On Wednesday, 19 December 2012 at 12:27:32 UTC, Rafael wrote:
1) It is possible to implement multiindex access using opIndex*
methods, moreover this is the simplest way to multiindex access
realization. So, we have [i, j, k] notation. Next step after it
- slices implementation and it looks logical to save the same
notation for it: [i1..i2, j1..j2, k]. But it impossible, if I
understand correctly.
2) On the other hand. Syntax via [i][j] leads to some overhead:
first index access [i] must return some light accessor object
(like range (or iterator)) which supports the index access
operation. But using this approach it is possible to implement
multidimensional slices. And this means, that opIndex* methods
with multiindex are not needed.
Well if you are looking at operator overloading you can overload
opSlice as described here
http://dlang.org/operatoroverloading.html#Slice however i am not
sure if you can defined multiple slices delimited by commas in
the same [] block but it is worth a try.
