On Tuesday, 15 April 2014 at 11:04:42 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
"Manu via Digitalmars-d" wrote in
message
news:mailman.9.1397553786.2763.digitalmar...@puremagic.com...
Huh? Do methods work now? Since when?
Since I needed them for DDMD.
Is this[1] then out of date and I can interface wit
On Wednesday, 16 April 2014 at 14:00:24 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
"Moritz Maxeiner" wrote in message
news:kvzwlecwougswrqka...@forum.dlang.org...
Is this[1] then out of date and I can interface with
non-virtual methods? Because that's what your post seems to
imply (unless I misunderstood).
On Saturday, 14 March 2015 at 20:15:30 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I've often thought, as do many others here, that immutability
should be the default for variables.
Case (1) is what I'm talking about here. If it is made const,
then there are a couple ways forward in declaring a mutable
variabl
On Sunday, 22 March 2015 at 01:44:32 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
On Sunday, 22 March 2015 at 01:24:10 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
On Saturday, 21 March 2015 at 23:49:26 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
I actually think that there are two large categories of
programmers: those like writing the same loops over and
On Thursday, 9 April 2015 at 18:28:46 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
Am Wed, 08 Apr 2015 13:05:01 +
schrieb "Szymon Gatner" :
On Wednesday, 8 April 2015 at 12:34:06 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>
> Since then, I always favor spaces over tabs. One space is
> always one space.
>
Not to start a war bu
On Wednesday, 2 August 2017 at 16:32:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
import std.algorithm;
// I probably wouldn't even define this but use the body as is
auto strnlen_safe(in char[] str)
{
return countUntil(cast(ubyte[]) str, '\0');
}
Oh that cast it irks me so.
-Steve
return str
On Wednesday, 2 August 2017 at 21:30:11 UTC, SCev wrote:
guys don't do your own IDE, i see everyone working on his own
IDE, please just make plugin for famous crossplatform IDE..
this will be better for comunity
But I'm NIH interested in having my own plugin for Sublime which
does exactly wha
On Thursday, 3 August 2017 at 00:18:38 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
Is there a single person who's the main maintainer of the D
website..?
If not, I have some ideas on how to improve it. Not just ideas,
I'd like to give a host at improving it myself, really.
AFAIK the website is maintained v
On Thursday, 3 August 2017 at 00:48:41 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
On Thursday, 3 August 2017 at 00:26:31 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
On Thursday, 3 August 2017 at 00:18:38 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic
wrote:
Is there a single person who's the main maintainer of the D
website..?
If not, I have some
On Friday, 4 August 2017 at 16:57:37 UTC, bitwise wrote:
I'm confused about how D's lambda capture actually works, and
can't find any clear specification on the issue. I've read the
comments on the bug about what's described below, but I'm still
confused. The conversation there dropped off in 2
On Friday, 4 August 2017 at 17:44:23 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
On 04.08.2017 19:36, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
Next I run `bar`. I get the same output of "4 4 4 4 4". While
this hack works in C#, I suppose it's reasonable to assume
the D compiler would just reuse stack space for `j`, and that
the C
On Friday, 4 August 2017 at 17:47:01 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
On Friday, 4 August 2017 at 17:44:23 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
On 04.08.2017 19:36, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
[...]
I was (explicitly) arguing that it's in keeping with the
current spec.
That the spec is unsound and should be update
On Sunday, 6 August 2017 at 12:14:16 UTC, Dmitry wrote:
I don't think so.
Why developer should use MacOS/Linux if the target platform is
Windows in most of cases?
A developer who mostly targets Windows wouldn't. But if you look
at the statistics [1] you'd see that in the category of systems
On Sunday, 6 August 2017 at 14:30:48 UTC, Ryion wrote:
On Sunday, 6 August 2017 at 14:16:20 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
[...]
How sure are you even with statistics...
On my work half the developers are on Mac, the other half are
on Windows. There is not a single Linux system. From the
windo
On Sunday, 6 August 2017 at 15:18:49 UTC, Ryion wrote:
On Sunday, 6 August 2017 at 14:49:47 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
1) Anecdotes are not useful here
2) macOS is UNIX, same as Linux, so I'm not sure why the
distinction matters as a reply to me
Same two points as above.
Thanks for the int
On Sunday, 6 August 2017 at 15:32:07 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Sunday, 6 August 2017 at 14:16:20 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
On Sunday, 6 August 2017 at 12:14:16 UTC, Dmitry wrote:
[...]
A developer who mostly targets Windows wouldn't. But if you
look at the statistics [1] you'd see that in
On Tuesday, 8 August 2017 at 15:40:08 UTC, Ryion wrote:
On Sunday, 6 August 2017 at 19:15:59 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
Your claim to have limited D skills doesn't prevent you from
writing a blog post detailing the things that are missing for
Windows development and showing how other languages deal
On Wednesday, 9 August 2017 at 07:59:46 UTC, Ryion wrote:
Maybe i made myself not very clear. Sorry about that.
I mention this as reading topics here shows the same behavior.
People complain. Specific people here keep responding how the
complainer needs to do it themselves or pay for it. Traci
On Wednesday, 9 August 2017 at 08:22:05 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote:
You can write it yourself :P, or pay someone to do it for you.
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 10:02 AM, Ryion via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
On Wednesday, 9 August 2017 at 07:59:46 UTC, Ryion wrote:
And that
On Monday, 14 August 2017 at 22:51:04 UTC, Johnson Jones wrote:
string do()
{
string x;
x = "adsf";
pragma(msg, x);
return x;
}
"do" is a keyword in D, you can't use it as an identifier.
fails because the compiler believes that x is not known at
compile time.
There are multip
On Tuesday, 15 August 2017 at 01:41:58 UTC, Johnson wrote:
On Tuesday, 15 August 2017 at 01:31:13 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
On Monday, 14 August 2017 at 22:51:04 UTC, Johnson Jones wrote:
string do()
{
string x;
x = "adsf";
pragma(msg, x);
return x;
}
"do" is a keyword in D, yo
On Tuesday, 15 August 2017 at 07:52:17 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
On Tuesday, 15 August 2017 at 03:53:44 UTC, Michael V. Franklin
wrote:
An implementation of binary assignment operators for @property
functions has been submitted to the DMD pull request queue at
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pul
On Wednesday, 16 August 2017 at 07:24:36 UTC, Biotronic wrote:
When Moritz commented on your use of 'do' as a function name,
that may have been unnecessary for a discussion of your problem.
I would contend that when discussing semantics (that is the PL's
syntax is not open for change as part
On Wednesday, 16 August 2017 at 10:03:56 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
You're right in that it was unnecessary to discuss the issue he
was describing, but it was relevant to me as a matter of
principle.
* You're right in that it was unnecessary for discussing the
issue he
was describing
Sorr
On Wednesday, 16 August 2017 at 13:53:40 UTC, Johnson wrote:
On Wednesday, 16 August 2017 at 10:03:56 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
On Wednesday, 16 August 2017 at 07:24:36 UTC, Biotronic wrote:
When Moritz commented on your use of 'do' as a function name,
that may have been unnecessary for a d
On Thursday, 17 August 2017 at 16:32:20 UTC, bitwise wrote:
The only problem would be the lack of actual @safe annotations
on the container, as they would only be applicable to one
variant, and otherwise cause a compile-time error.
[...]
Shouldn't the already compiler derive the appropriate a
On Tuesday, 22 August 2017 at 11:50:50 UTC, Jonas Mminnberg wrote:
Because of D's static initialization of members, this assert
fails:
class Test {
ubyte[] buf = new ubyte[1000];
}
void main() {
auto a = new Test();
auto b = new Test();
assert(a.buf.ptr != b.buf.ptr);
}
This i
On Tuesday, 22 August 2017 at 13:53:05 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote:
s/buf/bug/
On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 3:52 PM, Daniel Kozak
wrote:
On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 2:20 PM, Moritz Maxeiner via
Digitalmars-d < digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
On Tuesday, 22 August 2017 at 11:50:50 UTC,
On Tuesday, 22 August 2017 at 12:38:50 UTC, Jonas Mminnberg wrote:
On Tuesday, 22 August 2017 at 12:20:45 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
I agree that it can be confusing if you try to read it with
C++ semantics [1]; the solution, however, imho is not to
change D semantics or throw warnings [2]
On Tuesday, 22 August 2017 at 15:52:48 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Tuesday, 22 August 2017 at 14:53:21 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
There is a bug [1] - as others have pointed out - that the
static array isn't stored in TLS, but in global storage,
however, but that doesn't apply in this single thread
On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 at 01:22:44 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15075242
Or better yet, full :D.
I still find it strange how people willingly increase their own
attack surface with such software, when even a single missed
malware program is a total loss
On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 at 09:12:19 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Tuesday, 22 August 2017 at 16:28:43 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
class Test
{
ubyte[] buf = new ubyte[1000]; // thread local storage,
instances in the same thread refer to the same static array
}
Dynamic initialization is don
On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 at 18:03:22 UTC, lanphuonglien wrote:
Whilst DMD seems to be in MacPorts, GDC and LDC appear not to
be. Is this right? If it is then it is wrong – it would be
great if the person handling the DMD port could be supported to
get a LDC and GDC ports in place.
I am a
On Saturday, 26 August 2017 at 15:28:32 UTC, MacPortsUser wrote:
On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 at 22:55:20 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
[...]
If you aren't set on MacPorts, you can use homebrew for ldc.
With regards to gdc: A word of caution: Supporting it as a
separate package is a bit of a has
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 10:05:29 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
So I will be doing a workshop on programming for the biology
department at my university and I was wondering what would best
suit the users.
The following are a must:
support windows & mac ( the more consistent between the t
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 11:26:58 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
[...]
Just add the 4 examples I suggested, and you have a brand-new
beginner-friendly website without changing anything else to the
website canvas.
If you want a change in D's web presence submit a PR to [1] or
one of [2] as a
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 11:50:18 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 11:36:57 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 11:26:58 UTC, Ecstatic Coder
wrote:
[...]
Just add the 4 examples I suggested, and you have a brand-new
beginner-friendly website wit
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 13:12:22 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
I agree, but here it's not a local modification I've done to a
D library that I want to push so that other people can use it
too.
It's a change to the main landing page of the dlang.org
website, which is by definition global and
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 13:15:41 UTC, Ryion wrote:
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 10:05:29 UTC, Nicholas Wilson
wrote:
The following are a must:
no large install footprint
Visual Studio Code seems to be what you need.
[...]
Relative low memory footprint for the functionality ( compare
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 16:22:44 UTC, Jerry wrote:
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 15:17:51 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 13:15:41 UTC, Ryion wrote:
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 10:05:29 UTC, Nicholas Wilson
wrote:
The following are a must:
no large install foo
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 18:07:27 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
I've already received enough "No, not interested" answers
till now to the same proposal to think that this will be ok
this time.
Add my voice to that corpus - I honestly don't care what the
website looks like.
Ok, message rece
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 18:14:07 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 18:08:52 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
Indeed, but that's only the raw executable, not the full
package (which includes things like syntax highlighting),
which adds another 26MB.
But, yes, Textadept and v
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 19:29:03 UTC, Ryion wrote:
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 18:51:00 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
Thanks, but as I pointed out, the website's design is of no
interest to me personally.
As I said, you aren't going to change my interests (and I'm
reasonable convinced you
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 20:13:35 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
Following what you said, I've just looked at both Github
accounts, and I can clearly see that it's much above my skill
set to merge the content of both D-based websites so that the
main page of the Dlang website looks exactly like
On Monday, 28 August 2017 at 20:48:44 UTC, Ryion wrote:
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 18:08:52 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
It's nearly ten times the size, so yeah, it is relative to
Textadept.
You can say the same thing in comparison with vim which is
only a 2MB install size,
20MB in comparis
On Monday, 28 August 2017 at 23:57:01 UTC, Mengu wrote:
On Monday, 28 August 2017 at 17:16:59 UTC, Mengu wrote:
On Monday, 28 August 2017 at 08:19:10 UTC, Petar Kirov
[ZombineDev] wrote:
On Monday, 28 August 2017 at 07:52:00 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Monday, 28 August 2017 at 07:44:48 UTC, Wulfkla
On Tuesday, 29 August 2017 at 14:05:13 UTC, Ryion wrote:
On Monday, 28 August 2017 at 21:17:19 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
Why "again"? You've not stated so before AFAICT.
Regardless, I disagree that discussing the validity of
recommendations in a thread specifically made to gather such
recomm
On Wednesday, 30 August 2017 at 14:05:40 UTC, Mark wrote:
[...]
int abs(int x)
out(_ >= 0)
{
return x>0 ? x : -x;
}
The ambiguity issue of having two results in one scope [1]
applies.
[1] http://forum.dlang.org/post/oihbot$134s$1...@digitalmars.com
On Wednesday, 30 August 2017 at 20:23:18 UTC, Johnson Jones wrote:
It would be nice if, when symbols are missing, they are
unmangled!
Error 42: Symbol Undefined
_D12mMunchhousin12iMunchhousin11__T4GoTsZ4GoMFS12mMunchhousin18__T10MunchhousinTsZ10sMunchhousinfE12mMunchhousin9eGoffZv (void Munchh
On Wednesday, 30 August 2017 at 21:30:44 UTC, Jerry wrote:
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 18:08:52 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
The requirements are rather vague, you can interpret it in a
number of ways.
The sensible interpretation imho is "as low an install
footprint as possible while still fu
On Thursday, 31 August 2017 at 14:51:59 UTC, Mike Wey wrote:
On 30-08-17 23:51, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
2) Try to get demangling of D symbols into upstream of the
currently common linkers (GNU linker, gold, lld, etc.)
The GNU linker and gold support demangling D symbols, so if you
are on linux
On Thursday, 31 August 2017 at 23:20:52 UTC, Jerry wrote:
On Wednesday, 30 August 2017 at 22:42:40 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
On Wednesday, 30 August 2017 at 21:30:44 UTC, Jerry wrote:
The install requirement is arbitrary, and why 20MB? It just
seems like you are trying to advertise that progr
On Saturday, 2 September 2017 at 20:17:40 UTC, Robert M. Münch
wrote:
On 2017-08-31 07:13:55 +, drug said:
Interesting. How is it comparable with iterators and ranges
ideas?
Well, see:
http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-6.html#section-6
Thanks for your post about Rebol, I didn'
On Sunday, 3 September 2017 at 02:08:20 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko
wrote:
On Tuesday, 29 August 2017 at 12:50:08 UTC, Robert M. Münch
wrote:
Maybe of interest:
https://www.think-cell.com/en/career/talks/iterators/#1
I haven't read everything, so not sure if it worth to take a
look.
Iterators has
On Sunday, 3 September 2017 at 03:04:58 UTC, Uknown wrote:
[...]
void foo(ref RCArray!int arr, ref int val) @safe
{
{
auto copy = arr; //arr's (and copy's) reference counts are
both 2
arr = RCArray!int([]); // There is another owner, so arr
// forget
On Sunday, 3 September 2017 at 09:24:03 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko
wrote:
On Sunday, 3 September 2017 at 02:43:51 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
On Sunday, 3 September 2017 at 02:08:20 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko
wrote:
On Tuesday, 29 August 2017 at 12:50:08 UTC, Robert M. Münch
wrote:
Maybe of interest:
http
On Sunday, 3 September 2017 at 08:37:36 UTC, Robert M. Münch
wrote:
On 2017-09-02 21:27:58 +, Moritz Maxeiner said:
Thanks for your post about Rebol, I didn't know it before.
As said, the official Rebol-2 version is a dead-end. Even our
main product is still based on it :-) 15 years old
On Sunday, 3 September 2017 at 06:11:10 UTC, Uknown wrote:
On Sunday, 3 September 2017 at 03:49:21 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
On Sunday, 3 September 2017 at 03:04:58 UTC, Uknown wrote:
[...]
void foo(ref RCArray!int arr, ref int val) @safe
{
{
auto copy = arr; //arr's (and copy's) refere
On Sunday, 3 September 2017 at 14:19:19 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko
wrote:
On Sunday, 3 September 2017 at 12:35:16 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
On Sunday, 3 September 2017 at 09:24:03 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko
wrote:
On Sunday, 3 September 2017 at 02:43:51 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
On Sunday, 3 September
On Sunday, 3 September 2017 at 15:39:58 UTC, Uknown wrote:
On Sunday, 3 September 2017 at 12:59:25 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
[...]
The main issue I see is that pointers/references can change at
runtime, so I don't think a static analysis in the compiler
can cover this in general (which, I th
On Monday, 4 September 2017 at 02:43:48 UTC, Uknown wrote:
On Sunday, 3 September 2017 at 16:55:51 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
On Sunday, 3 September 2017 at 15:39:58 UTC, Uknown wrote:
On Sunday, 3 September 2017 at 12:59:25 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
[...]
The main issue I see is that point
On Monday, 4 September 2017 at 09:15:30 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote:
On 09/04/2017 06:10 AM, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
Indeed, but it also means that - other than null dereferencing
- pointer issues can by made into reference issues my
dereferencing a pointer and passing that into a function that
takes t
On Monday, 4 September 2017 at 10:24:48 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote:
On 09/04/2017 11:47 AM, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
Still, though, this is surprising to me, because this means
taking the address of a parameter passed by reference (which
is in your case is typed as an existing int) can be null. Is
this
On Monday, 4 September 2017 at 17:58:41 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
On Monday, 4 September 2017 at 09:47:12 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
On Monday, 4 September 2017 at 09:15:30 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote:
On 09/04/2017 06:10 AM, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
Indeed, but it also means that - other than null
der
On Tuesday, 5 September 2017 at 18:32:34 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
On Monday, 4 September 2017 at 21:23:50 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
On Monday, 4 September 2017 at 17:58:41 UTC, Johan Engelen
wrote:
(The spec requires crashing on null dereferencing, but this
spec bit is ignored by DMD and L
On Sunday, 10 September 2017 at 01:49:42 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Saturday, 9 September 2017 at 16:53:19 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
version(DLANGSEMVER >= 2.076.0)
{
//include static foreach code.
}
but we can't do conditionals in version blocks, so you'd need
a static if. Alternately, we'd also
On Sunday, 10 September 2017 at 09:31:55 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 9/10/2017 1:40 AM, Yuxuan Shui wrote:
I was experimenting with -betterC and found out that C++
classes doesn't work. Because the resulting object file needs
a symbol "_D14TypeInfo_Class6__vtblZ" which is in druntime. I
suppo
On Sunday, 10 September 2017 at 14:04:20 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
On 10/09/2017 2:19 PM, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
If TypeInfo for extern(C++) classes is removed, couldn't final
extern(C++) classes without base class and which don't
implement any interfaces omit the vtable so that the followin
On Sunday, 10 September 2017 at 15:12:12 UTC, Yuxuan Shui wrote:
On Sunday, 10 September 2017 at 14:42:42 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
On Sunday, 10 September 2017 at 14:04:20 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
On 10/09/2017 2:19 PM, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
If TypeInfo for extern(C++) classes is remove
On Sunday, 10 September 2017 at 15:08:50 UTC, Yuxuan Shui wrote:
By the way, can we dynamic_cast extern(C++) classes in C++?
It doesn't work for me OOTB with dmd 2.075, at least (though I
may be missing something):
--- classes.d ---
import core.memory;
extern(C++) class Parent
{
char id
On Wednesday, 13 September 2017 at 10:20:48 UTC, Thorsten Sommer
wrote:
[...]
Besides the unit tests, the main program is now able to startup
but crashes after a while without any message at all. No stack
trace, no exception, nothing. Obviously, this makes it hard to
debug anything...
[...]
On Monday, 18 September 2017 at 22:32:28 UTC, Dennis Cote wrote:
On Monday, 18 September 2017 at 13:25:55 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
For the record, with the help of std.experimental.checkedint,
the change that fixes the code would be:
malloc(width * height * 4) ==> malloc((checked(width)
On Tuesday, 26 September 2017 at 09:10:41 UTC, James Brister
wrote:
I'm pretty new to D, but from what I've seen there are two
modes of using data across threads: (a) immutable message
passing and the new thread copies the data if it needs to be
modified, (b) shared, assuming the data will be m
On Tuesday, 26 September 2017 at 09:10:41 UTC, James Brister
wrote:
I'm pretty new to D, but from what I've seen there are two
modes of using data across threads: (a) immutable message
passing and the new thread copies the data if it needs to be
modified, (b) shared, assuming the data will be m
On Thursday, 5 October 2017 at 11:35:30 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
Would it be possible to set up a mapping (either formal or
informal) of each typical container (such as array, linked-list
etc) plus element type to a suitable default allocator? And
perhaps add this to the documentation of
`std.exper
On Friday, 6 October 2017 at 21:12:58 UTC, Rion wrote:
I can make a few simple demos and have D use by default 5 to 10
more memory then the exact same C or C++ program. While D does
not actually use it ( its only marked as allocated for the GC
), it does not dispel the notion or feeling of pe
As it has been a while since I've seen an update on DIP 1009 I'd
like to ask what the current status of it is: Has it been closed
for feedback and the second stage (submission to language
authors) been initiated (as [1] requires)?
[1] https://github.com/dlang/DIPs
On Monday, 16 October 2017 at 00:25:32 UTC, codephantom wrote:
D's overview page says "It doesn't come with an overriding
philosophy."
Is philosophy not important?
I'd like to argue, that the problem of focusing on getting the
job done quickly and reliably, does *not* leave behind
maint
On Wednesday, 18 October 2017 at 21:38:41 UTC, Dave Jones wrote:
Poking around in the source code for emplace and I noticed...
T* emplace(T, Args...)(T* chunk, auto ref Args args)
what does the "auto ref" do in this situiation? Cant seem to
find any explanation in the docs.
It means that any
On Thursday, 19 October 2017 at 06:32:10 UTC, Ecstatic Coder
wrote:
[...]
OK actually my initial proposal was this one :
http://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.6425.1503876081.31550.digitalmars-d-b...@puremagic.com
[...]
And the definitive answer about that is of course something
like "Hey man,
On Thursday, 19 October 2017 at 08:17:04 UTC, Ecstatic Coder
wrote:
On Thursday, 19 October 2017 at 07:04:14 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
On Thursday, 19 October 2017 at 06:32:10 UTC, Ecstatic Coder
wrote:
[...]
OK actually my initial proposal was this one :
http://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman
On Thursday, 19 October 2017 at 09:10:04 UTC, Ecstatic Coder
wrote:
For instance, here I say that I don't agree that the "easy" way
to use D is by using FreeBSD instead of Windows.
Here is the answer :
"I remember those events very differently, so here they are for
posterity:
That post of
On Thursday, 16 February 2017 at 21:05:51 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
Hi Guys, due to the old CTFE status thread getting to page 30,
I am now starting a new one.
[...]
Thank you for your continued work on this. I heavily rely on D's
CTFE functionality and I try to read all your updates on it.
On Sunday, 19 February 2017 at 01:52:07 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
On Saturday, 18 February 2017 at 22:40:44 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
On Thursday, 16 February 2017 at 21:05:51 UTC, Stefan Koch
wrote:
Hi Guys, due to the old CTFE status thread getting to page
30, I am now starting a new one.
[
On Wednesday, 22 February 2017 at 05:28:17 UTC, Alex wrote:
[...]
In both gdc and dmd I need to use manually delete this object
or the program is blocked after main. Is by design ?
Yes, it's documented here[1] (others have already replied on the
GC subject, so I won't go into that). If you w
On Thursday, 23 February 2017 at 22:55:05 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
The virtual server that is running code.dlang.org has frozen
about an hour ago and fails to boot further than to the
bootloader. Initial attempts to recover from within Grub have
failed and it's unclear what the root cause is. I
On Friday, 24 February 2017 at 06:59:16 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1139
[...]
This isn't evidence that memory safety is "the future", though.
This is evidence that people do not follow basic engineering
practices (for whatever seemingly
On Friday, 24 February 2017 at 11:22:34 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
[...]
Would be good if someone could have a look. Once this is
merged, anyone can run this on a server using `./dub-registry
--mirror https://code.dlang.org/` and then forward incoming
requests using a reverse proxy to http://12
On Friday, 24 February 2017 at 14:35:44 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
On Friday, 24 February 2017 at 13:38:57 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
This isn't evidence that memory safety is "the future", though.
This is evidence that people do not follow basic engineering
practices (for whatever seemingly va
On Thursday, 2 March 2017 at 22:25:49 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
[...]
http://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-explains-massive-aws-outage-says-employee-error-took-servers-offline-promises-changes/
Yes, which inevitably happens every now and then, because of
human fallability.
But again, the eleph
On Thursday, 2 March 2017 at 23:00:34 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
On Friday, 24 February 2017 at 13:38:57 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
On Friday, 24 February 2017 at 06:59:16 UTC, Jack Stouffer
wrote:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1139
[...]
This isn't evidence th
On Friday, 3 March 2017 at 09:22:31 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2017-03-03 03:11, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
[...]
TL/DR: I wish people would write more native libraries in safe
languages, but who has the time for that?
So we need operating systems and the core libraries to be built
from the g
On Friday, 3 March 2017 at 02:48:46 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
(Abscissa) wrote:
On 03/02/2017 06:00 PM, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
On Friday, 24 February 2017 at 13:38:57 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
On Friday, 24 February 2017 at 06:59:16 UTC, Jack Stouffer
wrote:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-z
On Friday, 3 March 2017 at 16:38:52 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Friday, 3 March 2017 at 02:11:38 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
My major gripe, though, is still that people tend to create
"safe" wrappers around "unsafe" (mostly) C libraries, which
(in the sense of safety) doesn't really help me as a de
On Friday, 3 March 2017 at 16:43:05 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Friday, 24 February 2017 at 19:19:57 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
*Then* you have to provide conclusive (or at the very least
hard to refute) proof that the reason that no one could break
them were the memory safety features; and then, *
On Thursday, 2 March 2017 at 18:45:23 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
On 03/02/2017 07:46 AM, angel wrote:
>> Isn't it :C => :C++ => :D
>>
>> Much better than :C# of course.
>
>
> Your :C++ looks like someone throwing up.
> Well ... maybe this is intentional.
I like it more than "two band aids". :)
Having taken a bit of time to get more familiar with Rust I
wondered if we could have something like Rust's algebraic result
type[1] using Phobos' Algebraic template and started to
experiment:
--- Usage
enum DivisionError
{
ZeroDivisor
}
Result!(int, DivisionError) divide(int dividend, in
On Saturday, 4 March 2017 at 15:35:13 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote:
[...]
my 1 cent: we should stop trying to convert C++ users.
Please, do no push devs to do not do something. There are two
directions: betterC and DRuntime.
I've tried to follow the "betterC" discussion, but so far a
precis
On Sunday, 5 March 2017 at 00:58:44 UTC, Anthony wrote:
[...]
I've learned the basics of D. I read the tutorial book, as I
would call it, and some further tutorials on templates and
other cool things. I just don't feel comfortable investing a
significant effort acquainting myself further with
On Sunday, 5 March 2017 at 11:48:23 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
[...]
I agree. The only potential hope I see would be to port Linux
to a memory safe language.
That would indeed eliminate essentially all of those tasks;
unfortunately porting Linux in itself would require a tremendous
amount o
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