On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 23:20:22 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
(Abscissa) wrote:
On 03/11/2018 11:31 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
C# slices look great.
I wonder if that might open the door for D on the CLR. I know
that was attempted once a long way back, but was deemed
infeasible and abandoned. IIRC, inability to implement slices
was the main blocker.
I doubt that this was the blocker because C# had ArraySegment<T>
since .net framework 2.0 (2006), which is exactly a slice, but
doesn't have the syntactic sugar for it.
The current C# proposal introduces a syntactic sugar similar to D
(using ":" instead of "..") and extends the concept to stack
arrays, because ArraySegment was limited to managed arrays.
As I remember one of the main blockers was in fact the module
system which does not map to the namespace concept in C#
