D - Language Design Progress

Benji Smith (22/22) Jun 10 2003 This message is basically a request for Walter to make a "State of the U...

Benji smith (4/26) Jun 13 2003 Walter,
Walter (1/1) Jun 13 2003 I am working on an answer!

BenjiSmith (7/45) Jul 02 2003 Hello again. I'm just checking back again to see about the status of the

Dario (515/515) Jun 15 2003 D's standard functions involving formatted input
Matthew Wilson (15/37) Jul 08 2003 This would be good.

Benji Smith <Benji_member pathlink.com> writes:

This message is basically a request for Walter to make a "State of the Union
Address" regarding the current path of D development.

A recent post asked a question about the stability of the current D language
design. The last few releases of the compiler have consisted primarily of bug
fixes (and linux interoperability) but not new language features. Can we assume
that the language design, as presented in the online documentation, is
essentially complete?

If not what areas of the language don't feel quiiiiiite done yet? And what areas
of the language are definitely nailed down?

I also have a few corollary questions:

1) Separate and apart from language design, how well are you satisfied with the
current DMD implementation of the language? What's still missing from the
compiler? What are the biggest priorities?

2) What areas of the standard library are still in flux? What areas of the
standard library still have the most work to be done?

3) What types of libraries would you most like to see **us** working on (that
aren't destined to end up in the standard library)? Personally, I'm about 70%
finished with an XML parser that I plan to contribute back to the D community.
An XML parser seems like an important library, but I'm curious to know what
**you** would like to see being developed.

Thanks,

--Benji

Jun 10 2003

Benji smith <Benji_member pathlink.com> writes:

Walter,

I'm still curious about these language design/implementation questions...

--Benji


In article <bc4vn6$18s$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Benji Smith says...
This message is basically a request for Walter to make a "State of the Union
Address" regarding the current path of D development.

A recent post asked a question about the stability of the current D language
design. The last few releases of the compiler have consisted primarily of bug
fixes (and linux interoperability) but not new language features. Can we assume
that the language design, as presented in the online documentation, is
essentially complete?

If not what areas of the language don't feel quiiiiiite done yet? And what areas
of the language are definitely nailed down?

I also have a few corollary questions:

1) Separate and apart from language design, how well are you satisfied with the
current DMD implementation of the language? What's still missing from the
compiler? What are the biggest priorities?

2) What areas of the standard library are still in flux? What areas of the
standard library still have the most work to be done?

3) What types of libraries would you most like to see **us** working on (that
aren't destined to end up in the standard library)? Personally, I'm about 70%
finished with an XML parser that I plan to contribute back to the D community.
An XML parser seems like an important library, but I'm curious to know what
**you** would like to see being developed.

Thanks,

--Benji

Jun 13 2003

"Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> writes:

I am working on an answer!

Jun 13 2003

BenjiSmith <BenjiSmith_member pathlink.com> writes:

Hello again. I'm just checking back again to see about the status of the
State-of-the-Union address from Walter.

It's been a few weeks, and I thought it might be good to be a little bit of a
pest. So, no pressure or anything...

--Benji Smith

In article <bcdi78$1q8n$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says...
I am working on an answer!

In article <bcdg5u$1ofq$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Benji smith says...
Walter,

I'm still curious about these language design/implementation questions...

--Benji


In article <bc4vn6$18s$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Benji Smith says...
This message is basically a request for Walter to make a "State of the Union
Address" regarding the current path of D development.

A recent post asked a question about the stability of the current D language
design. The last few releases of the compiler have consisted primarily of bug
fixes (and linux interoperability) but not new language features. Can we assume
that the language design, as presented in the online documentation, is
essentially complete?

If not what areas of the language don't feel quiiiiiite done yet? And what areas
of the language are definitely nailed down?

I also have a few corollary questions:

1) Separate and apart from language design, how well are you satisfied with the
current DMD implementation of the language? What's still missing from the
compiler? What are the biggest priorities?

2) What areas of the standard library are still in flux? What areas of the
standard library still have the most work to be done?

3) What types of libraries would you most like to see **us** working on (that
aren't destined to end up in the standard library)? Personally, I'm about 70%
finished with an XML parser that I plan to contribute back to the D community.
An XML parser seems like an important library, but I'm curious to know what
**you** would like to see being developed.

Thanks,

--Benji

Jul 02 2003

"Dario" <supdar yahoo.com> writes:

D's standard functions involving formatted input
and output are actually built upon the old C printf().
Even Pavel's streams rely on printf (but Pavel wrote
his own scanf to provide a better support of D's
strings).

I don't think that printf() should be D's standard
for formatted output printing. It isn't type safe
and, even if it is useful for debugging purposes,
it's quite a complex and slow function.

IMO, C++'s streams are the tools D needs instead.
Unfortunately Pavel's streams do not format any
output, so file.write(12) will write 12, not "12".

Since I had a lot of free time actually, I tried to
write my own stream classes. They support
(I hope) almost all of the functions of Pavel's
streams, and I provided them of a set of print()
and scan() functions which should deal with
formatted input and output.

Many of them are still incomplete or buggy.
Anyway I'm not an experienced programmer...
I'm a student and writing programs is only a
hobby for me. My streams aren't certainly
going to replace Pavel's ones, since they aren't
really much tested. I'm simply attaching them
to this post to let you read them, try them
and tell me your opinions.

(I also wrote a SocketStream... If I
remember correctly somebody was asking for
something like that. In Windows they seem to
work, but they won't in linux since I don't even
know the function prototypes...)




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Jun 15 2003

"Matthew Wilson" <matthew stlsoft.org> writes:

This would be good.

Pestilentially ...

Matthew

"Benji Smith" <Benji_member pathlink.com> wrote in message
news:bc4vn6$18s$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 This message is basically a request for Walter to make a "State of the

Union
 Address" regarding the current path of D development.

 A recent post asked a question about the stability of the current D

language
 design. The last few releases of the compiler have consisted primarily of

bug
 fixes (and linux interoperability) but not new language features. Can we

assume
 that the language design, as presented in the online documentation, is
 essentially complete?

 If not what areas of the language don't feel quiiiiiite done yet? And what

areas
 of the language are definitely nailed down?

 I also have a few corollary questions:

 1) Separate and apart from language design, how well are you satisfied

with the
 current DMD implementation of the language? What's still missing from the
 compiler? What are the biggest priorities?

 2) What areas of the standard library are still in flux? What areas of the
 standard library still have the most work to be done?

 3) What types of libraries would you most like to see **us** working on

(that
 aren't destined to end up in the standard library)? Personally, I'm about

70%
 finished with an XML parser that I plan to contribute back to the D

community.
 An XML parser seems like an important library, but I'm curious to know

what
 **you** would like to see being developed.

 Thanks,

 --Benji

Jul 08 2003

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