I am a grad school acquaintance of Andrei's. I contacted him a little while ago asking for feedback on a project that I'm working on. He suggested I post it to the D list. So here I am.

The link below is to a draft that is currently under review for PLDI 2017. Please do not share it in a way that might get to a committee member for that conference.

I am happy to hear any feedback you have, whether it's critical, enthusiastic or indifferent.

http://charcoal-lang.org/charcoal_intro_draft.pdf

Thanks,
Ben

ben.ylvisaker@coloradocollege.edu

On 04/12/2016 5:54 AM, Benjamin Ylvisaker wrote:
> I am a grad school acquaintance of Andrei's. I contacted him a little
> while ago asking for feedback on a project that I'm working on. He
> suggested I post it to the D list. So here I am.
>
> The link below is to a draft that is currently under review for PLDI
> 2017. Please do not share it in a way that might get to a committee
> member for that conference.
>
> I am happy to hear any feedback you have, whether it's critical,
> enthusiastic or indifferent.
>
> http://charcoal-lang.org/charcoal_intro_draft.pdf
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
> ben.ylvisaker@coloradocollege.edu
>

I would suggest if your ABI requires it to move the callback from last argument to either first or second.
Not that I read your paper in much depth.

You would get problems with e.g. c's var args with it last.

On Sunday, 4 December 2016 at 01:18:45 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
> On 04/12/2016 5:54 AM, Benjamin Ylvisaker wrote:
>> I am a grad school acquaintance of Andrei's. I contacted him a little
>> while ago asking for feedback on a project that I'm working on. He
>> suggested I post it to the D list. So here I am.
>>
>> The link below is to a draft that is currently under review for PLDI
>> 2017. Please do not share it in a way that might get to a committee
>> member for that conference.
>>
>> I am happy to hear any feedback you have, whether it's critical,
>> enthusiastic or indifferent.
>>
>> http://charcoal-lang.org/charcoal_intro_draft.pdf
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ben
>>
>> ben.ylvisaker@coloradocollege.edu
>>
>
> I would suggest if your ABI requires it to move the callback from last argument to either first or second.
> Not that I read your paper in much depth.
>
> You would get problems with e.g. c's var args with it last.

Thanks for the reply. I don't think your comment is applicable to my current implementation. There are no implicit callbacks. The only game I play with arguments is adding an extra one to function pointers in my dialect (and it is the first argument). So if you want to pass a pointer to a dialect function to a plain C function, there has to be some careful handling of that.

Ben