Bill Baxter wrote:
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu
<seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote:
dsimcha wrote:
== Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org)'s
article
I consider changing a bit D's range model following the better
understanding reflected in this article:
http://erdani.com/publications/on-iteration.html
If you have any thoughts and if you can help with the implementation,
please let us know.
Andrei
Can you detail a little more what you're proposing? I read your article
this
morning, though admittedly I skimmed over some of the examples that looked
like
things I had already been using in my code since ranges were released.
The only
thing I noticed was the save() function for forward ranges. This resolves
the old
wart that input ranges vs. forward ranges are strictly a convention, and I
think
it's a good idea. Other than that, again, please distill what you're
proposing.
One is indeed save(), the other is separation of iteration from access.
These are the only major changes. The second is quite hefty.
BTW, just saw on the announce group that the article was reddited - please
vote up: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a2hv3/
Andrei
I'm not sure why this one is staying so far under the radar. Just
marketing? The title of the previous reddit story "Iterators must
die" got a lot more attention. I'd hate to think it just comes down
to picking deliberately inflammatory titles.
--bb
For one thing I couldn't even see the article on the "Programming" page
after only a few hours after posting. I guess if it doesn't stay there
for a couple of hours after posting to get primed, it never buoys to
attention.
Andrei
