Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-23 Thread Regan Heath via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 15:27:50 +0100, Leandro Lucarella wrote: Regan Heath, el 22 de October a las 10:41 me escribiste: >NO, this is completely false, and why I think you are not entirely >familiar with env vars in posix. LD_PRELOAD and LD_LIBRARY_PATH affects >ALL, EACH and EVERY program for

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-22 Thread Regan Heath via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 23:52:22 +0100, Leandro Lucarella wrote: The runtime is not platform independent AT ALL. ^ implementation Why should you provide a platform agnostic way to configure it? Because it makes life easier for developers and cross platform development, not to m

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-21 Thread Regan Heath via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 18:19:33 +0100, Sean Kelly wrote: On Monday, 20 October 2014 at 10:39:28 UTC, Regan Heath wrote: Sure, but past/current env vars being used are used *privately* to a single program. What you're suggesting here are env vars which will affect *all* D programs that see

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-20 Thread Regan Heath via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 17:54:55 +0100, Leandro Lucarella wrote: Regan Heath, el 17 de October a las 15:43 me escribiste: I think you've mistook my tone. I am not "religious" about this. I just think it's a bad idea for a program to alter behaviour based on a largely invisible thing (environment

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-17 Thread Regan Heath via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 11:18:27 +0100, Leandro Lucarella wrote: Regan Heath, el 17 de October a las 10:55 me escribiste: >Regan Heath, el 14 de October a las 11:11 me escribiste: >>>I still don't understand why wouldn't we use environment variables for >>>what they've been created for, it's

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-17 Thread Regan Heath via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 00:01:39 +0100, Leandro Lucarella wrote: Regan Heath, el 14 de October a las 11:11 me escribiste: >I still don't understand why wouldn't we use environment variables for >what they've been created for, it's foolish :-) As mentioned this is not a very windows friendly/lik

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-16 Thread Regan Heath via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 09:10:38 +0100, Dylan Knutson wrote: Wouldn't it be more generally useful to have another function like main() called init() which if present (optional) is called before/during initialisation. It would be passed the command line arguments. Then a program can cho

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-14 Thread Regan Heath via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 01:45:48 +0100, Leandro Lucarella wrote: Walter Bright, el 9 de October a las 17:28 me escribiste: On 10/9/2014 7:25 AM, Dicebot wrote: >At the same time I don't see what real benefit such runtime options brings to >the table. This is why in my PR garbage collector is

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

2014-05-30 Thread Regan Heath via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, 29 May 2014 20:40:10 +0100, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/29/2014 11:25 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: Agreed. The simple dream of automatically decoding UTF and staying "Unicode correct" is a failure. Yes. Attempting to hide the fact that strings are UTF-8 is just doomed. It's like t

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

2014-05-30 Thread Regan Heath via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, 27 May 2014 22:40:00 +0100, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/27/2014 2:22 PM, w0rp wrote: I'm actually a native speaker of 25 years and I didn't get it at first. Natural language communicates ideas approximately. What bugs me is when people say: I could care less. I've always ass