Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

Re:Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation by rdtsc on Friday August 28, 2015 @09:58AM (#10135415)

Of course if you don't know who Alexandrescu is, here is a C++ fantasy map that was circulated a few years back (it is funnier if know C++) and well, Alexandrescu has his own castle there:

http://goldns.ru/cppmap-2012.png

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Re:Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation by fauigerzigerk on Friday August 28, 2015 @10:28AM (#10135588)

I heard that there's also a diamond mine somewhere in the multiple inheritance forest, but all pointers to its exact location seem to be off a bit :)

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Re:Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation by rdtsc on Friday August 28, 2015 @11:27AM (#10135956)

Indeed, look West, there is a diamond mine. By the Virtual Inheritance Mountains, which are North of the Inheritance Forest. The location makes sense, because virtual inheritance helps solve the "diamond" problem. (I am not a good C++ programmer, so if this is wrong, please correct me).

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Re:Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation by carth_baywood on Friday August 28, 2015 @07:03PM (#10138269)

That's for explaining the joke so laboriously and with so little wit

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Re:Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation by nice_byte on Friday August 28, 2015 @01:03PM (#10136613)

"concepts shipwreck"

it makes me sad :(

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Re:Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation by chubot on Friday August 28, 2015 @04:46PM (#10137764)

Just curious, what happened with concepts? I have a moderate amount of C++ knowledge, and have heard of concepts, but nothing more.

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Re:Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation by nice_byte on Friday August 28, 2015 @06:41PM (#10138215)

They couldn't make it into the official C++11 standard. Seems like the standards committee still wants to add them, but it's not clear when that would happen.

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Re:Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation by detrino on Friday August 28, 2015 @09:56PM (#10138708)

Concepts lite has already passed the vote for for C++17.

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Re:Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation by nice_byte on Friday August 28, 2015 @11:50PM (#10138996)

Awesome, I didn't know that!

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Re:Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation by sad on Friday August 28, 2015 @12:41PM (#10136466)

And just over there in the ocean is his ship, Loki.

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Re:Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation by jordigh on Friday August 28, 2015 @10:28AM (#10135582)

"STL" inside the holy standard lands! I protest! The standard recognises no such thing as "STL"! It is simply the standard libary. The STL is the library that <strike>Alexandrescu</strike> Stepanov wrote that precedes the C++ stdlib.

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Re:Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation by Gupie on Friday August 28, 2015 @10:37AM (#10135634)

Alexander Stepanov wrote it.

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Re:Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation by sclangdon on Friday August 28, 2015 @11:11AM (#10135831)

It's location has meaning - it's right on the edge of the known lands.

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