On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 06:19:55PM +0000, Salih Dincer via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Hope, D will go on to the next version,
> the compiler will release up to v10!
> 
> Many happy returns of the (D)ay...🥳
> 
> ```d
>   enum Dlang99 = 4026728633831507;
> 
>   union Magic
>   {
>     long data;
>     char[8] bits;
> 
>     string toString()

In latest dmd git HEAD, you need to annotate this function with `return`, because it escapes a reference to `this`. :-)


>     {
>       return bits;
>     }
>   }
>   auto magic = Magic(Dlang99<<10|'D');
>        magic.writefln!"..::%s::..";
> ```


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On Tuesday, 8 February 2022 at 18:19:55 UTC, Salih Dincer wrote:
> Hope, D will go on to the next version,

It will end-up as a full circle, D started as better replacement for chaotic C++, it was even written in the latter and going neck to neck or even surpassing over the years, until it reached the point of "dog-fooding" and the compiler was rewritten in D, and now its direction is to be like D as a better C, it's incorporating stuffs like importC, and will eventually get rid of the GC, classes, templates... just to become a C's Doppelgänger. :)

Matheus.

On Tuesday, 8 February 2022 at 23:30:44 UTC, matheus wrote:
> On Tuesday, 8 February 2022 at 18:19:55 UTC, Salih Dincer wrote:
>> Hope, D will go on to the next version,
>
> It will end-up as a full circle, D started as better replacement for chaotic C++, it was even written in the latter and going neck to neck or even surpassing over the years, until it reached the point of "dog-fooding" and the compiler was rewritten in D, and now its direction is to be like D as a better C, it's incorporating stuffs like importC, and will eventually get rid of the GC, classes, templates... just to become a C's Doppelgänger. :)
>
> Matheus.

There appears to be a fundamental law of physics, whereby the natural tendency of things is to approach a chaotic state.

C++ already seems well on its way...

With D, the real question is, just how long can we delay this decay ;-)

On Wednesday, 9 February 2022 at 00:03:23 UTC, forkit wrote:
>

do the maths:

-(entropy) = k log (1/D)

On Tuesday, 8 February 2022 at 18:28:21 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:

>
> In latest dmd git HEAD, you need to annotate this function with `return`, because it escapes a reference to `this`. :-)
>
Sorry, I am to stupid, where do you have to "annotate return"?

On Wednesday, 9 February 2022 at 08:38:00 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote:
> On Tuesday, 8 February 2022 at 18:28:21 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
>>
>> In latest dmd git HEAD, you need to annotate this function with `return`, because it escapes a reference to `this`. :-)
>>
> Sorry, I am to stupid, where do you have to "annotate return"?

I believe it would be like this:

```d
ref string toString() return
{
  return bits;
}
```

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is what he's referring to in the spec:

https://dlang.org/spec/function.html#return-ref-parameters