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by dfawcus 2y ago
One is able to chain calls in C via: x()->g()->f(); At least one person at Bell Labs historically used that scheme for some graphics program. All it requires is that the function returns a pointer to a struct which itself con
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by dfawcus 2y ago
Also from my experience, 2G feature phones have better battery characteristics, longer standby time. I've a 4G feature phone, and even when only its 2G modem is enabled, it doesn't last as long as the prior 2G phone did. When the
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by dfawcus 2y ago
There is still a picture of the front of the document available: https://archive.ph/uXyEf
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by dfawcus 2y ago
I've been playing with it hacking a compiler written in C++ to be sort of transliterated to D. Just to see if it then makes the compiler easier to read, while not worrying about the performance yet. So far in converting the lexer it d
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by dfawcus 2y ago
Designated initialisers and compound literals, sure they have caught on, one just has to know where to look: https://github.com/danos/vyatta-dataplane/blob/master/src/npf/config/gpc_hw
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by dfawcus 2y ago
Playing with D, while reading up on Odin and the various Cyclone papers.
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by dfawcus 2y ago
Except surely the UK hasn't? What they've reportedly demanded is that systems be changed, so that later a demand for data may be be effective. As to if any hypothetical later demand for later would contravene the agreement would
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by dfawcus 2y ago
It looks like those versions will continue for some time, at least until Sep 2025 on Win 7-8.1 and macOS 10.12-10.14, given the recent announcement: https://www.ghacks.net/2025/02/19/mozilla-extends-firef
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by dfawcus 2y ago
Hmm - it still blocks me when my browser reports its native string of: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0 however if I override it to the following, the site lets be through:
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by dfawcus 2y ago
Oh dear - bitten by his "scraping" protection. As his site no longer allows me to view with Firefox-115 ESR, it being deemed as "too old" despite still being a supported release.
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by dfawcus 2y ago
We had coal fires, and no central heating when I was a young child. So we had two (steel) dustbins, and the dust-men would empty them. I can't remember if the bin wagon had a different name, I shall have to ask my parents.
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by dfawcus 2y ago
Bin wagon.
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by dfawcus 2y ago
It is the nature of the UK Parliamentary system, that when the party in power has a large majority, it is essentially an elective dictatorship. Then 5 years later we may get a different dictator. This is a well known issue with the system.
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by dfawcus 2y ago
The impression I get from simply reading these various discussions, is that some folks are not convinced that the pain from accepting Rust is worth the gain. Possibly also that a significant portion of the suggested gain may be achievable v
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by dfawcus 2y ago
Only if one buys such a "goodybag". My father doesn't and so pays PAYG rates when he uses his. Which probably makes sense for him, given his infrequent use pattern.
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by dfawcus 2y ago
> Similar things you'd do with a function without a name - work directly with the data at hand, without having to do the extra round trip to the attic to declare its name or shape. Note that in Alef, tuples are essentially a dual fo
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by dfawcus 2y ago
Sorry, but your response seems to be about consistency, or "purity" at some level. While what Go has may be inconsistent, what functional impact does that have? I can't see a need for 'de-structuring' as such, absen
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by dfawcus 2y ago
Re tuples, I guess you mean the multiple return values, and this assignment form: https://go.dev/play/p/vxm6lV7JS4z However how would real first class tuples be an improvement in Go? Alef had them, and allowed var
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by dfawcus 2y ago
PAYG plans do.
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by dfawcus 2y ago
Except Contexts provide a cancellation mechanism which can be used outwith of a specific dynamic call graph. The documented semantics of the facility (and the implementation) seemed perfect for destroying a dynamic graph of CSP elements, wh
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by dfawcus 2y ago
What do you mean by "won't thread them correctly"? The specific use case I had was where the context represented the lifetime of a (shared) TCP connection. I then wanted to use its cancellation to drive the destruction of var
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by dfawcus 2y ago
It does seem an unnecessarily limiting convention. What will go wrong if one stores a Context in a struct? I've done so for a specific use case, and did not notice any issues.
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by dfawcus 2y ago
mind, it is also possible that they took that from Algol 68, and 'adjusted it': $ a68g --strict -e '(INT a = 1 000; print((a,newline)) )' +1000 As Algol 68 allows spaces within numbers, as well as within i
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by dfawcus 2y ago
Except ANSI did very little in terms of changing/enhancing the language. It stayed largely as it had been since Nov '78: Nov 78 Memo: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/cchanges.pdf About all th
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by dfawcus 2y ago
It one is going to play with obsolete languages, then wouldn't Algol 68 be a better pick? At least it has types beyond "cell". Or is the idea that BCPL is quite close to the bare metal? Algol 68 Genie: https://jmv
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by dfawcus 2y ago
Metaware High-C version 1.2 (Nov 1985) had underscores in floating point and integer literals. Possibly it had that even earlier. Possibly also taken from Ada, as other text in that section of the manual reference Ada. See A.3 pg 169 (and
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by dfawcus 2y ago
C (K&R) : 1972 => 53 years ago C++ : 1985 => 40 years ago D : 2001 => 23 years ago Also, https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html So D is 30 years younger than C, so
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by dfawcus 2y ago
Note that GCC does (sometimes) detect the misuse of the "int a[static 3]" case, but maybe that is only when the length is a compile time constant; and possibly only with char arrays. $ make texe cc -g -O2 -std=c11 -Wall -Wex
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by dfawcus 2y ago
clang and gcc now warn of that. $ gcc-12 -g -O2 -std=c11 -Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic -Werror c-error.c c-error.c:2:10: error: return type of ‘main’ is not ‘int’ [-Werror=main] 2 | void main() | ^~~~ c-error.c
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by dfawcus 2y ago
I'd have to argue the function typedefs are not useless, I've come across two uses. The obvious one is rather than a function pointer typedef, such the subsequent use in a struct is obviously a pointer. Which helps when others are

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