Re: [OT] My C++ talk at GoingNative 2013

2013-09-12 Thread Sean Kelly
On Sep 12, 2013, at 2:46 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote: > > Not sure how long ago that was, but dconf everyone agreed to disagree and > left it at "we're not changing it". Here's a portion of the discussion where Walter seemed to change his mind: http://forum.dlang.org/thread/yzsqwejxqlnzryhrk...@foru

Re: [OT] My C++ talk at GoingNative 2013

2013-09-12 Thread Sean Kelly
On Sep 12, 2013, at 2:46 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote: > > On Sep 12, 2013 9:16 PM, "Joseph Rushton Wakeling" > wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, 10 September 2013 at 13:08:29 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: > >> > >> All class methods are virtual by default in D, unless declared 'final'. > > > > > > There was an i

Re: I'm porting some go code to D

2013-09-20 Thread Sean Kelly
On Aug 24, 2013, at 1:59 AM, David wrote: > Daemonic Threads often end with a segfault, so if your main thread > exists, the other threads will probably segfault. By default, sure. But with daemon threads you really want to have some kind of shutdown mechanism inside a static dtor somewhere.

Re: DConf 2013 Day 3 Talk 3: D-Specific Design Patterns by David Simcha

2013-10-20 Thread Sean Kelly
On Friday, 14 June 2013 at 09:15:10 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Please vote and discuss on the social channels. Awesome. This was one of my favorite talks.

Re: D 2.0 Stacktrace

2010-10-08 Thread Sean Kelly
Denis Koroskin Wrote: > > I modified druntime to support stack-tracing for all kind of exceptions. > It's very simple: > > 1) In object_.d, change traceContext() function linkage to C: > extern(C) Throwable.TraceInfo traceContext(void* ptr = null) { ... } > > 2) In rt\deh.c, declare > Interfac

Re: Utah Valley University teaches D (using TDPL)

2010-11-16 Thread Sean Kelly
bearophile Wrote: > > He also gives a quite useful unittest that the student implementation must > pass, this is a good usage of unittests. The unit test ends like this: > > ... > writeln("unit test passed"); > } > > Indeed, a person needs feedback that the unittests have run (and have > s

Re: Utah Valley University teaches D (using TDPL)

2010-11-21 Thread Sean Kelly
Fawzi Mohamed wrote: > On 18-nov-10, at 09:11, Don wrote: > >> Jonathan M Davis wrote: >>> On Tuesday, November 16, 2010 13:33:54 bearophile wrote: Jonathan M Davis: > Most of the rest (if not all of it) could indeed be done in a > > > > > library. I am not sure it could be do

Re: [OT] Re: Short forum post on REST API

2011-04-07 Thread Sean Kelly
From talking to our web programmers, each browser still has anomalies that must be worked around. IE is no exception. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 2, 2011, at 3:30 PM, Daniel Gibson wrote: > Am 03.04.2011 00:22, schrieb Adam D. Ruppe: >> Nick Sabalausky: >>> Heh, yup. Because after all, VRML ju

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-12 Thread Sean Kelly
On Apr 9, 2011, at 7:37 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > On 04/09/2011 09:27 PM, dsimcha wrote: >> On 4/9/2011 10:22 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >>> On 04/09/2011 08:31 PM, dsimcha wrote: On 4/9/2011 7:56 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > I think the article's title is missing a comma b

Re: D Database Connectivity

2011-05-23 Thread Sean Kelly
On May 22, 2011, at 11:49 PM, Mandeep Singh Brar wrote: > I have tried to port the jdbc drivers of postgres and sqlite along > with libodbcxx to D2/phobos. The library ddbc, having an API similar > to JDBC has been uploaded to dsource.org/projects/ddbc. Though > everything from JDBC (blobs etc) ma

Re: short thoughts on D (like my twitter)

2011-06-11 Thread Sean Kelly
Tumblr? It doesn't have the length limitation. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 10, 2011, at 10:12 AM, "Adam D. Ruppe" wrote: > http://arsdnet.net/web.d/short-thoughts.html > > I sometimes find little things I want to comment on, but it isn't > enough to make it's own page. > > So I've decided to

Re: short thoughts on D (like my twitter)

2011-06-11 Thread Sean Kelly
How about drdobbs.com? Short-form entries are common there. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 11, 2011, at 4:33 AM, "Nick Sabalausky" wrote: > "Adam D. Ruppe" wrote in message > news:isu59p$6sd$1...@digitalmars.com... >> Nick Sabalausky wrote: >>> But I do have something that just happens to arguab

Re: Programming Windows D Examples are now Online!

2011-07-09 Thread Sean Kelly
The docs on the Boost license say as much as well, and derive from legal consult. I must say that after reading this I felt a lot better about the headers I've implemented. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 9, 2011, at 1:56 AM, Mike Parker wrote: > On 7/9/2011 5:43 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: >

Re: Orange 1.0.0 beta - serialization library

2011-08-29 Thread Sean Kelly
On Aug 20, 2011, at 9:16 AM, dsimcha wrote: > This looks really great! I'll try it out sometime later. A few questions: > > 1. What other archiver formats besides XML might be useful? (I remember > binary can't work because of the way keys work, though messagepack is > probably a better opt

Re: AI Challenge - Ants

2011-10-29 Thread Sean Kelly
If you want to cheat, there have been books published on ant colony optimization. I'm sure the related papers could be dug up. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 29, 2011, at 3:12 AM, Max Wolter wrote: > On 10/25/2011 1:44 PM, Trass3r wrote: >>> I'm working on a bot in D. I'm currently done implemen

Re: D2 port of Tango

2011-11-03 Thread Sean Kelly
On Nov 3, 2011, at 9:06 AM, Timon Gehr wrote: > On 11/03/2011 02:55 PM, Trass3r wrote: >> >> >>> Yes, Tango for D2 should make use of druntime and deimos. >> Deimos?? Isn't that dead? > > Probably he meant this: > https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/deimos > > What other project were you

Re: dmd 2.057 release

2011-12-14 Thread Sean Kelly
Ideally, every nontrivial change should have a bugzilla entry, even if that means its created by whoever made the change. It's too easy to miss things otherwise. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 14, 2011, at 3:11 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: > On 2011-12-14 11:10, Walter Bright wrote: >> On 12/14/201

Re: dmd 2.057 release

2011-12-15 Thread Sean Kelly
Sounds offset-dependent. I bet if you added and removed instructions in the right place you could reduce it a lot further. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 15, 2011, at 3:02 AM, Adrian wrote: > Am 14.12.2011 18:57, schrieb Walter Bright: >> On 12/14/2011 6:59 AM, Adrian wrote: >>> I have a strange

Re: Modern COM Programming in D

2012-01-26 Thread Sean Kelly
Very nice! One tiny thing I noticed so far--the last 2 comments on page 8 are backwards. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 24, 2012, at 9:07 AM, Lionello Lunesu wrote: > Little over a year ago I held a tech talk at Microsoft about how I used D to > write readable COM code. A while back I thought I

Re: D forums now live!

2012-02-15 Thread Sean Kelly
On Feb 14, 2012, at 2:00 PM, Walter Bright wrote: > http://forum.dlang.org/ > > This should replace the old miserable web interface to the forums. > > Thanks to Vladimir Panteleev for an awesome job writing this! Nice work! The only thing I see as an immediate barrier for my regular use is th

Re: Enhanced D syntax highlighting for Sublime Text 2

2012-03-13 Thread Sean Kelly
On Mar 13, 2012, at 6:54 AM, Peter Alexander wrote: > On Wednesday, 7 March 2012 at 18:59:36 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: >> https://github.com/alexrp/st2-d >> >> I plan to have it merged into ST2 proper if I can somehow get in touch with >> the dev(s)... > > Great! I've been using ST2 recen

Re: video games (was Re: UFCS for D)

2012-03-31 Thread Sean Kelly
Don't have the HD set stretch the image. Just watch it in the original format. Personally, I just find that looking at an LCD display is easier on the eyes than a CRT. Being able to mount it on the wall to get it away from the kids is nice too. On Mar 31, 2012, at 2:37 AM, "Nick Sabalausky" w

Re: video games (was Re: UFCS for D)

2012-03-31 Thread Sean Kelly
Some of the fancier TVs operate at 120Hz and generate interpolated frames to fill the gaps. It tends to cause all sorts of problems and look terrible. Generally renders console games unplayable too, as it creates all sorts of input lag. On Mar 31, 2012, at 6:40 AM, "Adam D. Ruppe" wrote: > O

Re: video games (was Re: UFCS for D)

2012-04-01 Thread Sean Kelly
On Mar 31, 2012, at 1:57 PM, "Nick Sabalausky" wrote: > > Don't know about satellite, but Cable turned to crap about a couple years > ago. It used to be very good, but then they started compressing the fuck out > of everything, and honest to god, half the time it looks like a fucking > MPEG**1

Re: Introducing vibe.d!

2012-04-27 Thread Sean Kelly
In _d_throw call abort(). That'll give you a core file. On Apr 26, 2012, at 11:13 PM, Sönke Ludwig wrote: > Am 27.04.2012 04:19, schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu: >> On 4/26/12 3:30 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote: >>> On Thursday, 26 April 2012 at 22:05:29 UTC, Robert Clipsham wrote: On 26/04/2012 2

Re: Introducing vibe.d!

2012-04-27 Thread Sean Kelly
On Apr 27, 2012, at 1:27 AM, Sönke Ludwig wrote: > > We still have a more comprehensive benchmark on the table but it seemed to > get along happily with about 60MB of RAM usage during a C10k test. The > average request time went down to about 6s if I remember correctly. The test > was using a

Re: Introducing vibe.d!

2012-04-30 Thread Sean Kelly
On Apr 30, 2012, at 1:03 AM, Sönke Ludwig wrote: > Am 27.04.2012 16:50, schrieb Sean Kelly: >> In _d_throw call abort(). That'll give you a core file. >> > > Thanks, I've tracked it down to an assertion by logging stderr for now, but > next time I will try

Re: Introducing vibe.d!

2012-04-30 Thread Sean Kelly
On Apr 30, 2012, at 8:26 AM, Sönke Ludwig wrote: > Am 30.04.2012 15:48, schrieb Sean Kelly: >> On Apr 30, 2012, at 1:03 AM, Sönke Ludwig wrote: >> >>> Am 27.04.2012 16:50, schrieb Sean Kelly: >>>> In _d_throw call abort(). That'll give you a core fil

Re: Combine Coroutines and Input Ranges for Dead-Simple D Iteration

2012-05-01 Thread Sean Kelly
On May 1, 2012, at 1:50 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "jerro" wrote in message > news:sxfngaqnhwxqookrv...@forum.dlang.org... >> On Tuesday, 1 May 2012 at 08:26:45 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >>> A little write-up I just did on something I thought was pretty cool: >>> >>> Combine Coroutines and

Re: Voldemort Types in D

2012-05-09 Thread Sean Kelly
On May 9, 2012, at 8:43 AM, deadalnix wrote: > > Great reading BTW, and I love how ti is named. I'd prefer Lovecraftian types :-) Good article though.

Re: Voldemort Types in D

2012-05-09 Thread Sean Kelly
On May 9, 2012, at 7:30 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/telhj/voldemort_types_in_d/ One thing: "and then use g. I know what you're thinking — use typeof and declare another instance of RandomNumberGenerator: auto g = generator(4); typeof(g) h

Re: D Conference 2012 - Sep 26-29 at the Banker's Suite and Ballroom in Astoria, Oregon

2012-05-25 Thread Sean Kelly
On May 25, 2012, at 6:50 AM, Russel Winder wrote: > On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 15:12 +0200, simendsjo wrote: > >> And I really doubt anyone but programmers know rfcs exist. > > But of course all the RFCs relate to an era of 9.6kbs lines and UUCP. In > this WWW era everyone assumes sending huge HTML

Re: OSX and 64-bit [Re: First working Win64 program!]

2012-08-13 Thread Sean Kelly
On Aug 13, 2012, at 12:04 AM, Russel Winder wrote: > On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 23:29 -0700, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > […] >> OSX has a lot less backwards compatibility to worry about. > > Not entirely true. > > > Apple's strategy appears to be that computers are non-upgradable, > non-repairable, d

Re: GC vs. Manual Memory Management Real World Comparison

2012-09-05 Thread Sean Kelly
On Sep 5, 2012, at 8:08 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote: > > Array literals are not so easy to fix. I once thought that it would > be optimal to make it a stack initialisation given that all values are > known at compile time, this infact caused many strange SEGV's in quite > a few of my programs (most a

Re: GC vs. Manual Memory Management Real World Comparison

2012-09-06 Thread Sean Kelly
On Sep 6, 2012, at 10:50 AM, Benjamin Thaut wrote: > Am 06.09.2012 15:30, schrieb ponce: >>> The problem with intstrumentation is, that I can not recompile >>> druntime for the MinGW GDC, as this is not possible with the binary >>> release of MinGW GDC and I did not go thorugh the effort to setup

Re: GC vs. Manual Memory Management Real World Comparison

2012-09-07 Thread Sean Kelly
On Sep 6, 2012, at 10:57 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: > On 2012-09-07 01:53, Sean Kelly wrote: > >> What version flags are set by GDC vs. DMD in your target apps? The way >> "stop the world" is done on Linux vs. Windows is different, for example. > > H

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-08 Thread Sean Kelly
On Feb 7, 2013, at 12:16 PM, Walter Bright wrote: > No, I can't say who it is at this time. Sorry. But it is a huge opportunity > for us. > > To get the design win, we need to: > > (a) get dynamic linking and loading to work Which platform? Loading a single dynamic D library or multiple libr

Re: DConf Reception sponsored by the HipHop team at Facebook

2013-04-26 Thread Sean Kelly
On Apr 24, 2013, at 8:21 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: > On Friday, 1 March 2013 at 11:12:02 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> (details to follow) > > So, are there any details? Like, e.g. is there a dress code? :) I believe you're expected to wear clothes.

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

2013-05-09 Thread Sean Kelly
On Thursday, 9 May 2013 at 16:35:09 UTC, Rob T wrote: I absolutely cannot use any other browser because of this addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ There are at least two tree-style tab addons for Chrome. I haven't looked for the feature in any other browser

Re: DMD 1.036 and 2.020 releases

2008-10-20 Thread Sean Kelly
Bill Baxter wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:59 AM, dsimcha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Seriously, though, Walter, thank you very much for this release. You have done a tremendous job bringing us a better language. Merging the Phobos and Tango runtime is a monumental task (Sean, thank you, t

Re: DMD 1.036 and 2.020 releases

2008-10-21 Thread Sean Kelly
Don wrote: We also now have two modules called 'bitmanip', which is somewhat ironic since we brainstormed for ages trying to come up with a better name for it. Modules with duplicate names have caused linking problems in the past -- not sure if that applies here. It applies if the modules f

Re: DMD 1.036 and 2.020 releases

2008-10-21 Thread Sean Kelly
Sergey Gromov wrote: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:40:28 -0700, Sean Kelly wrote: Don wrote: We also now have two modules called 'bitmanip', which is somewhat ironic since we brainstormed for ages trying to come up with a better name for it. Modules with duplicate names have caused linking p

Re: DMD 1.036 and 2.020 releases

2008-10-21 Thread Sean Kelly
Bill Baxter wrote: I also like the idea of renaming the whole project from druntime to dcore. Just sounds cooler. :-) Yeah it does :-) Sean

Re: DMD 1.036 and 2.020 releases

2008-10-22 Thread Sean Kelly
Don wrote: 'std', 'stdc' and 'sys' sound OK to me. Although is there any reason why stdc couldn't be part of 'sys'? IMHO: 'common' sounds far too generic. 'core' is borderline. My current thought is to have: core/ stdc/ sys/posix sys/windows (yes, I'm planning to move posix sup

Re: DMD 1.036 and 2.020 releases

2008-10-22 Thread Sean Kelly
Jason House wrote: Sean Kelly Wrote: Don wrote: 'std', 'stdc' and 'sys' sound OK to me. Although is there any reason why stdc couldn't be part of 'sys'? IMHO: 'common' sounds far too generic. 'core' is borderline. My curr

Re: DMD 1.037 and 2.020 releases

2008-11-25 Thread Sean Kelly
== Quote from Robert Fraser ([EMAIL PROTECTED])'s article > Walter Bright wrote: > > > > http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html > > http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.037.zip > > > > http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html > > http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.021.zip > > > 929 & 2326

Re: DMD 1.037 and 2.020 releases

2008-11-25 Thread Sean Kelly
== Quote from bearophile ([EMAIL PROTECTED])'s article > 1.037 compiles my dlibs fine :-) And with no other increase of exe size. > Thank you for fixing 929, ASAP I'll remove about 100-150 lines of code from > my dlibs :-) > Also thank you for 1797, a little problem, but nice to have it fixed. > I

Re: DMD 1.038 and 2.022 releases

2008-12-20 Thread Sean Kelly
bearophile wrote: Walter Bright: Excess isn't the problem, I want to see if import cycles is. Generally all the modules in my dlibs import each other. This is nearly unavoidable, if a module contains string functions, and another one contains math stuff, the string module will want to use so

Re: DMD-MAC!!

2009-01-29 Thread Sean Kelly
Jacob Carlborg wrote: Michel Fortin wrote: On 2009-01-28 13:02:22 -0500, BCS said: http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1015&Itemid= Interesting. From the last comment from Walter at the bottom: But the Mach-O has no such special sections. I think I've fo

Re: Just one more thing...

2009-02-15 Thread Sean Kelly
x27;t working on OSX, neither are sockets and memory mapped files (for unknown reasons). Thanks to Sean Kelly for a lot of help on the runtime library with this. For those how don't know what thread local storage is used for, is this both D1 and D2 and what features can I expect not worki

Re: Just one more thing...

2009-02-16 Thread Sean Kelly
Walter Bright wrote: Anders F Björklund wrote: Walter Bright wrote: No luck, same problem. Might want to add "requires Mac OS X 10.5" or something for now ? Upgraded wxD CVS to support DMD on Mac too. Yeah, that looks like the best strategy for the moment. It seems odd that there is such co

Re: Just one more thing...

2009-02-23 Thread Sean Kelly
Anders F Björklund wrote: Anders Bergh wrote: If you upload some 10.4 binaries I can try it on my machine. Already done. Just redownload it. Just downloaded it and I can confirm that it does run on 10.4: $ ./dmd Digital Mars D Compiler v1.040 Copyright (c) 1999-2009 by Digital Mars written

Re: Just one more thing...

2009-02-23 Thread Sean Kelly
== Quote from Anders F Björklund (a...@algonet.se)'s article > Sean Kelly wrote: > >> Apparently it's still using some Leopard symbols for pthread. > >> > >> Could also be that dmd is now alright, but libphobos.a isn't. > >> But as

Re: Just one more thing...

2009-02-27 Thread Sean Kelly
Fawzi Mohamed wrote: On 2009-02-27 09:38:02 +0100, Walter Bright said: Anders F Björklund wrote: Walter Bright wrote: Can you upgrade to 10.5 ? It's only a few months left to "Snow Leopard", then we can play the same game all over again. Yeah, but 10.5 has working posix threads. It's d

Re: Just one more thing...

2009-02-27 Thread Sean Kelly
Anders F Björklund wrote: Walter Bright wrote: Can you upgrade to 10.5 ? It's only a few months left to "Snow Leopard", then we can play the same game all over again. And at that point Apple will drop support for 10.4.

Re: Just one more thing...

2009-02-28 Thread Sean Kelly
Nick Sabalausky wrote: "Walter Bright" wrote in message news:go88pa$1gu...@digitalmars.com... Anders F Björklund wrote: Walter Bright wrote: Can you upgrade to 10.5 ? It's only a few months left to "Snow Leopard", then we can play the same game all over again. Yeah, but 10.5 has working pos

Re: Just one more thing...

2009-02-28 Thread Sean Kelly
Brad Roberts wrote: Michel Fortin wrote: On 2009-02-27 16:37:13 -0500, Jacob Carlborg said: Nick Sabalausky wrote: Ordinarily, I detest the idea of pulling support for anything as recent as just a few years old. But Apple themselves has a habit of ignoring users of anything except the latest

Re: Just one more thing...

2009-03-01 Thread Sean Kelly
Daniel Keep wrote: Sean Kelly wrote: One somewhat weird issue that we may have to face at some point is that Posix functions whose behavior was changed have had the symbol for the new function changed to _blah$UNIX2003, with the old function left in place. Since D can't declare symbols

Re: Open source dmd on Reddit!

2009-03-05 Thread Sean Kelly
hasen wrote: Walter Bright wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/82ck4/digitalmars_d_now_open_source/ http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/82cgp/new_release_of_the_d_programming_language_now/ Wow there's a big fuss over there about it not being /really/ open source,

Re: Open source dmd on Reddit!

2009-03-05 Thread Sean Kelly
Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote: On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Sean Kelly wrote: hasen wrote: Walter Bright wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/82ck4/digitalmars_d_now_open_source/ http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/82cgp

Re: Open source dmd on Reddit!

2009-03-05 Thread Sean Kelly
Georg Wrede wrote: Sean Kelly wrote: The big deal with the full source for DMD being available is that if DigitalMars disappears in a puff of smoke tomorrow, customers have a means of preserving their investment in the language. I just hope Walter survives! Well yeah. But that's the

Re: dmd 1.041 and 2.026 releases

2009-03-06 Thread Sean Kelly
wade wrote: I don't see this in the change logs but does this version fix the MacOS seek problem (issue 2689)? It should be fixed in the next release as an artifact of some other changes that are being made.

Re: Open source dmd on Reddit!

2009-03-06 Thread Sean Kelly
Walter Bright wrote: Sean Kelly wrote: Seems kind of silly to me. The big deal with the full source for DMD being available is that if DigitalMars disappears in a puff of smoke tomorrow, customers have a means of preserving their investment in the language. This can be a big deal for

Re: Open source dmd on Reddit!

2009-03-13 Thread Sean Kelly
Nick Sabalausky wrote: "Walter Bright" wrote in message news:gpbpib$2ee...@digitalmars.com... Ary Borenszweig wrote: What do you mean with pseudo-phonetic? How do you pronounce the first letter of "I"? And the first letter of "Incredible"? That doesn't seem to have any logic! :-P Yea, that

Re: dmd 2.029 release

2009-04-22 Thread Sean Kelly
Georg Wrede wrote: Actually, the one interesting question might be, would rewriting this code in a structured fashion (I mean, removing the gotos) make it slower? (Not that I'd be suggesting Walter should do it. Just an academic question.) Yes. For better or worse, goto is sometimes the be

Re: dmd 2.029 release

2009-04-27 Thread Sean Kelly
Stewart Gordon wrote: Walter Bright wrote: Stewart Gordon wrote: Walter, how often do you update your working copy from the SVN? Obviously less than once every 2 releases. As far as I know, it is current. Everything got checked in. So how has the fix for http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_b

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

2009-05-04 Thread Sean Kelly
== Quote from Georg Wrede (georg.wr...@iki.fi)'s article > > The "presentation software format" is more restrictive than we usually > think. Everything has to be crunched to ridiculous screenfuls, mostly > containing a couple of bullet items. And if you want the audience to > follow the presentatio

Re: Slide design

2009-05-04 Thread Sean Kelly
== Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org)'s article > > I don't agree. I think there is much more at work here. Slides are > limited in size and text content simply because there is so much > information a person can absorb simultaneously by hearing and seeing. So > the slid

Re: dmd 1.041 and 2.026 releases

2009-05-04 Thread Sean Kelly
== Quote from Walter Bright (newshou...@digitalmars.com)'s article > dsimcha wrote: > > == Quote from Ellery Newcomer (ellery-newco...@utulsa.edu)'s article > >> Walter Bright wrote: > >>> davesun wrote: > when can I use dmd on 64bit linux ? > >>> > >>> You can now - 32 bit executables work fi

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

2009-05-04 Thread Sean Kelly
Georg Wrede wrote: That's certainly true with non-techie audiences. I wish we had had speaking classes when I went to school. The first time I gave a lecture at the university, my hands trembled visibly on the OH. I'm fine if I can just sit down and talk, but if I have to stand in front of

Re: Slide design

2009-05-05 Thread Sean Kelly
== Quote from Daniel de Kok (m...@danieldk.org)'s article > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Daniel Keep > wrote: > > The subjects I did the best in and learned the most at uni were the ones > > where I didn't *have* to take notes and could concentrate on what the > > lecturer was trying to teach

Re: Slide design

2009-05-05 Thread Sean Kelly
== Quote from BCS (a...@pathlink.com)'s article > Reply to Walter, > > Sean Kelly wrote: > > > >> Some professors seem to think that lecturing about material that > >> isn't presented anywhere else will force students to attend class. > >> But

Re: D Meeting at Kahili's in Kirkland Saturday at 11

2009-05-14 Thread Sean Kelly
Robert Fraser wrote: Walter Bright wrote: For those in town. http://www.yelp.com/biz/kahili-coffee-kirkland Bring swords, shields, flame-throwers and Nomex. I think you're taking this whole "live action role-playing" thing too far. Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt!

Re: ldc 0.9.1 released

2009-05-29 Thread Sean Kelly
Kagamin wrote: I found recently that properly designed C++ code can live happily without all that esoteric macro/template crap and can be pretty readable and understandable even using nasty antipatterns. This being achieved simply by using C++ subset that is supported on various platforms. Co

Re: MySQLD

2009-06-12 Thread Sean Kelly
Walter Bright wrote: If it's just a list of declarations, though, I don't believe it is copyrightable, as long as you rewrite them and don't just copy/paste it. I think it depends. Here's a clause from the Boost license page: "Does the copyright and license cover interfaces too? The concept

Re: dmd 1.052 for Mac OSX 10.6

2009-11-12 Thread Sean Kelly
Walter Bright Wrote: > > BTW, the 10.6 upgrade for the Apple C compiler, etc., seems to have > broken support for 10.4. The 10.4 libraries aren't installed by default, even if you install the developer package. No idea if that would fix things though. And Apple doesn't support 10.4 anyway.

Re: D in the ix magazine about "programming today"

2009-12-30 Thread Sean Kelly
dsimcha Wrote: > > Yes, but you were probably exceptionally talented and/or motivated. From > experiences I have had getting friends through programming 101, I believe > that, > when people teach programming, they tend to take for granted some very basic > concepts such as variable assignment, f

Re: D in the ix magazine about "programming today"

2009-12-30 Thread Sean Kelly
Sean Kelly Wrote: > If the problem is simply one of explaining typed variables to someone with a > maths background, that's somewhat of a different problem. Err... I meant "rebindable variables," thought I've never actually met a maths person who had trouble grasping

Re: Tango 0.99.9 Kai released

2010-02-14 Thread Sean Kelly
Nick Sabalausky Wrote: > "strtr" wrote in message > news:hkuc5h$2hj...@digitalmars.com... > > Nick Sabalausky Wrote: > >> > >> If you grab the Tango+DMD bundle from the Tango site, then it's exactly > >> the > >> same as installing DMD/Phobos: Just unzip, set path, and run. > > > > So I shouldn

Re: I made std.time for Phobos, please review my code.

2010-04-28 Thread Sean Kelly
Steven Schveighoffer Wrote: > > Two other benefits to using 100NS increments: Windows FILETIME structures > use that same resolution, and Tango uses that same resolution. So we have > easy compatibility throughout many systems, while at the same time > capturing a wide enough range to last

Re: Can we all please stop overreacting?

2010-05-03 Thread Sean Kelly
metric seems to be universally acknowledged > > > > - > >>> after all, druntime itself is a fork of tango core. > >>> "We think you suck, so we'll base our new standard library on your > > > > work. >>> " > >>> You see

Re: dmd 1.061 and 2.046 release

2010-05-15 Thread Sean Kelly
bearophile wrote: > Walter Bright: > > I know the hardcoding is probably not the best, but I wanted to try > > it out to > > see if it was a good feature before committing a lot of work to it. > > In general I approve the idea of doing similar experiments. Often you > have enough information to

Re: dcollections 1.0 and 2.0a beta released

2010-05-21 Thread Sean Kelly
Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > > I don't know Tango, but Java's containers are a terrible example to > follow. Java's container library is a ill-advised design on top of an > underpowered language, patched later with some half-understood seeming > of genericity. I think Java containers are a huge

Re: dcollections 1.0 and 2.0a beta released

2010-05-22 Thread Sean Kelly
Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > > One thing before I forget: I think any good collection abstraction must > be concretized back to the classic collection instances. Singly-linked > lists definitely can't be left off the list! It would be an epic > failure. Imagine the papers! New York Times: "D has

Re: dmd 1.062 and 2.047 release

2010-06-14 Thread Sean Kelly
torhu Wrote: > I tried the example on page 406-407 of the book (copying stdin to stdout > using message passing). I don't mean to be a killjoy, but it doesn't > compile. :( > > I'm using the latest pdf version of the book, and dmd 2.047. > > > I get this: > > --- > d:\prog\dmd\bin\..\src\ph

Re: D web site facelift

2010-07-03 Thread Sean Kelly
Looks great in Safari. I'm not sure what people mean about small fonts, unless you've already fixed it. The font size is slightly larger than average on my laptop, which I actually like. My only suggestion is that you might want to play with the brightness of the text in the sidebar. The con

Re: D talk at Google

2010-07-22 Thread Sean Kelly
Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > Benjamin Shropshire from Google was kind enough to extend me an > invitation on behalf of his employer to give a talk on D on Friday, July > 30, 11:00 am in or around Building 43. I'm not sure whether the talk > will be taped but they asked me to sign a video releas

Re: New debugger coming soon!

2010-08-10 Thread Sean Kelly
Aldo Nunez Wrote: > I'll be posting the D debugger I've been working on at dsource this week. > It'll > be a set of debugging libraries that you can build your own debugger with, > along > with a Debug Engine plug-in for Visual Studio. > > I'll post another announcement as soon as it's availabl

Re: dmd 1.063 and 2.048 release

2010-08-11 Thread Sean Kelly
Lars T. Kyllingstad Wrote: > On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:15:07 -0700, Walter Bright wrote: > > > http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html > > http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.048.zip > > > Has std.concurrency been brought in line with TDPL for this release? If > so, that should be clearly s

Re: dmd 1.063 and 2.048 release

2010-08-11 Thread Sean Kelly
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, or it is a bug? (in > that case I will submit it). There w

Re: dmd 1.063 and 2.048 release

2010-08-17 Thread Sean Kelly
Michal Minich wrote: > 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

Re: D Concurrent GC

2010-09-14 Thread Sean Kelly
Leandro Lucarella Wrote: > Not quite ready for prime-time yet, but I think it's in a stage when it > could be interesting anyway (at least for developers or people that want > to experiment): > http://llucax.com.ar/blog/blog/post/-1a4bdfba Nice work! I've gotten this to compile as the GC for dru

Re: D Concurrent GC

2010-09-15 Thread Sean Kelly
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote: > On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:09:18 -0400, Sean Kelly > wrote: > >> Leandro Lucarella Wrote: >> >>> Not quite ready for prime-time yet, but I think it's in a stage when > > > it >>> could be interesting a

Re: D Concurrent GC

2010-09-15 Thread Sean Kelly
Steven Schveighoffer Wrote: > On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:26:35 -0400, Sean Kelly > wrote: > > > > > I could simply change it to a function that accepts a scope delegate. It > > just isn't as efficient as the alias approach. But an indirect call is > > pretty

Re: D Concurrent GC

2010-09-15 Thread Sean Kelly
Sean Kelly Wrote: > Leandro Lucarella Wrote: > > > Not quite ready for prime-time yet, but I think it's in a stage when it > > could be interesting anyway (at least for developers or people that want > > to experiment): > > http://llucax.com.ar/blog/blog/p

Re: D Concurrent GC

2010-09-15 Thread Sean Kelly
Lutger Wrote: > Sean Kelly wrote: > > > Sean Kelly Wrote: > > > >> Leandro Lucarella Wrote: > >> > >> > Not quite ready for prime-time yet, but I think it's in a stage when it > >> > could be interesting anyway (at least for

Re: D Concurrent GC

2010-09-16 Thread Sean Kelly
Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > > There's a discussion on digitalmars.D about a D program being slower > than the equivalent Python script because of the GC. Would be a good > test bed! I was playing with that yesterday, but there was too much setup required for a quick test (it compared an MD5 h

Re: D Concurrent GC

2010-09-16 Thread Sean Kelly
dsimcha Wrote: > == Quote from Sean Kelly (s...@invisibleduck.org)'s article > > > Dunno. For now, I've just sent my modified copy to Leandro and the druntime > list for people to play with. It seems quite promising though. > > Been meaning to ask, what does th

Re: core.stdcpp

2014-08-29 Thread Sean Kelly via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 27 August 2014 at 04:23:28 UTC, Mike wrote: On Wednesday, 27 August 2014 at 00:32:20 UTC, Mike wrote: I'm asking this community to consider setting a new precedent for druntime: reduce the scope to just the language implementation, encapsulate and isolate the platform specific

Re: core.stdcpp

2014-08-29 Thread Sean Kelly via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 27 August 2014 at 09:43:03 UTC, Mike wrote: On Wednesday, 27 August 2014 at 06:50:19 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: The irony is D1 has std.c, and for D2 it was migrated to core.stdc. ...and design takes the backseat to convenience. This was a necessary part of the separation of t

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