"Mehrdad" <wfunct...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:oksltzwvkdrrjidcn...@forum.dlang.org... > On Friday, 11 May 2012 at 18:16:02 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: >> On 11-05-2012 20:05, Mehrdad wrote: >>> 6. The 'in' operator returns a pointer (instead of a boolean). Which is >>> fine, except that it's not what you'd expect in any languages other than >>> C/C++. i.e. Non-intuitive >> I've always found it very intuitive actually... and it saves me from >> having to write extra code to do the actual lookup (speed isn't even the >> point here, I just want concise code). > > Yes, I agree, but consider that D users should NOT have to work with > pointers to do something so basic, like testing to see if something is in > an associative array! > > The mere fact that it uses a pointer makes it unintuitive to a large > number of people coming from C#/Java/Python/etc. >
I use 'in' all the time, and I never even think about it returning a pointer. I just do: if(foo in bar) And it just works. So I don't see a particularly big problem here.
