On May 15, 10 13:07, Walter Bright wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Fri, 14 May 2010 13:33:57 -0400, Walter Bright
<[email protected]> wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
So how does this look: coll[^..$];
nooooooooo <g>
Do you have specific objections, or does it just look horrendous to
you :) Would another symbol be acceptable?
The problem is D already has a lot of syntax. More syntax just makes the
language more burdensome after a certain point, even if in isolation
it's a good idea.
One particular problem regex has is that few can remember its syntax
unless they use it every day.
Thoughts? other ideas?
I'd just go with accepting the literal 0. Let's see how far that goes
first.
I thought of a counter case:
auto tm = new TreeMap!(int, uint);
tm[-1] = 5;
tm[1] = 6;
What does tm[0..$] mean? What about tm[0]? If it is analogous to
"beginning of collection" then it doesn't make any sense for a
container with a key of numeric type.
Actually any map type where the indexes don't *always* start at zero
are a problem.
I'd question the design of a map type that has the start at something
other than 0.
Why a map type (sorted associative array)'s key must start at zero?
