On Monday, 10 November 2014 at 19:59:02 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 11/10/14 7:42 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
To address your question a bit more fully, it seems like this
is
something the range proposal for C++ is better suited for. Then
appending would just be a special case of inserting at a
specific
position. I've got to say, if I had the time I'd implement the
C++
ranges in D. They seem more powerful and easier to use.
What would be their advantages?
The ability to denote a position within a range is an important
facet of some algorithms, such as rotate. For example, see:
https://ericniebler.github.io/std/wg21/D4128.html#iterator-operations-are-primitive
