Re: This Week in D, issue 1

2015-01-13 Thread Michal Minich via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 at 14:08:58 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I've started writing a weekly D newsletter. Here's the first issue, any feedback welcome! http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jan-12.html This is great! I was really hoping for this weekly or by-weekly summary of D ecosystem.

Re: This Week in D, issue 1

2015-01-13 Thread Michal Minich via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 at 14:28:56 UTC, aldanor wrote: Great stuff :) Are you planning to make the content open-source so others could suggest edits more easily? Will there be an archive? use D wiki for it?

Re: Chuck Allison's talk is up

2014-06-06 Thread Michal Minich via Digitalmars-d-announce
You can download trough this page http://offliberty.com/ without any additional plugins. Just pate the ustream url.

Re: Start of dmd 2.064 beta program

2013-10-13 Thread Michal Minich
On Saturday, 12 October 2013 at 22:16:13 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd2beta.zip I found 2 issues: 1) Compile time almost doubled. Tested on vibe.d 28 seconds - dmd 2.063 + updated snn.lib 52 seconds - dmd 2.064 beta 2) Regression - After building vibe.d as a

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

2013-07-02 Thread Michal Minich
On Tuesday, 2 July 2013 at 13:07:40 UTC, Regan Heath wrote: It is done for performance reasons. On UNIX the compiler will put the literal abc into read only memory. It could/should do the same on windows but doesn't yet (I believe). So, the compiler is treating them as such, by giving them

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

2013-07-02 Thread Michal Minich
On Tuesday, 2 July 2013 at 13:39:36 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Tuesday, 2 July 2013 at 13:33:10 UTC, Michal Minich wrote: Ok I understand. What I did as a first thing when I get error on char[] x = a was char x = cast(char[])a, Which was obviously incorrect - as the a was/should be placed in rom

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

2013-05-09 Thread Michal Minich
On Thursday, 9 May 2013 at 05:15:46 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On Thu, 09 May 2013 02:07:12 +0200 Rob T al...@ucora.com wrote: It would be even better if the torrent contained the original video. Is it available for download somewhere? No, not unless Andrei puts it somewhere. I'm still

C++11 - using const and mutable for thread safety [Video]

2013-01-03 Thread Michal Minich
Newly discovered changes in C++11 on using const and mutable for thread safety http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/C-and-Beyond-2012-Herb-Sutter-You-dont-know-blank-and-blank

Another go at the Next Big Language

2012-09-03 Thread Michal Minich
http://dave.cheney.net/2012/09/03/another-go-at-the-next-big-language Hacker news discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4468731 Reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/z9ltl/another_go_at_the_next_big_language/

Re: Visitor pattern revisited in D

2012-08-27 Thread Michal Minich
On Monday, 27 August 2012 at 15:00:11 UTC, deadalnix wrote: the fastCast could probably be faster this way (I didn't checked / compiled) private U fastCast (U) (object t) { return cast(U)(cast(void*)t); } one less de/reference. btw, in your implementation should be (is(T == class) ||

Re: Visitor pattern revisited in D

2012-08-27 Thread Michal Minich
On Monday, 27 August 2012 at 15:00:11 UTC, deadalnix wrote: /!\ Shameless autopromotion incoming /!\ I have recently put some effort into exploring alternatives to visitor pattern and see what can be done in D. I ended up with a solution which is a real improvement compared to plein old

Re: Visitor pattern revisited in D

2012-08-27 Thread Michal Minich
On Monday, 27 August 2012 at 16:28:24 UTC, deadalnix wrote: Le 27/08/2012 18:02, Michal Minich a écrit : On Monday, 27 August 2012 at 15:00:11 UTC, deadalnix wrote: /!\ Shameless autopromotion incoming /!\ I have recently put some effort into exploring alternatives to visitor pattern and see

Article: D-style Mixins in C#

2012-08-24 Thread Michal Minich
http://blogs.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2012/08/resharper-sdk-adventures-part-5-%E2%80%94-d-style-mixins-in-c/

Re: Visual D 0.3.29 features C++ to D conversion wizard

2011-12-03 Thread Michal Minich
On 3. 12. 2011 16:02, Mirko Pilger wrote: i neither see the menu entry nor the command assignment, too. i'm using the vs shell 2008. I don't see it either after upgrading from previous version in vs shell 2010

Re: Visual D 0.3.28 released: debugger improvements and inline help

2011-10-26 Thread Michal Minich
V Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:52:39 +0200, Rainer Schuetze wrote: Hi, Visual D is a Visual Studio package providing both project management and language services for the D programming language. It works with Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010 as well as the free Visual Studio Shells. This

Re: std.database a design suggestion

2011-10-10 Thread Michal Minich
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:02:13 +0200, bls wrote: Hi, what do you people think about using the GoF Factory (design) pattern ? F.I. for one, in this case, better to use interface only, and connect method can return instance of Database class, saving one factory and one method. interface

Re: Visual D 0.3.20 released

2011-01-03 Thread Michal Minich
V Mon, 03 Jan 2011 23:06:35 +0900, Tyro[a.c.edwards] wrote: I have visual C++ 2010 Express installed but am not able to register the Visual D to use it. Am I missing something or do I need to launch Visual D separate from Visual C++? VS Express does not support plugins. VS Shell and full VS

Re: totally OT: Re: TDPL in Russian

2010-11-13 Thread Michal Minich
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:00:28 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote: And one little thing: the Czech Republic is part of the Central Europe. Saying it belongs to the Eastern Europe is a reliable way to upset the Czechs, for rather complex historical reasons. Any idea about what Slovakia counts as?

Re: dmd 1.063 and 2.048 release

2010-08-16 Thread Michal Minich
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:58:22 -0700, Walter Bright wrote: Michal Minich wrote: On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:34:20 -0400, Sean Kelly wrote: Michal Minich Wrote: On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:29:40 +, Michal Minich wrote: Module constructor is not called when it is placed in imported module

Re: dmd 1.063 and 2.048 release

2010-08-16 Thread Michal Minich
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:21:32 -0400, bearophile wrote: Michal Minich: the changeset only contains change to rt_term function - added call to _moduleTlsDtor another bug? or miss to check-in some files? You may copy this (plus what you thinks is missing) inside the bug report. Bye

Re: dmd 1.063 and 2.048 release

2010-08-11 Thread Michal Minich
Module constructor is not called when it is placed in imported module, and WinMain is used. module hello; import core.runtime; import std.c.windows.windows; import std.stdio; import a; extern (Windows) int WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine,

Re: dmd 1.063 and 2.048 release

2010-08-11 Thread Michal Minich
Module constructor is not called when it is placed in imported module, and WinMain is used. module hello; import core.runtime; import std.c.windows.windows; import std.stdio; import a; extern (Windows) int WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine,

Re: dmd 1.063 and 2.048 release

2010-08-11 Thread Michal Minich
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:29:40 +, Michal Minich wrote: Module constructor is not called when it is placed in imported module, and WinMain is used. Are there some changes to runtime initialization, or it is a bug? (in that case I will submit it).

Re: dmd 1.063 and 2.048 release

2010-08-11 Thread Michal Minich
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:34:20 -0400, Sean Kelly wrote: Michal Minich Wrote: On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:29:40 +, Michal Minich wrote: Module constructor is not called when it is placed in imported module, and WinMain is used. Are there some changes to runtime initialization

Re: dflplot 0.01

2010-07-10 Thread Michal Minich
On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 04:40:04 +, dsimcha wrote: 2. There is currently no proper way to save a plot. This is because DFL's Bitmap object doesn't provide a way to obtain the underlying pixels yet, and core.stdc.windows doesn't seem to provide the necessary stuff to do it manually via the

Re: dmd 1.057 and 2.041 release

2010-03-09 Thread Michal Minich
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:23:07 -0500, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I want to focus more on the fact that you are declaring the data after the slice as being no longer used. kind of assumeUnique ... assumeNoArrayReference ?

Re: dpldocs.info - easy redirect to phobos docs

2010-02-21 Thread Michal Minich
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:15:35 -0500, Adam Ruppe wrote: Future directions for it would be to make it a smart searcher http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/?hoogle=Int+-+String This is quite advanced doc search for Haskell. In the example link I search for function that convert int to string, but

Re: SciD: the humble beginning

2009-12-15 Thread Michal Minich
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 lib to do this. I figured this kind of thing would be unbeatable for performance,