Re: Reversing a string

2019-01-12 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 11 January 2019 at 19:16:05 UTC, AlCaponeJr wrote: On Friday, 11 January 2019 at 11:15:05 UTC, Mike James wrote: Check out the origin :-) https://forum.dlang.org/thread/hl8345$2b1q$1...@digitalmars.com?page=1 Indeed a terrible name, please don't tell me this was chosen by vote.

Re: Reversing a string

2019-01-11 Thread AlCaponeJr via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 11 January 2019 at 11:15:05 UTC, Mike James wrote: Check out the origin :-) https://forum.dlang.org/thread/hl8345$2b1q$1...@digitalmars.com?page=1 Indeed a terrible name, please don't tell me this was chosen by vote. By the way currently is there any vote system for naming these

Re: Reversing a string

2019-01-11 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 1/11/19 1:25 PM, 0xEAB wrote: On Friday, 11 January 2019 at 13:51:04 UTC, JN wrote: On Friday, 11 January 2019 at 11:15:05 UTC, Mike James wrote: Check out the origin :-) https://forum.dlang.org/thread/hl8345$2b1q$1...@digitalmars.com?page=1 I guess something like iterReverse, reverseIte

Re: Reversing a string

2019-01-11 Thread 0xEAB via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 11 January 2019 at 13:51:04 UTC, JN wrote: On Friday, 11 January 2019 at 11:15:05 UTC, Mike James wrote: Check out the origin :-) https://forum.dlang.org/thread/hl8345$2b1q$1...@digitalmars.com?page=1 I guess something like iterReverse, reverseIter, backIterator would be too simp

Re: Reversing a string

2019-01-11 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 11 January 2019 at 13:51:04 UTC, JN wrote: I guess something like iterReverse, reverseIter, backIterator would be too simple... or foreach_reverse, which never actually was removed! lol

Re: Reversing a string

2019-01-11 Thread JN via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 11 January 2019 at 11:15:05 UTC, Mike James wrote: Check out the origin :-) https://forum.dlang.org/thread/hl8345$2b1q$1...@digitalmars.com?page=1 I guess something like iterReverse, reverseIter, backIterator would be too simple...

Re: Reversing a string

2019-01-11 Thread AndreasDavour via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 11 January 2019 at 11:15:05 UTC, Mike James wrote: On Friday, 11 January 2019 at 09:41:30 UTC, bauss wrote: On Friday, 11 January 2019 at 08:25:41 UTC, Seb wrote: On Friday, 11 January 2019 at 08:05:39 UTC, AndreasDavour wrote: Hi. I've just started to learn some D, so maybe this q

Re: Reversing a string

2019-01-11 Thread bauss via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 11 January 2019 at 11:15:05 UTC, Mike James wrote: On Friday, 11 January 2019 at 09:41:30 UTC, bauss wrote: On Friday, 11 January 2019 at 08:25:41 UTC, Seb wrote: On Friday, 11 January 2019 at 08:05:39 UTC, AndreasDavour wrote: Hi. I've just started to learn some D, so maybe this q

Re: Reversing a string

2019-01-11 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 11 January 2019 at 09:41:30 UTC, bauss wrote: On Friday, 11 January 2019 at 08:25:41 UTC, Seb wrote: On Friday, 11 January 2019 at 08:05:39 UTC, AndreasDavour wrote: Hi. I've just started to learn some D, so maybe this question is extremely stupid, but please bear with me. [...]

Re: Reversing a string

2019-01-11 Thread AndreasDavour via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 11 January 2019 at 09:41:30 UTC, bauss wrote: On Friday, 11 January 2019 at 08:25:41 UTC, Seb wrote: On Friday, 11 January 2019 at 08:05:39 UTC, AndreasDavour wrote: Hi. I've just started to learn some D, so maybe this question is extremely stupid, but please bear with me. [...]

Re: Reversing a string

2019-01-11 Thread bauss via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 11 January 2019 at 08:25:41 UTC, Seb wrote: On Friday, 11 January 2019 at 08:05:39 UTC, AndreasDavour wrote: Hi. I've just started to learn some D, so maybe this question is extremely stupid, but please bear with me. [...] Use .retro - it is also lazy and won't allocate: https:

Re: Reversing a string

2019-01-11 Thread AndreasDavour via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 11 January 2019 at 08:45:12 UTC, JN wrote: On Friday, 11 January 2019 at 08:15:01 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Note the immutable, it means you cannot modify individual values. Which is a problem for reverse because it modifies in place. The error message is kind of unfortunate.

Re: Reversing a string

2019-01-11 Thread JN via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 11 January 2019 at 08:15:01 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Note the immutable, it means you cannot modify individual values. Which is a problem for reverse because it modifies in place. The error message is kind of unfortunate. This is a simple usecase and the error message is unde

Re: Reversing a string

2019-01-11 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 11 January 2019 at 08:05:39 UTC, AndreasDavour wrote: Hi. I've just started to learn some D, so maybe this question is extremely stupid, but please bear with me. [...] Use .retro - it is also lazy and won't allocate: https://run.dlang.io/is/A6bjrC

Re: Reversing a string

2019-01-11 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
So strings in D are Unicode. This is both a great thing and a horrible thing. To reverse a Unicode string correctly you need to take into account BiDi and graphemes, in other words it gets rather complex. However I suspect that this isn't what you want. Now a (w/d)string is defined as: alias

Reversing a string

2019-01-11 Thread AndreasDavour via Digitalmars-d-learn
Hi. I've just started to learn some D, so maybe this question is extremely stupid, but please bear with me. I have been trying to reverse a string, and through some googling found the std.algorithm.mutation.reverse method. But, when I try to use it I get some very verbose errors that just ma