On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 06:49:56 -0400, monarch_dodra <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Tuesday, 12 March 2013 at 10:01:38 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
I want to resurrect that thread. Can someone explains the benefices of
isInfinite ? I fail to see how it really benefit the code.
The advantage of "enum empty = false" is that algorithms gain a great
performance boost by optimizing out any "if (r.empty)". This can be
exploited for things like take, or anything that iterates as a matter of
fact. I don't think anybody will argue that this is a bad approach.
Wouldn't it automatically be optimized out? I mean if r.empty is an enum,
it's like saying if(false) I would think even with optimizations off,
this might be done.
Not that I'm questioning the value of isInfinite (I'm neutral on it), but
this is not a benefit.
-Steve
