On Tuesday, 1 May 2012 at 00:02:37 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
* how p[0..len] can be seen as an issue instead of as great completely escapes my mind.
I can only offer my own experiences. When I first saw D1 and saw ranges used like that, it looked like pure greek and confused the hell out of me. I mean, what is this ..? How does it work? Only after a lightbulb appearing over my head did I realize .. was just another operator, which didn't exist in C or C++.
Having the example completely broken down into equiv D code that doesn't use the .. makes it's use and glue to the compiler a bit more obvious and fills in the gaps. I mean, how would you take a foreign symbols of << 1->End >> to be? If you squint, it's just a slightly different syntax for the same thing; depending on how you interpret the languages(s).
