Re: Private imports and Objects

2017-11-29 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, November 30, 2017 06:29:43 helxi via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > 1. Why are imports visible from outside the package when you do > selective imports? > > //mod.d > module mod; > > import std.stdio : writeln; > > public void greet() > { > writeln("Hello"); > } > > > //app.d >

Re: std.range.interfaces : InputRange moveFront

2017-11-29 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 11/29/2017 08:31 PM, Tony wrote: What does the moveFront() method do in the InputRange interface? std.range.interfaces : InputRange.moveFront() move is an operation that transfers the state of the source to the destination. The front element becomes its .init value and its previous

Private imports and Objects

2017-11-29 Thread helxi via Digitalmars-d-learn
1. Why are imports visible from outside the package when you do selective imports? //mod.d module mod; import std.stdio : writeln; public void greet() { writeln("Hello"); } //app.d import mod; void main() { mod.greet(); writeln("You should not be seeing this."); }

std.range.interfaces : InputRange moveFront

2017-11-29 Thread Tony via Digitalmars-d-learn
What does the moveFront() method do in the InputRange interface? std.range.interfaces : InputRange.moveFront()

Re: Changing the class data underneath some reference

2017-11-29 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 11/29/17 10:22 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: With classes, you could also assign the entire state of the object similar to what you'd get with structs and opAssign, but you'd have to write a member function to do it. There's no reason that you couldn't do the equivalent of opAssign. It's just

Re: Andrei's "The D Programming Language" book. Up to date?

2017-11-29 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, November 29, 2017 17:26:11 Nick Treleaven via Digitalmars-d- learn wrote: > On Wednesday, 4 October 2017 at 20:49:26 UTC, John Gabriele wrote: > > What's changed in the language, library, and community since > > then that I should be aware of if following along with and > > learning

Re: Changing the class data underneath some reference

2017-11-29 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, November 29, 2017 21:12:58 Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On 11/29/17 7:40 PM, David Colson wrote: > > Hello all! > > > > I'm getting settled into D and I came into a problem. A code sample > > shows it best: > > > > class SomeType > > { > > > > string

Re: Changing the class data underneath some reference

2017-11-29 Thread A Guy With a Question via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 30 November 2017 at 00:40:51 UTC, David Colson wrote: Hello all! I'm getting settled into D and I came into a problem. A code sample shows it best: class SomeType { string text; this(string input) {text = input;} } void main() { SomeType foo = new

Re: Changing the class data underneath some reference

2017-11-29 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 11/29/17 7:40 PM, David Colson wrote: Hello all! I'm getting settled into D and I came into a problem. A code sample shows it best: class SomeType {     string text;     this(string input) {text = input;} } void main() {     SomeType foo = new SomeType("Hello");     SomeType bar =

Re: Floating point types default to NaN?

2017-11-29 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 24 November 2017 at 14:30:44 UTC, A Guy With a Question wrote: I would have expected 0 to be the default value. What's the logic behind having them being NaN by default? https://dlang.org/spec/type.html http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/nans-just-dont-get-no-respect/240005723

Re: Changing the class data underneath some reference

2017-11-29 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 30 November 2017 at 00:52:25 UTC, codephantom wrote: ... sorry, don't know how the int * got in there ;-) Anyway..who said you can't use pointers in D? Just change: //SomeType bar = foo; SomeType * bar =

Re: Changing the class data underneath some reference

2017-11-29 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 30 November 2017 at 00:40:51 UTC, David Colson wrote: Hello all! I'm getting settled into D and I came into a problem. A code sample shows it best: class SomeType { string text; this(string input) {text = input;} } void main() { SomeType foo = new

Re: Changing the class data underneath some reference

2017-11-29 Thread David Colson via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 30 November 2017 at 00:40:51 UTC, David Colson wrote: Hello all! I'm getting settled into D and I came into a problem. A code sample shows it best: class SomeType { string text; this(string input) {text = input;} } void main() { SomeType foo = new

Changing the class data underneath some reference

2017-11-29 Thread David Colson via Digitalmars-d-learn
Hello all! I'm getting settled into D and I came into a problem. A code sample shows it best: class SomeType { string text; this(string input) {text = input;} } void main() { SomeType foo = new SomeType("Hello"); SomeType bar = foo; foo = new SomeType("World");

Re: Basic questions about D lang?

2017-11-29 Thread Jesse Phillips via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 13:39:11 UTC, Jayam wrote: Can we compile our program to multi program ? Based on your C# reference you must be referring to the "Mixed Platform" build option. No, that is a .NET thing and D is not on .NET (that project has died). D requires a more

Re: Andrei's "The D Programming Language" book. Up to date?

2017-11-29 Thread John Gabriele via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 17:26:11 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote: On Wednesday, 4 October 2017 at 20:49:26 UTC, John Gabriele wrote: What's changed in the language, library, and community since then that I should be aware of if following along with and learning from that book? Here's a

Re: Andrei's "The D Programming Language" book. Up to date?

2017-11-29 Thread Nick Treleaven via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 17:50:59 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: Multiple alias this You can only have one subtyping member currently. Shared Not all of shared's guarantees are implemented yet. SafeD @safe (and therefore SafeD) isn't fully implemented. So, it doesn't necessarily

Re: Andrei's "The D Programming Language" book. Up to date?

2017-11-29 Thread Arun Chandrasekaran via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 17:26:11 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote: Here's a list of significant things - maybe incomplete: https://wiki.dlang.org/Differences_With_TDPL Multiple alias this You can only have one subtyping member currently. Shared Not all of shared's guarantees are

Re: Andrei's "The D Programming Language" book. Up to date?

2017-11-29 Thread Nick Treleaven via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 4 October 2017 at 20:49:26 UTC, John Gabriele wrote: What's changed in the language, library, and community since then that I should be aware of if following along with and learning from that book? Here's a list of significant things - maybe incomplete:

Re: Shared and race conditions

2017-11-29 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 17:03:42 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 11/29/17 11:13 AM, Wanderer wrote: I'm trying to simulate a race condition in D with the following code: (https://run.dlang.io/is/RfOX0I) One word of caution, I think the running of your code on run.dlang.io is

Re: Shared and race conditions

2017-11-29 Thread Wanderer via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 17:03:42 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 11/29/17 11:13 AM, Wanderer wrote: I'm trying to simulate a race condition in D with the following code: (https://run.dlang.io/is/RfOX0I) One word of caution, I think the running of your code on run.dlang.io is

Re: Shared and race conditions

2017-11-29 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 11/29/17 11:13 AM, Wanderer wrote: I'm trying to simulate a race condition in D with the following code: (https://run.dlang.io/is/RfOX0I) One word of caution, I think the running of your code on run.dlang.io is cached. Refreshing doesn't make it re-run. https://run.dlang.io/is/k0LhQA

Re: Shared and race conditions

2017-11-29 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 11/29/17 11:51 AM, Michael wrote: On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 16:33:50 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 11/29/17 11:13 AM, Wanderer wrote: [...] [snip] [...] Using the compiler switch -vcg-ast, I see no synchronization of these methods. [...] Any idea what has changed in

Re: Shared and race conditions

2017-11-29 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 11/29/17 11:46 AM, Wanderer wrote: On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 16:33:50 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 11/29/17 11:13 AM, Wanderer wrote: [...] [snip] [...] Using the compiler switch -vcg-ast, I see no synchronization of these methods. [...] That's what I assume, I was

Re: Shared and race conditions

2017-11-29 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 16:33:50 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 11/29/17 11:13 AM, Wanderer wrote: [...] [snip] [...] Using the compiler switch -vcg-ast, I see no synchronization of these methods. [...] Any idea what has changed in DMD-nightly to retain the correct

Re: Shared and race conditions

2017-11-29 Thread Wanderer via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 16:33:50 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 11/29/17 11:13 AM, Wanderer wrote: [...] [snip] [...] Using the compiler switch -vcg-ast, I see no synchronization of these methods. [...] That's what I assume, I was just lucky not to see a race. Thanks

Re: Shared and race conditions

2017-11-29 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 11/29/17 11:13 AM, Wanderer wrote: I'm trying to simulate a race condition in D with the following code: [snip] But all I get is correct IDs without any sign of a race (i.e. duplicate ids). Does compiler add synchronization for `shared` data? Using the compiler switch -vcg-ast, I see

Re: Shared and race conditions

2017-11-29 Thread Wanderer via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 16:19:05 UTC, Michael wrote: On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 16:13:13 UTC, Wanderer wrote: [...] I unfortunately cannot answer your question but I am noticing that running the code with DMD gives you an unordered sequence of IDs, but running with

Re: Shared and race conditions

2017-11-29 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 16:19:05 UTC, Michael wrote: On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 16:13:13 UTC, Wanderer wrote: [...] I unfortunately cannot answer your question but I am noticing that running the code with DMD gives you an unordered sequence of IDs, but running with

Re: Shared and race conditions

2017-11-29 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 16:13:13 UTC, Wanderer wrote: I'm trying to simulate a race condition in D with the following code: (https://run.dlang.io/is/RfOX0I) ``` import std.stdio; import core.thread; import std.concurrency; shared struct IdGen(T) { T id; this(T start) {

Shared and race conditions

2017-11-29 Thread Wanderer via Digitalmars-d-learn
I'm trying to simulate a race condition in D with the following code: (https://run.dlang.io/is/RfOX0I) ``` import std.stdio; import core.thread; import std.concurrency; shared struct IdGen(T) { T id; this(T start) { id = start; } T next() { id =

Re: Basic questions about D lang?

2017-11-29 Thread user1234 via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 11:32:51 UTC, Jayam wrote: In D lang, [...] 3. Can we make library file and use that in any project like 'Util class' ? Of course ! Plenty of them can be found here: https://code.dlang.org/?sort=updated=library

Re: Basic questions about D lang?

2017-11-29 Thread crimaniak via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 11:32:51 UTC, Jayam wrote: In D lang, 1. Is there any feature async/ await like "c#" ? I can't find feature like async. As for me, async/await feature is a half-baked solution. With vibe-d you can write asynchronous code without thinking about it at all.

Re: Basic questions about D lang?

2017-11-29 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 29/11/2017 11:32 AM, Jayam wrote: In D lang, 1. Is there any feature async/ await like "c#" ? I can't find feature like async. No. The idea is floating around however. 2. Is Garbage Collector work default without any code to force like in c# or do we need to manually trigger it ?

Basic questions about D lang?

2017-11-29 Thread Jayam via Digitalmars-d-learn
In D lang, 1. Is there any feature async/ await like "c#" ? I can't find feature like async. 2. Is Garbage Collector work default without any code to force like in c# or do we need to manually trigger it ? 3. Can we make library file and use that in any project like 'Util class' ?

Re: Strange error when compiling with dmd, not with ldc

2017-11-29 Thread user1234 via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 10:55:35 UTC, user1234 wrote: On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 06:18:09 UTC, Fra Mecca wrote: [...] You must also use a type constructor later, when a Configuration is declared: ``` immutable(Configuration) config; config.toString.writeln; // okay this

Re: Strange error when compiling with dmd, not with ldc

2017-11-29 Thread user1234 via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 06:18:09 UTC, Fra Mecca wrote: I have this struct: immutable struct Configuration { string title; string baseurl; string url; string email; string author; string parser; string target; string urlFormat; string urlFormatCmd;