On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 02:27:57 UTC, Solomon E wrote:
On Saturday, 23 January 2016 at 07:57:55 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
auto collapse(R)(R r)
if (isArray!R) {
return r.joiner.collapse.joiner;
}
auto collapse(R)(R r)
if (!isArray!R) {
return r;
}
Ali, that code only passed the one test it had for collapsing a
three level array. It wouldn't collapse arrays of other numbers
of levels. It wasn't recursing as appeared to be intended.
Is the following code better D? (I don't know because I'm still
learning D, so I'd like to be corrected if the comments in my
code are inaccurate or misleading.)
(See https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12062 for where I
got the idea that `flatten` should be defined to mutate by
reference. A comment there suggests to use
std.experimental.ndslice and byElement for that, but ndlslice
doesn't seem to be in the library anymore.)
I will give this a try later.
Ruby's Array class includes this sort method for flattening and
for me it was surprisingly useful, for instance when it was
necessary to write the array to file.
I will also take a look at ndslice and see how intuitive its
approach for achieving this would be.
