Re: New Article: My Experience Porting Python Dateutil's Date Parser to D

2016-03-19 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 at 21:55:23 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: The code and docs can be found here: https://github.com/JackStouffer/date-parser Quick update: all dateutil tests are now passing. It can how parse just about any date format you can throw at it :)

Re: New Article: My Experience Porting Python Dateutil's Date Parser to D

2016-03-11 Thread cym13 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 10 March 2016 at 21:25:16 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 at 22:12:42 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I haven't read the article yet, but you'll get more interest by putting a summary as the first comment on reddit. Thanks for the advice, I think it caused more peop

Re: New Article: My Experience Porting Python Dateutil's Date Parser to D

2016-03-10 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 at 22:12:42 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I haven't read the article yet, but you'll get more interest by putting a summary as the first comment on reddit. Thanks for the advice, I think it caused more people to read it. Also, I forgot to mention in the article that the

Re: New Article: My Experience Porting Python Dateutil's Date Parser to D

2016-03-10 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 10 March 2016 at 17:59:21 UTC, Chris Wright wrote: It's a little easier to write iterators in the Python style: you don't have to cache the current value, and you don't have to have a separate check for end-of-iteration. It's a little easier to use them in the D style: you get more

Re: New Article: My Experience Porting Python Dateutil's Date Parser to D

2016-03-10 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 08:22:58 +, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: > On Thursday, 10 March 2016 at 00:29:46 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: >>> It's a pretty straight forward standard iterator design and quite >>> different from the table pointers C++ uses. >> >> I explain my grievances in the article. > >

Re: New Article: My Experience Porting Python Dateutil's Date Parser to D

2016-03-10 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-announce
Just pointing out the obvious: For the simple iterators/generators that run on a non-changing source you can basically break it up into: 1. iterators without lookahead 2. iterators with lookahead Which is basically the same issues you deal with when implementing a lexer. Python-style itera

Re: New Article: My Experience Porting Python Dateutil's Date Parser to D

2016-03-10 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 10 March 2016 at 00:29:46 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: It's a pretty straight forward standard iterator design and quite different from the table pointers C++ uses. I explain my grievances in the article. They didn't make all that much sense to me, so I wondered what Theo's issues

Re: New Article: My Experience Porting Python Dateutil's Date Parser to D

2016-03-09 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 at 23:31:04 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 at 22:17:39 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: system for my personal projects), I can totally sympathize with the annoyances of using a dynamically-typed language, as well as dodgy iterator designs like __nex

Re: New Article: My Experience Porting Python Dateutil's Date Parser to D

2016-03-09 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 at 22:17:39 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: system for my personal projects), I can totally sympathize with the annoyances of using a dynamically-typed language, as well as dodgy iterator designs like __next__. (I've not had to deal with __next__ in Python so far, but *have* w

Re: New Article: My Experience Porting Python Dateutil's Date Parser to D

2016-03-09 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 02:12:42PM -0800, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On 3/9/2016 1:55 PM, Jack Stouffer wrote: > >Hello everyone, > > > >I have spent the last two weeks porting the date string parsing > >functionality from the popular Python library, dateutil, to D. I have >

Re: New Article: My Experience Porting Python Dateutil's Date Parser to D

2016-03-09 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/9/2016 1:55 PM, Jack Stouffer wrote: Hello everyone, I have spent the last two weeks porting the date string parsing functionality from the popular Python library, dateutil, to D. I have written about my experience here: http://jackstouffer.com/blog/porting_dateutil.html The code and docs

New Article: My Experience Porting Python Dateutil's Date Parser to D

2016-03-09 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hello everyone, I have spent the last two weeks porting the date string parsing functionality from the popular Python library, dateutil, to D. I have written about my experience here: http://jackstouffer.com/blog/porting_dateutil.html The code and docs can be found here: https://github.com/