Re: Documentation for any* dub package, any version

2018-03-01 Thread Jonas Drewsen via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 26 February 2018 at 14:59:07 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Many of you will already know this from the other thread or from my twitter, but I just added a on-demand downloader to my dpldocs.info domain to fetch and build docs for any* dub Would be cool if you could add support for

Re: An optional/maybe type with range semantics

2018-03-01 Thread aliak via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 10:55:38 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 2/28/18 12:54 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 2/25/18 8:03 PM, aliak wrote: Did you take a look at https://dlang.org/library/std/range/only.html? -- Andrei Ah, sorry I missed that you mentioned it. -- Andrei

Re: State of D 2018 Survey

2018-03-01 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, 2018-02-28 at 13:41 +, Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > About a month ago, Sebastian Wilzbach sent an email out to a few > of the core D folks asking for feedback on a survey he had put > together. He thought it would be useful for the Foundation to use > in order to

Re: State of D 2018 Survey

2018-03-01 Thread bauss via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 20:37:36 UTC, Seb wrote: On Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 20:24:00 UTC, JN wrote: On Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 20:01:16 UTC, Seb wrote: Thanks! I hope so too! Is there some way to access the results without retaking the survey? Yeah the link

Re: State of D 2018 Survey

2018-03-01 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
Just don't overlook the fact that people who fill out 30 minute surveys right away after being told about them are a self-selected group of people who apparently have way too much time on their hands. Which also suggests they would likely also have more free time to go chase down and fix breaks in

Re: State of D 2018 Survey

2018-03-01 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 1 March 2018 at 21:24:29 UTC, Bill Baxter wrote: Just don't overlook the fact that people who fill out 30 minute surveys right away after being told about them are a self-selected group of people who apparently have way too much time on their hands. Which also suggests they would

Re: State of D 2018 Survey

2018-03-01 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, March 01, 2018 13:24:29 Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > Just don't overlook the fact that people who fill out 30 minute surveys > right away after being told about them are a self-selected group of people > who apparently have way too much time on their hands. > Which

Re: State of D 2018 Survey

2018-03-01 Thread Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-announce
Ok, I have same feeling, but after trying to fill this survey with one of my colleague, I have find out that it takes "only" 15 minutes to complete. But still I thing almost everyone from our field is OK with filling surveys anyway. On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 10:24 PM, Bill Baxter via

Re: State of D 2018 Survey

2018-03-01 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 1 March 2018 at 21:49:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: That being said, I think that it's a given that we need to make breaking changes at least occasionally. The question is more how big they can be and how we go about it. Some changes would clearly be far too large to be worth

Re: State of D 2018 Survey

2018-03-01 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 12:39:08AM +, psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: [...] > On the otherhand, I wish programming languages would just stop > changing so often. [...] Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine. :-P The day a language stops changing is the day it

Re: Documentation for any* dub package, any version

2018-03-01 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 1 March 2018 at 11:00:15 UTC, Jonas Drewsen wrote: Would be cool if you could add support for creating docs from any dub project stored on github and not only the ones on code.dlang.org. That might be possible too. BTW I just put the server code up on github

Re: State of D 2018 Survey

2018-03-01 Thread barry.harris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 2 March 2018 at 02:34:23 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: On Friday, 2 March 2018 at 02:02:42 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: btw. I never said 'stop changing', I said "I wish programming languages would just stop changing so often." I'd also argue, that languages that are relatively

Re: State of D 2018 Survey

2018-03-01 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 2 March 2018 at 02:35:46 UTC, Meta wrote: D1 -> D2 nearly killed D (can't remember which, but it was either Walter or Andrei that have said this on multiple occasions). A D2 -> D3 transition might generate a lot of publicity if done very carefully, but more than likely it would

Re: State of D 2018 Survey

2018-03-01 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 2 March 2018 at 01:19:53 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Because it has not stopped changing. To wit: K C (1978) C89 / C90 / ANSI C (1989-1990) The 1995 amendment to ANSI C (1995) C99 (1999) (Embedded C (2008)) C11 (2011) T btw. I never

Re: State of D 2018 Survey

2018-03-01 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 2 March 2018 at 02:02:42 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: btw. I never said 'stop changing', I said "I wish programming languages would just stop changing so often." I'd also argue, that languages that are relatively stable, are far 'safer' than languages that constantly change.

Re: State of D 2018 Survey

2018-03-01 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 2 March 2018 at 00:53:02 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 12:39:08AM +, psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: [...] On the otherhand, I wish programming languages would just stop changing so often. [...] Change is inevitable, except from a vending

Re: State of D 2018 Survey

2018-03-01 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 12:57:22AM +, psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Friday, 2 March 2018 at 00:53:02 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 12:39:08AM +, psychoticRabbit via > > Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: [...] > > > On the otherhand, I wish

Re: State of D 2018 Survey

2018-03-01 Thread Meta via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 2 March 2018 at 00:39:08 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: On Thursday, 1 March 2018 at 21:49:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: That being said, I think that it's a given that we need to make breaking changes at least occasionally. The question is more how big they can be and how we go

Re: State of D 2018 Survey

2018-03-01 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 2 March 2018 at 02:35:46 UTC, Meta wrote: D1 -> D2 nearly killed D (can't remember which, but it was either Walter or Andrei that have said this on multiple occasions). This gets repeated over and over again, but I haven't actually seen any evidence for it. But even if it is

Re: Documentation for any* dub package, any version

2018-03-01 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
If you guys have bug reports or feature requests, you can put it on the github too if you like: https://github.com/adamdruppe/dpldocs/issues

Re: State of D 2018 Survey

2018-03-01 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 2 March 2018 at 03:57:25 UTC, barry.harris wrote: Sorry little rabbit, your are misguided in this belief. Back in day we all used C and this is the reason most "safer" languages exist today. You can write pretty safe code in C these days, without too much trouble. We have the