On Monday, 27 April 2015 at 06:52:11 UTC, Manu wrote:
On 27 April 2015 at 15:58, Vlad Levenfeld via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
Phobos containers already support the first line, and it
would be a
natural extension to make them support the second.
Sure, it's not complicated. It's something I had done in this
other code and
showing for example.
Yeah, see I don't feel making a simple thing like an array into
something more complex by wrapping it in templates is ever a
good
thing to do.
I just think it's a missed opportunity that the compiler doesn't
support any of this in the language.
It would appear at face value to be a great opportunity for
lowering.
Assignment can lower to .copy(), operators can lower to
map!(...)
builtin slicesopSliceAssign (and opSliceOpAssign) understanding
ranges as source operands is a good idea. I might even see if I
can implement it.
Lowering array operations to lazy ranges seems like a huge can of
worms. Not so keen. Lazy array ops are great, but I don't see it
working out as a builtin feature unless it had it's own syntax.
