On 9/2/12 4:51 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2012-09-02 16:22, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
I'd like to add a simple function to std called "handful". It would
return a small, read-only set of which main facility is membership test:
string a = "class";
if (a in handful("struct", "class", "union"))
{
...
}
Would it be generally useful, and if so what module does it belong to?
I really don't like the name "handful". What would be the difference
compared to a regular set container? To me it sounds like we should have
a standard set container in Phobos, std.container.set.
The difference is in scale and primitives offered. Handful would be
read-only and limited to the size of its initializer. Its representation
would take advantage of that.
Anyhow, I think among would be a simpler solution for this all.
Andrei
