Noting the recent DServicesAPI wiki hijack, I decided it would be a good idea to check the other D links...  here are the other bad ones I've found:

http://ikagames.com/andy/d/swig-with-dmd.tar.bz2 - 404 error
http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-d-194.html - this just looks
completely worthless
http://www.scratch-ware.net/D/ - 404 error
http://users.tpg.com.au/smackoz/ - 404 error
http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/cgi-local/pragprog?TheDLanguage - "Could not
go to or create /u/web/pragm4/wiki/pragprog: No such file or directory"
http://sourceforge.net/projects/brightd - moved to opend.org
http://www.thedjournal.com/ - has been late on their Spring 2004 issue for 1.5
years...
http://www.codemoon.com/cm/dpage.php - 404 error
http://neuropolis.org/project/lua_from_d/ - 401 authorization required
http://badmama.com.au/%7Eanderson/d - 403 forbidden
http://www.thecodebase.com/elephant.html should be
http://www.thecodebase.com/index.html

I might've missed a few, and I didn't bother to check the Japanese sites because I wouldn't know if they looked right or not! =).

Regards,
James Dunne

James Dunne wrote:
> http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-d-194.html - this just looks
> completely worthless

I beg to differ.

This is a link to a site that demonstrates the wide variety of programing languages available, and how they are used to implement a simple programming problem. It lets one see the differences between the languages, and how they can be used (or abused). The site is well organized and makes it easy to locate your favorite language.

The fact that the D version is very simple (and hence boring) doesn't mean the link it worthless.

Dennis Cote

I thought I'd hack around to see if there's any life left in these links.  As it turns out, I have a correction for one of them:

>http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/cgi-local/pragprog?TheDLanguage - "Could not go to or create /u/web/pragm4/wiki/pragprog: No such file or directory"

The page is now located here:

http://wiki.pragprog.com/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/TheDLanguage


- EricAnderton at yahoo

user@domain.invalid wrote:
> James Dunne wrote:
>> http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-d-194.html - this just looks
>> completely worthless
<snip>
> The fact that the D version is very simple (and hence boring) doesn't mean the link it worthless.

Did you even notice the "More Examples" link?  Maybe if the link in that list could be changed to point to this one as well....

Stewart.

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"Stewart Gordon" <smjg_1998@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:dc5gn9$qa2$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> user@domain.invalid wrote:
>> James Dunne wrote:
>>> http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-d-194.html - this just looks completely worthless
> <snip>
>> The fact that the D version is very simple (and hence boring) doesn't mean the link it worthless.
>
> Did you even notice the "More Examples" link?  Maybe if the link in that list could be changed to point to this one as well....
>
> Stewart.

cute - I added a variation on yours:

import std.stdio;
import std.string;
void main() {
    int bottles = 99;
    char[] plural() {
        return bottles==1 ? "" : "s";
    }
    while (bottles != 0) {
        writefln(bottles," bottle",plural," of beer on the wall,");
        writefln(bottles," bottle",plural," of beer.");
        writefln("Take one down, pass it around,");
        bottles--;
        writefln(bottles," bottle",plural," of beer on the wall.\n");
    }
}

which actually raises a question if a function with no parens is legal or if it's a bug that the above "plural" calls work.

Ben Hinkle wrote:
<snip>
> cute - I added a variation on yours:
> 
> import std.stdio;
> import std.string;
> void main() {
>     int bottles = 99;
>     char[] plural() {
>         return bottles==1 ? "" : "s";
>     }
>     while (bottles != 0) {
>         writefln(bottles," bottle",plural," of beer on the wall,");
>         writefln(bottles," bottle",plural," of beer.");
>         writefln("Take one down, pass it around,");
>         bottles--;
>         writefln(bottles," bottle",plural," of beer on the wall.\n");
>     }
> }
> 
> which actually raises a question if a function with no parens is legal or if it's a bug that the above "plural" calls work. 

AIUI it's supposed to work.  It's a property get.

And even this works:

    writefln = "Take one down, pass it around,";

Stewart.

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"Stewart Gordon" <smjg_1998@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:dc5lbe$u0d$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Ben Hinkle wrote:
> <snip>
>> cute - I added a variation on yours:
>>
>> import std.stdio;
>> import std.string;
>> void main() {
>>     int bottles = 99;
>>     char[] plural() {
>>         return bottles==1 ? "" : "s";
>>     }
>>     while (bottles != 0) {
>>         writefln(bottles," bottle",plural," of beer on the wall,");
>>         writefln(bottles," bottle",plural," of beer.");
>>         writefln("Take one down, pass it around,");
>>         bottles--;
>>         writefln(bottles," bottle",plural," of beer on the wall.\n");
>>     }
>> }
>>
>> which actually raises a question if a function with no parens is legal or if it's a bug that the above "plural" calls work.
>
> AIUI it's supposed to work.  It's a property get.
>
> And even this works:
>
>     writefln = "Take one down, pass it around,";

But why would a top-level function (or a nested function in a top-level function) be considered a property? I'm tempted to say the current behavior is a bug. Properties should only be members of a struct or class (which would include static struct or class properties).

I kind of like it , some languages ( pascal ? ) support calling functions that take no arguments w/o parens .



"Ben Hinkle" <bhinkle@mathworks.com> wrote in message news:dc5m7h$uoj$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>
> "Stewart Gordon" <smjg_1998@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:dc5lbe$u0d$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> > Ben Hinkle wrote:
> > <snip>
> >> cute - I added a variation on yours:
> >>
> >> import std.stdio;
> >> import std.string;
> >> void main() {
> >>     int bottles = 99;
> >>     char[] plural() {
> >>         return bottles==1 ? "" : "s";
> >>     }
> >>     while (bottles != 0) {
> >>         writefln(bottles," bottle",plural," of beer on the wall,");
> >>         writefln(bottles," bottle",plural," of beer.");
> >>         writefln("Take one down, pass it around,");
> >>         bottles--;
> >>         writefln(bottles," bottle",plural," of beer on the wall.\n");
> >>     }
> >> }
> >>
> >> which actually raises a question if a function with no parens is legal
or
> >> if it's a bug that the above "plural" calls work.
> >
> > AIUI it's supposed to work.  It's a property get.
> >
> > And even this works:
> >
> >     writefln = "Take one down, pass it around,";
>
> But why would a top-level function (or a nested function in a top-level function) be considered a property? I'm tempted to say the current
behavior
> is a bug. Properties should only be members of a struct or class (which would include static struct or class properties).
>
>

In article <dc1k6u$rag$1@digitaldaemon.com>, James Dunne says...
>
>Noting the recent DServicesAPI wiki hijack, I decided it would be a good idea to check the other D links...  here are the other bad ones I've found:
>
>http://ikagames.com/andy/d/swig-with-dmd.tar.bz2 - 404 error

I've mentioned this issue on the "feedback and comments" page (http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?DocComments/DLinks). I guess Andy's new page is http://aegisknight.org/~andy/d/, but it might be better to link to http://www.dsource.org/projects/swig4d/.

>http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-d-194.html - this just looks completely worthless

It's not completely worthless.

>http://www.scratch-ware.net/D/ - 404 error

I think this should be http://www.scratch-ware.net/dfiles/

..

>http://sourceforge.net/projects/brightd - moved to opend.org

No kidding. That happened what -- 3 years ago? The opend.org web page is still there, but it appears to be abandoned, too.

>http://www.thedjournal.com/ - has been late on their Spring 2004 issue for 1.5 years...

Yep.

..

>I might've missed a few, and I didn't bother to check the Japanese sites because I wouldn't know if they looked right or not! =).
>
>Regards,
>James Dunne

You brought up some good points.

jcc7

Ben Hinkle wrote:
> "Stewart Gordon" <smjg_1998@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:dc5lbe$u0d$1@digitaldaemon.com...
<snip>
>> AIUI it's supposed to work.  It's a property get.
>>
>> And even this works:
>>
>>     writefln = "Take one down, pass it around,";
> 
> But why would a top-level function (or a nested function in a top-level function) be considered a property? I'm tempted to say the current behavior is a bug. Properties should only be members of a struct or class (which would include static struct or class properties). 

Good question.  The spec indeed refers to the concept as "Class and Struct Properties".  Though it also ought to mention the word "union" in there.

The trouble is that some might think of top-level properties as module properties, and hence as a neat analogue of class/struct/union properties.

Maybe it's a matter of making the spec that bit clearer....

But my slight surprise is that it works on variadic functions.

Stewart.

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