On Sunday, 29 May 2016 at 09:07:07 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Sunday, May 29, 2016 07:14:12 ParticlePeter via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
Which of the op(Index) operators is responsible for enabling
this
kind of syntax?
Would it be possible to get it work with UFCS or would I have
to
wrap the array?
std.container.array.Array works with foreach via ranges.
foreach(e; myContainer)
{
}
gets lowered to
foreach(e; myContainer[])
{
}
which in turn gets lowered to something like
for(auto r = myContainer[]; !r.empty; r.popFront())
{
auto e = r.front;
}
Ranges do not support indices with foreach, and that's why
you're not able to get the index with foreach and Array.
However, if you use std.range.lockstep, you can wrap a range to
get indices with foreach. e.g.
foreach(i, e; lockstep(myContainer[]))
{
}
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_range.html#.lockstep
- Jonathan M Davis
Thanks, due to your answer I found a way which is even better for
me. I pimped the Array containers with some UFCS functions
anyway, one of them returns the array data as a slice and this
works nicely with that foreach variant as well
auto data( T )( Array!T array ) {
if( array.length == 0 ) return null;
return (&array.front())[ 0..array.length ];
}
// this works now
foreach( i, a; someArrayContainer.data ) { ... }
- PP
