Bill Baxter wrote:
I think what Jerome is getting at is that we could be getting more
mileage out of the xpr1..xpr2 syntax. It would be useful syntax for
more than just integral, dense ranges in foreach and slices. The
equivalents I've used or seen in Ruby, Python and Matlab are more
versatile than D's. Perhaps that can't be translated in any useful
way to a static language like D, I dunno. But it leaves one with the
feeling that D's slice literals are underpowered and that the case
range thing is just plugging a hole in a dilapidated boat rather than
building us a nice new sleek yacht.
How are python's so much better?
1. python's ranges are exclusive of the endpoint
2. python doesn't have a switch statement, so case ranges being better
in python makes no sense
