biotronic

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by biotronic 6y ago
You're right - thank you for this constructive criticism. The post was originally written as a DIP (D Improvement Proposal), and arguably suffers a little because of that.
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by biotronic 7y ago
Since Cython compiles to C++, it can use C++ templates directly, without the need for creating aliases to the specific instantiations you're gonna use. As far as I understand, you'll still have to write Cython bindings, though:
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by biotronic 7y ago
Walter got a bit confused here - what he's describing is the owner/borrow system he's proposed to compete with Rust. This is unrelated to named parameters.
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by biotronic 7y ago
Both your convenience function and the quotes in the type name can be removed via the use of static opDispatch: struct FlagImpl(string name) { bool value; alias value this; } struct Flag { alias opDispatch(string name) = FlagImp
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by biotronic 9y ago
Humans started out with only one very limited language, then spread out to cover the world, and new languages flourished. As technology progressed and the world became smaller, having fewer languages (or at least, a few common languages) ma
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by biotronic 9y ago
> if your "library" is all templates, it's not a library TIL STL is not a library.
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by biotronic 9y ago
https://dlang.org/spec/cpp_interface.html#cpp-templates You will need to recreate the C++ function definitions in D and mark them extern(C++), but that's about it.
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by biotronic 9y ago
The spec says the GC may move, though the current GC doesn't do that: https://dlang.org/spec/garbage.html#obj_pinning_and_gc There's also been some work on a precise GC for D: https://forum.dlang.o
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by biotronic 12y ago
> Is there a way in D to check at compile time if a type is a POD type ? http://dlang.org/phobos/std_traits#hasElaborateDestructor I believe this is what you're looking for. Mayhap you need to combine it with h
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by biotronic 14y ago
'School in my opinion is an abstraction that isn't necessary anymore. A relic of the industrial age, when information was sparse and communities were largely illiterate.' While this may be true for many people, there are plenty of parents o
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by biotronic 16y ago
Oh, it's much worse than that. Not only would the original be the father, it would also be the same person. Hence, the original could be tried for any and every crime the clone commited.