Re: Boston D Meetup: Strawman Structs
On 7/25/17 5:50 AM, John Colvin wrote: On Sunday, 2 July 2017 at 10:35:49 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I'll have a short presentation on a weird trick I discovered while writing some MySQL serialization code. Hope you can attend! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/d-lang-presentation-strawman-structs-tickets-35120523431 -Steve Is there a written summary of the idea? Or is there a specific point in the video someone could point me to? What I can definitely say is it's a very interesting technique worth slogging through probably poor audio etc. It's really a concept language without a language. Very inspiring work. -- Andrei
Re: Boston D Meetup: Strawman Structs
On 7/25/17 6:15 AM, Nicholas Wilson wrote: On Tuesday, 25 July 2017 at 09:50:46 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Sunday, 2 July 2017 at 10:35:49 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I'll have a short presentation on a weird trick I discovered while writing some MySQL serialization code. Hope you can attend! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/d-lang-presentation-strawman-structs-tickets-35120523431 Is there a written summary of the idea? Or is there a specific point in the video someone could point me to? Basically using structs to describe layouts (among other relations) and in turn use that to drive DbI automated code. The DbI is the only "code" the rest is declarative using the type system. Steven was using it to describe what columns ( name and type) a query should return from a DB and the using DbI to generate the Query. Not exactly :) I wrote a database serializer that uses introspecting members, types, and attributes of a struct to correctly populate members of the struct with data from the rows. So yes, I'm using introspection, but only for the serialization, the query is hand-written. In some cases (particularly when you are joining 2 tables that have conflicting columns), I needed to change how the serialization worked (e.g. the column names had to change). In order to do this, I created descriptors that are built from the combination of attributes and other introspected items. Then my thought was I would pass in the descriptors directly in order to control how serialization works. I found it unwieldy and difficult to write the low-level descriptors by hand. But I thought of making a dummy or strawman struct with all the attributes the way I wanted, and still serializing to the real struct. It worked really well. I also go over some other possible ideas for using this concept. Start watching from here: https://youtu.be/ZxzczSDaobw?t=18m24s Andrei suggested doing a blog article (and actually I had started writing one, but it turned into this talk instead). I'll probably still do this. -Steve
Re: Boston D Meetup: Strawman Structs
On Tuesday, 25 July 2017 at 09:50:46 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Sunday, 2 July 2017 at 10:35:49 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I'll have a short presentation on a weird trick I discovered while writing some MySQL serialization code. Hope you can attend! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/d-lang-presentation-strawman-structs-tickets-35120523431 -Steve Is there a written summary of the idea? Or is there a specific point in the video someone could point me to? Basically using structs to describe layouts (among other relations) and in turn use that to drive DbI automated code. The DbI is the only "code" the rest is declarative using the type system. Steven was using it to describe what columns ( name and type) a query should return from a DB and the using DbI to generate the Query.
Re: Boston D Meetup: Strawman Structs
On Sunday, 2 July 2017 at 10:35:49 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I'll have a short presentation on a weird trick I discovered while writing some MySQL serialization code. Hope you can attend! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/d-lang-presentation-strawman-structs-tickets-35120523431 -Steve Is there a written summary of the idea? Or is there a specific point in the video someone could point me to?
Re: Boston D Meetup: Strawman Structs
On 07/21/2017 05:55 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 7/2/17 6:35 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I'll have a short presentation on a weird trick I discovered while writing some MySQL serialization code. Hope you can attend! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxzczSDaobw Very cool.
Re: Boston D Meetup: Strawman Structs
On 7/23/17 9:50 AM, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
On Sunday, 23 July 2017 at 02:15:18 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
struct StrawmanRange(T)
{
...
void popFront() {}
}
How do you deal with ranges where `.popFront` returns the old front
element (`.front` requires copying the front element if the caller wants
to store it, `.popFront` can move it)?
As I said in the talk, there's not an actual library for this, it's just
an idea. I would say you could probably return Any here, and infer that
means the return type doesn't matter. Or you could have an attribute.
The idea is to communicate in some way to the "implements" function how
to create the right constraint.
-Steve
Re: Boston D Meetup: Strawman Structs
On Sunday, 23 July 2017 at 02:15:18 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
struct StrawmanRange(T)
{
...
void popFront() {}
}
How do you deal with ranges where `.popFront` returns the old
front element (`.front` requires copying the front element if the
caller wants to store it, `.popFront` can move it)?
Re: Boston D Meetup: Strawman Structs
On Sunday, 23 July 2017 at 02:15:18 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
On 7/21/17 8:49 PM, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
On Friday, 21 July 2017 at 21:55:01 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
On 7/2/17 6:35 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
I'll have a short presentation on a weird trick I discovered
while writing some MySQL serialization code. Hope you can
attend!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/d-lang-presentation-strawman-structs-tickets-35120523431
I've set up a live stream for this. No guarantees of the
quality, it will be audio + slideshow.
Waiting for people to arrive, so probably won't start until
at least 6:30.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxzczSDaobw
Great talk!
Thanks!
Regarding the inferred attribute problem with the concepts
like Straw-man usage, this should not be a problem with my
attributes DIP, since all special attributes become normal
attributes and you could just have an AliasSeq of the required
values.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but my concern is that
something like this:
struct StrawmanRange(T)
{
...
void popFront() {}
}
So popFront would be inferred to be pure, @safe, and nothrow.
However, since really we want to only do what was specified, we
don't want the compiler inferring this. More specifically, I
wouldn't want the `implements` function generating requirements
that a suitable range struct must have @safe nothrow pure
popFront. I don't think introspection can tell whether the
attributes were specified or inferred.
I don't see how being able to combine attributes is going to be
able to prevent compiler inference of them. Or maybe I am
missing something?
-Steve
Its the combining with AliasSeq in conjunction with being normal
(albeit compiler recognised) attributes that makes it work. It
doesn't matter what the compiler infers because the struct knows,
with RequiredAttributes, what attributes are _actually_ required
E.g.
struct RequiredAttributes(Values...)
if(AllSatisfy!(isCoreAttributeValue, Values))
{
alias values = AliasSeq!(Values);
}
struct StrawmanRange(T)
{
@RequiredAttributes!(): // i.e. no attributes required
// or use
//@RequiredAttributes!(safe,nothrow,nogc,pure): for very
strict functions
// can apply this on a per symbol basis too.
@property T front();
bool empty();
void popFront() {}
}
and reflect on the RequiredAttributes.values to force the
"correct" attributes in `implements` and `describeDifferences`.
// roughly and ignoring optional methods
bool Implements(Strawman,T)()
{
foreach(m; __traits(allMembers, Strawman)
{
static if (!hasMember!(T,m)
return false;
else static if (!isCovariantWith!(__traits(getMember, T,
m),getUDA!(__traits(getMember, Strawman, m), RequiredAttributes).
values)
return false;
}
return true;
}
Re: Boston D Meetup: Strawman Structs
On 7/21/17 8:49 PM, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
On Friday, 21 July 2017 at 21:55:01 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On 7/2/17 6:35 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
I'll have a short presentation on a weird trick I discovered while
writing some MySQL serialization code. Hope you can attend!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/d-lang-presentation-strawman-structs-tickets-35120523431
I've set up a live stream for this. No guarantees of the quality, it
will be audio + slideshow.
Waiting for people to arrive, so probably won't start until at least
6:30.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxzczSDaobw
Great talk!
Thanks!
Regarding the inferred attribute problem with the concepts like
Straw-man usage, this should not be a problem with my attributes DIP,
since all special attributes become normal attributes and you could just
have an AliasSeq of the required values.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but my concern is that something like this:
struct StrawmanRange(T)
{
...
void popFront() {}
}
So popFront would be inferred to be pure, @safe, and nothrow. However,
since really we want to only do what was specified, we don't want the
compiler inferring this. More specifically, I wouldn't want the
`implements` function generating requirements that a suitable range
struct must have @safe nothrow pure popFront. I don't think
introspection can tell whether the attributes were specified or inferred.
I don't see how being able to combine attributes is going to be able to
prevent compiler inference of them. Or maybe I am missing something?
-Steve
Re: Boston D Meetup: Strawman Structs
On Friday, 21 July 2017 at 21:55:01 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 7/2/17 6:35 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I'll have a short presentation on a weird trick I discovered while writing some MySQL serialization code. Hope you can attend! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/d-lang-presentation-strawman-structs-tickets-35120523431 I've set up a live stream for this. No guarantees of the quality, it will be audio + slideshow. Waiting for people to arrive, so probably won't start until at least 6:30. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxzczSDaobw -Steve Great talk! It seems great mids think alike, I will be using this to implement OpenCL's horrible getInfo. https://github.com/libmir/dcompute/blob/master/source/dcompute/driver/ocl120/util.d#L36 https://github.com/libmir/dcompute/blob/master/source/dcompute/driver/ocl120/device.d#L67 Regarding the inferred attribute problem with the concepts like Straw-man usage, this should not be a problem with my attributes DIP, since all special attributes become normal attributes and you could just have an AliasSeq of the required values.
Re: Boston D Meetup: Strawman Structs
On 7/2/17 6:35 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I'll have a short presentation on a weird trick I discovered while writing some MySQL serialization code. Hope you can attend! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/d-lang-presentation-strawman-structs-tickets-35120523431 I've set up a live stream for this. No guarantees of the quality, it will be audio + slideshow. Waiting for people to arrive, so probably won't start until at least 6:30. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxzczSDaobw -Steve
Re: Boston D Meetup: Strawman Structs
On 7/2/17 6:35 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I'll have a short presentation on a weird trick I discovered while writing some MySQL serialization code. Hope you can attend! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/d-lang-presentation-strawman-structs-tickets-35120523431 I've moved this to Friday to accommodate more people. -Steve
Boston D Meetup: Strawman Structs
I'll have a short presentation on a weird trick I discovered while writing some MySQL serialization code. Hope you can attend! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/d-lang-presentation-strawman-structs-tickets-35120523431 -Steve
