Re: dmd 1.046 and 2.031 releases

2009-07-06 Thread Chad J
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [awesome stuff] Andrei

Re: Tango 0.99.8 Sean released

2009-03-28 Thread Chad J
Lars Ivar Igesund wrote: Dear D community -- Signed, The Tango Team (Also Jacob commented on the docs.) I'll give some critique on the new dil-generated docs as well. I'm looking at these two links: http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/docs/0.99.8/

Re: Tango 0.99.8 Sean released

2009-03-28 Thread Chad J
Lars Ivar Igesund wrote: Chad J wrote: I was a bit annoyed by the API/Modules modality in the latter docs. It'd be nice if the Modules list became collapsible and put the API elements as children of each module. It seems the newer(?) version of the docs is collapsible, but has yet

Re: dmd 1.041 and 2.026 releases

2009-03-05 Thread Chad J
Walter Bright wrote: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.041.zip http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.026.zip O.O Hell yeah!

Re: QtD 0.1 is out!

2009-02-21 Thread Chad J
What you and your crew are doing is really awesome! And you are beating all of the nasty linker errors and odd obstacles. Way to go. At some point in the future I will probably need to write cross-platform GUI apps in D, and I'll be looking to QT since it is good at this kind of work. So your

Re: New DigitalMars D newsgroups/forum

2008-12-16 Thread Chad J
BCS wrote: Reply to Denis, I have been working on new newsgroups archive last few days. This is an newsgroup posts archive structured in a way so that it feels more like a forum (that's what you demanded, right?). COOL I hit this page: http://dnews.naxx.ru/topic.php?id=117556 and it