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digitalmars.D.announce - This Week in D #19: Reggae, ranges, and DConf Wed. Afternoon summary

reply "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jun-07.html

These dconf articles are taking a long time to write, hence the 
lateness again, but here's the rest of Wednesday and some roundup 
of changes from the forum and pull requests.

I was a bit sloppy on the Q&A, I just copy/pasted the notes I 
took live and formatted them a little. In a few cases, I wasn't 
sure who the speaker was, so they are labeled 'idk', and my 
personal shorthand isn't literally what people said, but 
hopefully this will give people an idea of what was discussed 
without having to have been there.

If someone else wants to post to reddit I'd appreciate it, I get 
trouble if I post my own thing too often.


Over this next week, my life is starting to return to normality 
so I plan to write up Thursday and Friday for next week, then we 
have interviews queuing up for the following week! The next few 
weeks should be exciting issues.
Jun 08 2015
next sibling parent reply "Baz" <bb.temp gmx.com> writes:
On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 19:21:10 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jun-07.html

 These dconf articles are taking a long time to write, hence the 
 lateness again, but here's the rest of Wednesday and some 
 roundup of changes from the forum and pull requests.

 I was a bit sloppy on the Q&A, I just copy/pasted the notes I 
 took live and formatted them a little. In a few cases, I wasn't 
 sure who the speaker was, so they are labeled 'idk', and my 
 personal shorthand isn't literally what people said, but 
 hopefully this will give people an idea of what was discussed 
 without having to have been there.

 If someone else wants to post to reddit I'd appreciate it, I 
 get trouble if I post my own thing too often.


 Over this next week, my life is starting to return to normality 
 so I plan to write up Thursday and Friday for next week, then 
 we have interviews queuing up for the following week! The next 
 few weeks should be exciting issues.


http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/393d4d/this_week_in_d_dconf_wed_afternoon_summary_reggae/

By the way the user (bot?) 'qnzc_bot' who usually relays the D 
announces from here to /r/d_language/ seems out of order since a 
big week. Does anyone know what's happen ?
Jun 08 2015
parent "Vladimir Panteleev" <vladimir thecybershadow.net> writes:
On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 23:36:39 UTC, Baz wrote:

 By the way the user (bot?) 'qnzc_bot' who usually relays the D 
 announces from here to /r/d_language/ seems out of order since 
 a big week. Does anyone know what's happen ?


I do.

I blocked it.

It was behaving very poorly and consuming a disproportionate 
amount of resources.

(I didn't actually know this for sure before this post. I blocked 
a poorly behaving robot which I suspected was qnzc_bot, but 
wasn't sure.)

Also, IMHO: I think the bot killed the subreddit. There's hardly 
any discussion there now.
Jun 08 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "Meta" <jared771 gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 19:21:10 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jun-07.html

 These dconf articles are taking a long time to write, hence the 
 lateness again, but here's the rest of Wednesday and some 
 roundup of changes from the forum and pull requests.

 I was a bit sloppy on the Q&A, I just copy/pasted the notes I 
 took live and formatted them a little. In a few cases, I wasn't 
 sure who the speaker was, so they are labeled 'idk', and my 
 personal shorthand isn't literally what people said, but 
 hopefully this will give people an idea of what was discussed 
 without having to have been there.

 If someone else wants to post to reddit I'd appreciate it, I 
 get trouble if I post my own thing too often.


 Over this next week, my life is starting to return to normality 
 so I plan to write up Thursday and Friday for next week, then 
 we have interviews queuing up for the following week! The next 
 few weeks should be exciting issues.


It seems like every year, tuple unpacking comes up. The 
functionality has been done for awhile now, so what is the main 
blocker? It's fine to talk about getting things done and not 
letting good work sit around, but we have multiple DMD pull 
requests over 3 years old, and a large number over 2 years old 
(https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pulls?page=4&q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen).

Andrei muses as to whether tuple unpacking is all we want, or if 
there is some more general and powerful feature. There certainly 
is, and most newer languages have it: pattern matching + 
destructuring. The number of times that it's been mentioned on 
Reddit alone should at least flag it for consideration. Neither 
of these are critical to D, but first-class tuples and pattern 
matching / destructuring are very important quality of life 
issues and a great selling point for D. Even going with what we 
currently have for template type-matching, but for values, would 
be a great step in this direction.
Jun 08 2015
parent "Vlad Levenfeld" <vlevenfeld gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 02:27:26 UTC, Meta wrote:

 first-class tuples and pattern matching / destructuring are 
 very important quality of life issues and a great selling point 
 for D. Even going with what we currently have for template 
 type-matching, but for values, would be a great step in this 
 direction.


+1
Jun 08 2015
prev sibling parent "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 19:21:10 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 These dconf articles are taking a long time to write


I just ran it through wc: this one was 4,000 words! Last week was 
2,000 words about dconf.
Jun 08 2015