Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:50:34 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu
<seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote:
What does iota mean?
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/phobos/std_range.html#iota
Irony minded. I'm destroyed.
Hm... this is slightly off topic, but that function signature is
absolutely horrendous (in fact, I thought you linked to the wrong
place at first). Isn't there any way to avoid putting half the type
construction as the return value? Do all range-creating functions
suffer from this problem? Maybe it's just a ddoc problem.
I wanted to use auto, but ddoc cannot document functions with auto returns.
Is it too hard to fix that? I think ddoc works before the semantic pass
so the return type is null by then, but it isn't very hard to see a "if
type.next != null" in the source code...
I say it because I also find horrendous the signature. And what's more,
it's hard to find the word "iota" there.
I also think "iota" is an awful name for that function.
