Am 21.07.2014 20:09, schrieb H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn:
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 06:36:04PM +0200, Daniel Gibson via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
[...]
However, having something like staticIota in the stdlib would probably
make sense.
[...]
It's already in std.typecons.
(Admittedly, that's not exactly the most obvious place to look for it...)
T
static.typecons is actually where I would have expected it, as it
constructs a tuple.. but it isn't mentioned on
http://dlang.org/library/std/typecons.html or
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_typecons.html
and at least in my /usr/include/dmd/phobos/std/typecons.d (2.065) it's
private:
private template staticIota(int beg, int end)
{ ... }
And it seems like I can't use it.
Anyway, good to know that it exists and hopefully future versions of D2
make that function public, so thanks for showing up another alternative
to solve my problem :-)
BTW: The name "Iota" is horrible.. it doesn't describe at all what the
function does.
And "But C++11 STL has a function of the same name that does the same
thing" or "some obscure programming language from the 60ies (APL) used
the Greek iota letter to do this" is no excuse, one shouldn't expect
potential D users to know about that (even after using C++ for years I
never encountered std::iota..)
Maybe "Numerate" or something like that would be more descriptive..
Cheers,
Daniel
