Last update November 29, 2010

Bruno Medeiros

Bio

I'm a junior Software Engineer based in London, working with Java and Eclipse RCP.

I've been involved with D for quite some time (since 2005). Like many others, I've become interested in D as a modern alternative to C/C++. My first programming crush was game and 3D development, but as I worked on increasingly complex game projects in college, the more I became dissatisfied with C/C++, eventually giving up on it.

Other languages I'm knowledgeable in are Java, C, C++, C#, Javascript, and a bit of Lisp/Scheme. (Of those, the only ones I ever *choose* to program in are: Java, C/C++ and C#. If you note a lack of dynamic languages in the list above, well, that is quite intentional and there is a good reason for that. )

I've been working on an Eclipse-based D IDE: DDT.

I'm using this wike page too keep track of some important issues and discussions I've been involved with, see below (Last Updated: Nov 2010 )

D Design Issues and Problems

"Certain aspects of D are a pathway to many abilities some consider to be... unnatural."

Link to bugs I'm keeping track of: My Bugs at D Bugzilla

Code tracking certain issues: Dee Scratchpad issues

signed-unsigned conversions and crappy C-legacy crap:

news://news.digitalmars.com:119/eve2j4$29ul$1@digitalmars.com (older discussion)

there has been newer discussions

Inheriting Constructors

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/Inheriting_constructors_54088.html

Implicit/Property Function Call (aka omittable parenthesis)

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/Omittable_parens_is_an_evil_73881.html

TODO: consider new issues with @properties as well

Function Overriding hides overloads:

NG:digitalmars.D/56594 (we get no compile-time error, but a runtime HiddenMethodError? instead )

Priority rules for Template specializations and alias parameters: [NOTDISCUSSED]

NG:digitalmars.D.announce/3433

Make null arrays different than empty arrays:

NG:digitalmars.D/55388

private issues:

PrivateIssues

Some minor bool strangeness:

Currently, the following expression evaluates to false:

if( true == 2 ) writeln("THEN"); // The if expression evaluates to false :(

That's bad, a mere obsolescence from C. Either convert ints to bools and not the other way around, or better yet, don't have implicit conversion between numerics and booleans.

Different Cast syntax:

TODO, MAYBE: NG:D/17712

Nested /* */ Comments: (very minor importance) (Mar06)

NG:digitalmars.D/34786 ( archives/34786.html)

Resolved Design issues

Operator/Expression evaluation order

Seems to heading in that direction: news://news.digitalmars.com:119/fr0518$13gf$1@digitalmars.com

Object.oqEquals returns int and not bool: [FIXED at last]

Archives 43848

Static arrays as value types: [FIXED: DMD 2.011 (2008-03)]

NG:digitalmars.D/47720
NG:digitalmars.D/41135 , last point in the post.

For time has imprisoned us In the order of our years In the discipline of our ways