On 10/13/2010 10:25 AM, Juanjo Alvarez wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:39:26 -0400, Jesse Phillips
> <jessekphillips+D@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is indeed good news. I don't do enough with GUIs, but having
> GUI library(s) will be a big requirement in D succeeding Good Luck.
>
> Qt ia not only GUI - it also have network, database and data structures
> classes. Which makes me wonder (@to the Qt guys): do you plan, once the
> data structures bindings are done, to add the ranges interfaces to them?

From my (very limited) experience with ranges, they are a bit awkward when you need to implement recursive traversal of some data structures. Other than that, I think there is no reason we shouldn't try to implement them.

On 10/12/2010 10:09 PM, Gour D. wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:20:47 +0300
>>>>>>> "Max" == Max Samukha<spambox@d-coding.com>  wrote:
>
> Max>  As there is interest in the project, we have decided to proceed.
> Max>  Stay tuned.
>
> Believe it or not, I just placed order for Andrei's book and UK Amazon
> and went to check my email before going to sleep...
>
> Now seeing your message...Whoah!!!
>
> You made my day, or let's say, my night. Dream, sweet dream... :-)
>
> Please, post on the web site how can the project be helped, not only
> by the D experts, but by everyone else as well.
>

I'll try to find time for that on the weekend. Even fixing English grammar, spelling and stylistic errors on the wiki would help :)

>
> Sincerely,
> Gour
>

Max Samukha wrote:
> On 10/12/2010 09:49 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 10/12/10 13:20 CDT, Max Samukha wrote:
>>> As there is interest in the project, we have decided to proceed. Stay
>>> tuned.
>>
>> Awesome news! I think we need to take the hiccup as a warning to be more
>> mindful of compilers and library bugs reported on behalf of QtD.
>>
>> Andrei
> 
> Thanks! I find it reasonable to lower our expectations of the language/tools for a while. I've decided to go on without const and other goodies like the scarcely implemented "alias this".
> 
> For now, the most important for me are the issues with struct lifetime management. For example, destructors should be called on global struct instances. And this one is critical:
> 
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3516

Yes, I know it's an important one.