Walter Bright wrote:
> Georg Wrede wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Lutger wrote:
>>>> what the hell...this code can't be human.
>>>
>>> I was replaced by Colossus years ago.
>>
>> Michael A. Jackson wouldn't approve 1175 gotos in 113 files.
> 
> 
> I see I was being too obscure.
> See "Colossus, the Forbin Project" http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/

To clarify: you are *not* 80 feet high and protector of Rhodes?

Stewart Gordon wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Stewart Gordon wrote:
>>> Walter, how often do you update your working copy from the SVN? Obviously less than once every 2 releases.
>>
>> As far as I know, it is current. Everything got checked in.
> 
> So how has the fix for
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2580
> (and probably others) not been included?

The code fix for this is in.  You can see it in dmd/src/compiler/dmd/dmain2.d: rt_init().  I haven't updated the documentation yet though (this last release took me a bit by surprise)--I'll take care of that before the next release.

"renoX" <renosky@free.fr> wrote in message news:49F56A74.4000606@free.fr...
> Nick Sabalausky a écrit :
>> "bearophile" <bearophileHUGS@lycos.com> wrote in message news:gsipn1$1bng$1@digitalmars.com...
>>> Andrei Alexandrescu:
>>>> If it were an error, I wouldn't let it go.
>>> It's an error. It will lead to troubles.
>>>
>>
>> Sometimes it is an error, but there are times when it isn't:
> [cut]
>> Call List In Psuedo-Japanese:
>> For Each Person Where Name="Smith": "SmithSan {LoopIndex}'s DenwaBango:
>> {Phone}"
>> ---------------------
>>
>> So then the report creation code:
>>
>> ---------------------
>> foreach(int i, Person p; people.subset(customReport.whereClause))
>>     writefln(customReport.formatStr, i, p.id, p.first, p.last, p.phone,
>> p.zip);
>> ---------------------
>>
>> That would be very difficult/limiting if every arg had to be used in the format string.
>
> Mmmh, is {LoopIndex} correct? It should be {i} I think and I would argue that this format string should generate an error (something better than a runtime exception would be nice but I'm not sure that this is possible).
>

That was just for illustrative purposes.

>
>> (Incidentally, this example also demonstrates why I consider C#/Tango-style string formatting superior to C/Phobos-style)
>
> I think that named format string are much superior to positional format string as they are easier to read/write..
>

Actually, I was referring to the ability to specify them out-of-order, repeat them, etc. (I didn't realize that Phobos's writef had recently gained that ability). To my knowledge, C#/Tango string formatting don't actually support named strings, only numerical ones. I was just using names for illustrative purposes, and (unclearly) implying that the app would translate those named formats into numerical ones before passing them along to the string output function.

Walter Bright wrote:
> Georg Wrede wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Lutger wrote:
>>>> what the hell...this code can't be human.
>>>
>>> I was replaced by Colossus years ago.
>>
>> Michael A. Jackson wouldn't approve 1175 gotos in 113 files.
> 
> I see I was being too obscure.
> See "Colossus, the Forbin Project" http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/

Heh, by an incredible coincidence, it aired here a couple of weeks ago. Maybe that's why I felt the reference too obvious to comment on.

I liked the end. Not what I expected. And more thought provoking like this. It also gave some new depth about understanding the Terminator.

Georg Wrede wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> I see I was being too obscure.
>> See "Colossus, the Forbin Project" http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/
> 
> Heh, by an incredible coincidence, it aired here a couple of weeks ago. Maybe that's why I felt the reference too obvious to comment on.

I think it is an overlooked classic.