On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:53:51 -0500, Don <[email protected]> wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
We're entering the finale of D2 and I want to keep a short list of
things that must be done and integrated in the release. It is clearly
understood by all of us that there are many things that could and
probably should be done.
1. Currently Walter and Don are diligently fixing the problems marked
on the current manuscript.
2. User-defined operators must be revamped.
Should opIndex and opSlice be merged?
This would be simpler, and would allow multi-dimensional slicing.
Probably the simplest way to do this would be to use fixed length arrays
of length 2 for slices.
So, for example, if the indices are integers, then
opIndex(int x) { } is the 1-D index, and
opIndex(int[2] x) {} is a slice from x[0] to x[1],
which exactly corresponding to the current opSlice(x[0]..x[1]).
I hope you still mean to allow arguments other than int.
Also, how does this work with Andrei's "opBinary" proposal?
-Steve
