Phill wrote:

> "John Reimer" <jjreimer@telus.net> wrote in message
> news:c3ns62$1fjp$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> 
>>Matthew,
>>
>>It's really nice to see work being done on a comprehensive DTL.  And
>>what's better is having the right person doing it.
>>
>>Just wanted to say thanks.  There's plenty of work in that task, and I,
>>and I'm sure many others, appreciate the time you are putting into it.
>>And for free? Wow! (Or do we have to promise to buy all your books?!)
>>
>>The thing about working on a library with such important implications
>>is that it takes nerve to put your work out for public critism (or
>>critique as we North Americans like to say ;-D ).  It's great you've got
>>the nerve.  I'm looking forward to seeing it's completion and inclusion
>>in D.
>>
>>Thanks again,
>>
>>John
> 
> 
> Yes, even though he's British he is very talented. :o))

Oh. I thought a Brit accent gave you 20 free IQ points. My mistake :-p

Cheers,
Sigbjørn Lund Olsen

> Yes, even though he's British he is very talented. :o))
> 
> Oh. I thought a Brit accent gave you 20 free IQ points. My mistake :-p
> 
> Cheers,
> Sigbjørn Lund Olsen

True, there appears to be a pattern to it.  It seems that in the movies, they have to get these annoying British accented actors to play the intellectuals. I guess a drawling redneck American just doesn't cut it! :-D

John Reimer wrote:
> True, there appears to be a pattern to it.  It seems that in the movies,
> they have to get these annoying British accented actors to play the
> intellectuals. I guess a drawling redneck American just doesn't cut it! :-D

Interestingly, British made TV science documentaries rely almost exclusively on American scientists for soundbites and convincing sounding explanations of ideas.

The footage is usually accompanied with shots of the scientists driving around California in flashy open top cars. I suspect the producers rather enjoy their trips to the sun :-)

Chris (in very sunny Edinburgh, Scotland).

I am of the opinion that, Americans are used for sound bites because they are better at putting concepts into laymans terms than the English generally are, after all they get more practice...

Additionally it is difficult to get an Englishman to comment on some scientific research if it was undertaken in the US, the UK does not (perhaps cannot) expend the same level of resources on research for research's sake...

Alix (In mildly drizzly York, England)...

Chris Paulson-Ellis wrote:

> John Reimer wrote:
>
>> True, there appears to be a pattern to it.  It seems that in the movies,
>> they have to get these annoying British accented actors to play the
>> intellectuals. I guess a drawling redneck American just doesn't cut it! :-D
>
>
> Interestingly, British made TV science documentaries rely almost exclusively on American scientists for soundbites and convincing sounding explanations of ideas.
>
> The footage is usually accompanied with shots of the scientists driving around California in flashy open top cars. I suspect the producers rather enjoy their trips to the sun :-)
>
> Chris (in very sunny Edinburgh, Scotland).



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           Alix@theDjournal.com

Matthew wrote:

>"Walter" <walter@digitalmars.com> wrote in message
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>  
>
>>"Ben Hinkle" <bhinkle4@juno.com> wrote in message
>>news:sknp50lk1tbov9fhefoiflqin8ihr6bpkd@4ax.com...
>>    
>>
>>>yeah, I shouldn't have said "just because Java/C++ have
>>>one"... It's natural to want to add one, just as it is
>>>natural to want to add a String class of some sort. I really
>>>hope we can keep 90% of D code using dynamic arrays - no
>>>offense to Vector but multiple ways to do very similar
>>>things is a pain in the butt when writing APIs.
>>>      
>>>
>>One point I tried to make in my sdwest talk was I just did not like having
>>arrays, Vectors, and Strings as separate types. They really should be the
>>same thing, and it was a significant design goal of D to make them the
>>    
>>
>same
>  
>
>>(i.e., add sufficient power to arrays).
>>    
>>
>
>It's nice if it can be done. I'm skeptical that it can be done and, even if
>it can, whether that covers all the cases that will arise.
>
>I've plenty of ideas for how to have these things built in. For example, a
>queue could be denoted by
>
>    int [<<] q_of_ints;
>
>Some possibilities for the operations:
>
>    //
>    q_of_ints.is_empty; // is empty?
>    q_of_ints.length;     // number of items in queue
>    q_of_ints.capacity; // current capacity
>
>    // PUSH
>    q_of_ints << 10; // pushes one on
>    q_of_ints ~= 10;
>  
>
I think the ~= is nice for push because its the same as for arrays.  It would be nice if arrays had a append to front as well but then I guess that would be very inefficient.  Parhaps if the memory before is free (I guess would be rare) then D could simply slide the pointer back one.  What the symbol should be?   I can't think of anything that looks good.

:: //is used in some functional languages such as scheme

so parhaps
:=
or
::=

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> Oh. I thought a Brit accent gave you 20 free IQ points. My mistake :-p
>
> Cheers,
> Sigbjørn Lund Olsen

Hey! I spent 20 years in Scottish education, and we were always told it was worth FAR more than that ...

- Kris