Re: DIP 1015--Deprecation of Implicit Conversion of Int. & Char. Literals to bool--Formal Assement

2018-11-14 Thread Carl Sturtivant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 12 November 2018 at 10:05:09 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: *sigh* Well, I guess that's the core issue right there. A lot of us would strongly disagree with the idea that bool is an integral type and consider code that treats it as such as inviting bugs. We _want_ bool to be

Re: Top Five World’s Most Underrated Programming Languages

2019-01-17 Thread Carl Sturtivant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 20:21:25 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Of possible interest: https://www.technotification.com/2019/01/most-underrated-programming-languages.html What's interesting here is the language nim, which perhaps has some lessons for D. https://nim-lang.org/

Re: GCC 10.1 Released

2020-05-15 Thread Carl Sturtivant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 16 May 2020 at 00:26:31 UTC, Carl Sturtivant wrote: On Thursday, 14 May 2020 at 16:57:20 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: [[GCC 11 Development]] Now the development cycle has started again, I have ambitions for a number disruptive changes to land during the next release cycle. Superb!

Re: GCC 10.1 Released

2020-05-15 Thread Carl Sturtivant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 14 May 2020 at 16:57:20 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: [[GCC 11 Development]] Now the development cycle has started again, I have ambitions for a number disruptive changes to land during the next release cycle. Superb! --- gdc is perhaps the most important strategically and I am so

Re: Reading IDX Files in D, an introduction to compile time programming

2020-08-23 Thread Carl Sturtivant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 22 August 2020 at 07:04:19 UTC, Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] wrote: I feel like limiting CTFE just gives a false sense of security and destroys many interesting use cases. If a part of my build system will do directory traversal to build the list of files to import, what difference

Re: Bison 3.8.1 released with D backend

2021-09-15 Thread Carl Sturtivant via Digitalmars-d-announce
Quote: *** A skeleton for the D programming language The "lalr1.d" skeleton is now officially part of Bison. It was originally contributed by Oliver Mangold, based on Paolo Bonzini's lalr1.java, and was improved by H. S. Teoh. Adela Vais then took over maintenance and invested a lot

Bison 3.8.1 released with D backend

2021-09-15 Thread Carl Sturtivant via Digitalmars-d-announce
The D back-end for deterministic parsers contributed by Adela Vais is now available with the release of Bison 3.8.1 ! https://github.com/adelavais See https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10047 for details.

Re: Bison 3.8.1 released with D backend

2021-09-15 Thread Carl Sturtivant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 15 September 2021 at 14:48:06 UTC, Tejas wrote: I'm sorry for being ignorant, but what does it mean to have a \ back-end in Bison? Does it mean that the parser program that `Bison` will output will be a `.d` file? Assuming I'm correct: What does it matter whether the parser