On Sunday, 14 February 2016 at 13:16:58 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Sunday, 14 February 2016 at 10:59:41 UTC, w0rp wrote:
Maybe I'm missing something, but can't the length just be
size_t? I doubt there is much you could do with code which
generates finite sequences larger than the addressable memory
space, aside from very abstract and inefficient mathematical
calculations which skip over elements. iota would probably
work better with size_t in most cases, and if you really well
and truly need something which generates finite sequences of
integers larger than the addressable memory space, you can
always just write your own version.
Yeah. It would be easy enough to just make iota size_t and then
have it check the actual length of the range when it's called
to make sure that it's not larger than will fit in size_t (and
presumably throw a RangeError if the number of elements is too
large). Anyone who really wants to have a range with more than
size_t.max elements can write their own thing. It's not like
it's going to work nicely with other ranges anyway - at least
not as long as it defines length.
- Jonathan M Davis
+1
