On Friday, 2 March 2012 at 13:33:17 UTC, Kevin Cox wrote:
After learning and using D for a little while I have discovered
some (in my
opinion) problems with the slices and associative array
built-ins (for now
I will just say slice). The main issue I have is that there is
no way to
pass around something that looks like and acts like a slice.
This is
because there is no class or interface to which slices adhere.
I think
this is a very simple concept and it could be easily remedied
by creating
an Array interface which slices implement. This way you could
create
things like lazy and asynchronously filled arrays.
[...]
In, conclusion. (Tl:Dr) slices and AAs do not allow
polymorphism and
therefore are decreasing the power and flexibility of D.
I hope to hear your opinions,
Kevin.
D is not purely object oriented and must provide primitives the
meet or exceed C.
The style for D code also tends to templates and meta
programming. Ranges[1] fit nicely to this and the idea of slicing.
1. http://dlang.org/phobos/std_range.html
hmm bed time, no time for long explanations.
