http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4405
Summary: all function - returns whether predicate is true for all elements in a range Product: D Version: D2 Platform: Other OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P2 Component: Phobos AssignedTo: nob...@puremagic.com ReportedBy: jmdavisp...@gmail.com --- Comment #0 from Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisp...@gmail.com> 2010-06-28 20:19:42 PDT --- Two very useful functions to have would what could be called any() and all(). They are, in a sense the || and && of a predicate against all elements a range. any() would take a predicate and a range and return whether any element in that range satisfied the predicate, shortcutting if it found one. all() would take a predicate and a range and return whether all elements in that range satisfied the predicate, shortcutting if it found one which didn't. std.algorithm currently has canFind(), which is effectively any. One of its versions takes a predicate and a range and returns whether any of the elements satisfies the predicate. So, we basically have any() albeit by a different name and with the original intent of returning whether a particular element could be found in a range. Its definition is flexible enough that it does the job. However, we have no function which would be all(). You can get similar behavior with various functions, but none of them take a predicate and return whether all elements of a range satisfy the predicate. The closest at present would be to use the negation of the predicate with canFind(). But not only is that like having to use || with ! to implement && (which while possible is rather annoying and often forces you to make your logic less clear), but it's likely to be less efficient to since you may have to wrap one predicate in another to get its negation. There may be other implementation details which affect efficiency as well, though I can't think of any off the top of my head at the moment. In any case, it would be highly desirable if an all() function were added to std.algorithm. -- Configure issuemail: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: -------