[brad]

Just wondering what you girls thought about Walter's release schedule. Also wanted to see how the Poll stuff works in phpBB.

[JJR]

Girls? Where?!

[jcc7]

As the most pessimistic voter, I should mention that I hope that D 1.0 is released soon so that D can start taking over the worlD.

My main concerns with the state of D are:

I wonder if the interface design is mature enough (not that I know anything about interfaces). I get the impression that interfaces are going to have revolutionary new functionality in the next release, and I hope it doesn't take too long to stablize.

C-style casts need to be disallowed so that D-style casts can really shine. I know that Walter still uses the C-style casts (including in Phobos), so I'm afraid that he might not be eager to prohibit them, but I feel that they make ambiguity too easy, and they need to be removed.


Code:

i = (int) d; /* C-style */ i = cast(int) d; /* D-style */

[kris]

[Hohums]

[jcc7]

[Hohums]

[trejkaz]

The old syntax is still supported, but you will get deprecation warnings every time you compile your code, until you remove it. Of course you could disable the warning...

I would have preferred to see a syntax like cast(a,b) instead of cast(a)(b) personally, but I don't think I have much chance of getting the more readable version through any sort of approval.
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[trejkaz]

This is true. I didn't pay much attention to the dates on the message.

I guess all the D fanatics are camping on the newsgroup instead of the third-party forum. Still, I prefer forums so much.

I wonder if Walter is using a decimal numbering scheme for his versions. If he is, then we are about a month or two away from final release. If not (i.e. if he goes to version 0.10), then we could be miles off.
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[jcc7]

[Hohums]

I've got behind on my newgroup reading too, I'm 339 messages behind. That's partly because I've ignored most of the bit/bool disscussions. Normally I'm always up to date with the newsgroup. I seem to be getting behind by 100 messages a day. I think the newsgroup has been really active recently.

[aldacron]

I've gotten into the habit of reading the threads I'm interested in, then marking the rest as read. Even so, there are quite a few new messages each day, and I constantly get that nagging feeling that I've skipped something I should have read.

[jcc7]