On Sunday, 19 June 2016 at 10:10:54 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Saturday, June 18, 2016 21:55:31 Joerg Joergonson via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
I wanted to switch to std.container.Array but it doesn't seem
to mimic [] for some odd ball reason.
D's dynamic arrays are really quite weird in that they're sort
of containers and sort of not. So, pretty much nothing is ever
going to act quite like a dynamic array. But when dynamic
arrays are used as ranges, their semantics definitely are not
that of containers. Having a container which is treated as a
range is just begging for trouble, and I would strongly advise
against attempting it. When it comes to containers, ranges are
intended to be a view into a container, just like an iterator
is intended to be a pointer into a container. Neither ranges
are iterators are intended to _be_ containers. Treating a
container as a range is going to get you weird behavior like
foreach removing every element from the container.
- Jonathan M Davis
Thanks for your 2c... but I think I can handle it. I'm a big boy
and I wear big boy pants and I'm not afraid of a few little
scrapes.
If foreach removes all/any of the elements of a container then
something is broke.
