An implementation of binary assignment operators for @property
functions has been submitted to the DMD pull request queue at
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7079. It addresses the
following issues:
Issue 8006 - Implement proper in-place-modification for properties
On Friday, 13 October 2017 at 11:54:38 UTC, Jack Applegame wrote:
On Friday, 13 October 2017 at 11:21:48 UTC, Biotronic wrote:
BountySource[2] lets you do basically exactly that.
My experience says that BountySource almost doesn't help.
It works if the bounty is worth someone sacrificing
On Monday, 16 October 2017 at 03:29:03 UTC, Michael V. Franklin
wrote:
My experience says that BountySource almost doesn't help.
It works if the bounty is worth someone sacrificing their free
time to do the work. For example, I'd attempt fixing the bug
if the bounty were greater than
I've been battling DMD's Travis CI for the past couple of weeks
with a few of my pull requests. It often fails for various
reasons that have nothing to do with my PRs (e.g. "The job
exceeded the maximum time limit for jobs, and has been
terminated.") It's also takes almost half a day to
On Sunday, 10 September 2017 at 01:25:29 UTC, Michael V. Franklin
wrote:
I've been battling DMD's Travis CI for the past couple of weeks
with a few of my pull requests. It often fails for various
reasons that have nothing to do with my PRs (e.g. "The job
exceeded the maximum time limit for
On Thursday, 24 August 2017 at 18:26:37 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
For instance, a D project targeting STM board, makes heavy use
of classes and templates, resultant code segment is 3k.
https://github.com/JinShil/stm32f42_discovery_demo#the-good
To be fair, though, the above-mentioned project
On Thursday, 24 August 2017 at 19:21:31 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 8/24/2017 11:56 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
I find -betterC to be somewhat of a copout for avoiding the
hard work of improving D's implementation.
On the contrary, I view it as providing motivation for dealing
with those
On Friday, 25 August 2017 at 23:13:53 UTC, Mengu wrote:
On Friday, 25 August 2017 at 00:24:14 UTC, Michael V. Franklin
wrote:
On Thursday, 24 August 2017 at 19:21:31 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
[...]
Great! I look forward to seeing improvements and hope to help.
[...]
i believe that should
On Friday, 25 August 2017 at 21:08:59 UTC, Macdonal wrote:
What is the best D-Programming Book?
Start here (http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html) and then go
here (https://wiki.dlang.org/Books)
Mike
These pull request were submitted a few days ago, but appear to
have gone unnoticed.
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7097
https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/5704
I'm assuming that is because neither currently passes the test
suite.
I'm making this forum post to bring attention to the
On Monday, 28 August 2017 at 00:21:00 UTC, Michael V. Franklin
wrote:
These pull request were submitted a few days ago, but appear to
have gone unnoticed.
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7097
https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/5704
I'm assuming that is because neither currently passes the
On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 at 17:44:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
I confess that I tend to think of betterC as a waste of time.
Clearly, there are folks who find it useful, but it loses so
much that I see no point in using it for anything unless I have
no choice. As long as attempts to
On Thursday, 31 August 2017 at 02:20:00 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran
wrote:
Just a thought. Can dmd demangle the symbols before spitting
the output of ld to stderr?
dmd doesn't print the output of ld to stderr, ld does.
I believe binutils has some support for D symbol demangling
thanks to the
On Wednesday, 30 August 2017 at 00:29:19 UTC, Parke wrote:
But my original question was about what you (Kagamin) called
"intermediate D". I was trying to understand what
"intermediate D"
is, and whether or not I could use "intermediate D" (whatever
it is)
to produce small(er) executables.
On Thursday, 31 August 2017 at 02:51:25 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran
wrote:
I was looking at src/ddmd/link.d, has the below that reads the
output of ld.
Ah, right you are. My apologies.
It'd probably be simple enough to have that demangling on by
default. Maybe I'll give it a go later today.
On Wednesday, 11 October 2017 at 14:30:54 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky
wrote:
My motivation is, of course, std.regex.
static immutable r = regex("abc");
This is perfectly fine but because in general there is some
amount of impurtiy in regex and it won't work. Yet regex is
called at CTFE so there is
On Tuesday, 14 November 2017 at 13:17:22 UTC, Steven
Schveighoffer wrote:
The array handling is probably the only part that would be
painful. but we could handle that the same way we deprecated
octal numbers:
bools!"01001101"; => [false, true, false, false, true, true,
false, true];
On Tuesday, 14 November 2017 at 13:54:03 UTC, Steven
Schveighoffer wrote:
IMO, no character types should implicitly convert from integer
types. In fact, character types shouldn't convert from ANYTHING
(even other character types). We have so many problems with
this.
Is everyone in general
On Tuesday, 14 November 2017 at 13:20:22 UTC, Nick Treleaven
wrote:
An very similar problem exists for int and char overloads:
alias foo = (char c) => 1;
alias foo = (int i) => 4;
enum int e = 7;
static assert(foo(e) == 4); // fails
Wait a minute! This doesn't appear to be a casting or
On Tuesday, 14 November 2017 at 23:41:39 UTC, Steven
Schveighoffer wrote:
An very similar problem exists for int and char overloads:
alias foo = (char c) => 1;
alias foo = (int i) => 4;
enum int e = 7;
static assert(foo(e) == 4); // fails
Wait a minute! This doesn't appear to be a casting
On Tuesday, 14 November 2017 at 23:53:49 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Argh, should've checked before I posted. What I meant was more
something like this:
import std.stdio;
void f(dchar) { writeln("dchar overload"); }
void f(ubyte) { writeln("ubyte overload"); }
void
On Wednesday, 15 November 2017 at 04:30:32 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
I just tried:
import core.stdc.stdio;
void foo(char c) { printf("char\n"); }
void foo(int c) { printf("int\n"); }
void main() {
enum int e = 1;
foo(e);
foo(1);
foo('c');
}
and it prints:
int
On Wednesday, 15 November 2017 at 04:24:58 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 11/14/2017 5:20 AM, Nick Treleaven wrote:
An very similar problem exists for int and char overloads:
alias foo = (char c) => 1;
alias foo = (int i) => 4;
enum int e = 7;
static assert(foo(e) == 4); // fails
I cannot
On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 19:34:27 UTC, A Guy With an
Opinion wrote:
I take it adding those inverse attributes is no trivial thing?
It would require a DIP: https://github.com/dlang/DIPs
This DIP is related
(https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/DIP1012.md) but I
don't know
On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 23:05:55 UTC, Michael V. Franklin
wrote:
I think I'm going to implement a feature gate to require
explicit initialization. It would be better to be strict up
front and relax it as flow control analysis becomes more mature.
Well, I implemented it
On Tuesday, 21 November 2017 at 10:04:50 UTC, Petar Kirov
[ZombineDev] wrote:
File a bug report and try contacting Martin Nowak, as he's the
author of this test, IIRC.
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18013
Fix compiler preferring `body` to `do`
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7347
Fix issue 6400 - Better interaction between with() and opDispatch
(Part 2)
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7356
Fix Issue 15094 - __traits(getMember) fails when the source is a
struct/class field
On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 00:14:40 UTC, IM wrote:
- D is unnecessarily a huge language. I remember in DConf 2014,
Scott Meyers gave a talk about the last thing D needs, which is
a guy like him writing a lot of books covering the many
subtleties of the language. However, it seems that the
On Wednesday, 22 November 2017 at 15:10:40 UTC, Oleg B wrote:
import core.stdc.stdio;
import std.algorithm : min;
extern (C) void main()
{
char[256] buf;
buf[] = '\0';
auto str = "hello world";
auto ln = min(buf.length, str.length);
buf[0..ln] = str[0..ln];
On Thursday, 23 November 2017 at 00:58:21 UTC, Marc wrote:
for example:
enum A { a = -10, b = -11, c = -12, d = -13, e = -34}
enum int countOfA = coutOfFields(A); // 5 fields
https://dlang.org/spec/traits.html#allMembers
enum A { a = -10, b = -11, c = -12, d = -13, e = -34}
enum int
On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 19:38:44 UTC, Meta wrote:
I'd be interested in working on a DIP like this Michael, but I
also want to expand the scope to allowing UDAs on function
arguments as well. We should have some solid use cases in mind;
let's take this to private email.
I'm on IRC
On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 01:24:21 UTC, A Guy With a
Question wrote:
I was just more curious of the design decisions that were made.
So am I. I'm trying to get to the heart of in the the PR
comments.
Mike
On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 03:01:33 UTC, A Guy With an
Opinion wrote:
+ D code so far is pushing me towards more "flat" code (for a
lack of a better way to phrase it) and so far that has helped
tremendously when it comes to readability. C# kind is the
opposite. With it's namespace ->
On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 04:48:57 UTC, A Guy With an
Opinion wrote:
I'd be happy to submit an issue, but I'm not quite sure I'd be
the best to determine an error message (at least not this
early). Mainly because I have no clue what it was yelling at me
about. I only new to add static
On Saturday, 25 November 2017 at 22:13:43 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
It technically did:
https://dlang.org/spec/function.html#local-variables
"It is an error to use a local variable without first assigning
it a value. The implementation may not always be able to detect
these cases. Other
On Sunday, 19 November 2017 at 13:35:13 UTC, Michael V. Franklin
wrote:
Apparently user-defined attributes are not permitted on enum
members.
Issue is documented here:
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9701
Pull request implementing the feature is here:
On Sunday, 19 November 2017 at 13:35:13 UTC, Michael V. Franklin
wrote:
What's the official word? Does it require a DIP?
For those who might want to know, Walter has informed me that
this change will require a DIP. I already have two DIPs in the
queue right now, so I wouldn't mind if
On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 16:57:36 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Doesn't this mean that we should rather focus our efforts on
improving druntime instead of throwing out the baby with the
bathwater with BetterC?
Exactly! We should be making a better D, not a better C.
Mike
On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 01:49:19 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
There is a definite difference between posting stuff in the
newsgroup to get attention brought to something and posting in
the newsgroup to get an official answer on something from
Walter or Andrei.
My question was on
On Sunday, 3 December 2017 at 12:20:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
It may indeed work to use a special druntime. My expectation,
however, is that it's a lot more work trying to develop and
support another runtime library, and a lot more work for the
user trying to get that library worked into
On Friday, 17 November 2017 at 08:12:13 UTC, Shachar Shemesh
wrote:
Is there a way to enumerate all the unittests in a specific
module?
Try this: https://dlang.org/spec/traits.html#getUnitTests
Mike
I'll just refer you to this comment:
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6947#issuecomment-345423103
Manually merging this pull as it sat around long enough waiting
to be marked approved that it accumulated github's max 1000
status updates per commit id and won't ever see more until a
new
On Friday, 17 November 2017 at 02:13:54 UTC, matthewh wrote:
[...]
as is it produces:
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
[]
I expected it to produce:
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
And with the toString override included it does.
Why does the version without the toString override
What's the official word on this:
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6404
Does it need a DIP?
If I revive it will it go anywhere?
What needs to be done to move it forward?
Thanks,
Mike
On Sunday, 12 November 2017 at 13:34:50 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky
wrote:
However, I’d hate to rewrite things like:
if (a & (flag1 | flag2))
to
if ((a & (flag1 | flag2)) != 0)
When the first is quite obvious.
I don't think the proposal to deprecate integer literal
conversions to `bool` would
On Sunday, 12 November 2017 at 13:49:51 UTC, Michael V. Franklin
wrote:
I don't think the proposal to deprecate integer literal
conversions to `bool` would affect that as there doesn't appear
to be an integer literal in the code.
Nevermind. I see what you mean now.
Mike
On Monday, 13 November 2017 at 16:12:42 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Probably a good sign that they mention D with C++ and Rust and
have looked at D features:
https://github.com/zig-lang/zig/wiki/Why-Zig-When-There-is-Already-CPP%2C-D%2C-and-Rust%3F
"D has @property functions, which are methods that
On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 23:30:18 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
A DIP is necessary for all language changes. In this case a
short and well-argued DIP seems to be the ticket. Walter and I
spoke and such a proposal has a good chance to be successful.
Subject issues:
On Tuesday, 14 November 2017 at 13:32:52 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
An very similar problem exists for int and char overloads:
alias foo = (char c) => 1;
alias foo = (int i) => 4;
enum int e = 7;
static assert(foo(e) == 4); // fails
Thanks. Addressing this should be part of the DIP as
On Monday, 13 November 2017 at 19:04:16 UTC, Ivan Butygin wrote:
You need to explicitly compile `@dynamicCompile` functions
before using any of them.
Interesting feature. So is the executable linked to an installed
instance of LDC/LLVM to make this happen, or is there some
limited compiler
On Tuesday, 14 November 2017 at 13:43:32 UTC, Michael V. Franklin
wrote:
An very similar problem exists for int and char overloads:
alias foo = (char c) => 1;
alias foo = (int i) => 4;
enum int e = 7;
static assert(foo(e) == 4); // fails
Thanks. Addressing this should be part of the DIP as
I'm getting this error when I try to run the DMD test suite.
cd dmd
make -C test -f Makefile
... runnable/test_cdvecfill.d -O (-mcpu=avx -mcpu=avx2)
Test failed. The logged output:
../src/dmd -conf= -m64 -Irunnable -O -odtest_results/runnable
-oftest_results/runnable/test_cdvecfill_0
Apparently user-defined attributes are not permitted on enum
members.
Issue is documented here:
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9701
Pull request implementing the feature is here:
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6161
The pull request seems to have stalled over how to get the
I've resurrected a PR that fixes an implementation bug.
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7332
The existing implementation does not comply with the spec. The
PR fixes that, but it may cause breakage, so in the original PR,
there was a preference to have it go through the deprecation
On Monday, 20 November 2017 at 05:16:22 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Anyone know how to get the .svg file from this? My attempts
have failed :-(
I took this out of the page source.
https://web.archive.org/web/20050213192555if_/http://w148.de:80/~mmartin/d/dlogo.svg
Mike
On Sunday, 19 November 2017 at 15:57:58 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
It isn't specific to UDAs. You can't put _any_ attributes on
enums - including something like deprecated (though to be fair,
not many attributes would make sense on an enum member).
On Thursday, 16 November 2017 at 07:24:44 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
Try it here: https://run.dlang.io/is/nfMGfG
DMD-nightly
Cool, thanks. That seems to be an unrelated bug. Have you added
it to bugzilla? Thanks! -- Andrei
Bugzilla Issue is here:
I ran into this blog post today:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/11/15/nullable-reference-types-in-csharp/
It peeked my interested, because when I first started studying D,
the lack of any warning or error for this trivial case surprised
me.
// Example A
class Test
{
int
On Friday, 17 November 2017 at 02:13:54 UTC, matthewh wrote:
And with the toString override included it does.
Why does the version without the toString override output an
empty array?
I think that is due to this bug:
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13189
It's actually on my todo
On Friday, 17 November 2017 at 02:16:35 UTC, Michael V. Franklin
wrote:
On Friday, 17 November 2017 at 02:13:54 UTC, matthewh wrote:
And with the toString override included it does.
Why does the version without the toString override output an
empty array?
I think that is due to this bug:
On Sunday, 12 November 2017 at 16:57:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
A DIP could be formulated to only address the problem at hand.
BTW, here's a really fun example:
void fun(long) { assert(0); }
void fun(bool) {}
enum int a = 2;
enum int b = 1;
void main()
{
fun(a - b);
}
The
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 03:40:23 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
Is there a magic visible sign (or even one needed) in the D
language that tells D _compilers_ not to move certain types of
memory load / store operations forwards or backwards relative
to other operations when optimising the code
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 05:54:00 UTC, Michael V. Franklin
wrote:
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 03:40:23 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
Is there a magic visible sign (or even one needed) in the D
language that tells D _compilers_ not to move certain types of
memory load / store operations
On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 20:53:44 UTC, Dr. Assembly wrote:
Hey guys, if I were to get into dmd's source code to play a
little bit (just for fun, no commercial use at all), which
books/resources do you recommend to start out?
I found this to be quite helpful:
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 06:22:51 UTC, Tony wrote:
Doing a port of some C code that has an #ifdef in the middle of
an initialization for an array of structs. I am getting a
compile error trying to get equivalent behavior with "static
if" or "version". Is there a way to achieve this other
On Sunday, 3 December 2017 at 23:34:13 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
If -betterC motivates people to come up with better solutions,
I'm all for it.
A better solution would be to do what Iain said:
Try compiling a simple "hello world" with an empty object.d
file. Then inspect what the compiler
On Monday, 4 December 2017 at 00:25:53 UTC, Michael V. Franklin
wrote:
A better solution would be to do what Iain said:
Try compiling a simple "hello world" with an empty object.d
file. Then inspect what the compiler does. Does it error and
exit, or does it ICE? What can be done to
On Monday, 4 December 2017 at 01:01:47 UTC, Michael V. Franklin
wrote:
.$> dmd -defaultlib= -debuglib= -conf= main.d -of=main
/usr/bin/ld: main.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against
`.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a shared object;
recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed:
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