On 07/05/2010 11:44 AM, Ellery Newcomer wrote:
On 07/05/2010 11:14 AM, Michel Fortin wrote:
Le 2010-07-05 à 1:37, Andrei Alexandrescu a écrit :
- The Seekable idea is good, I was thinking of it for a while. It
expresses a range that is not as cheap for random access as a
random-access range, but also that makes random seeking possible.
What kind of algorithms could use Seekable?
Well, you might want to skip over certain parts of a stream.
like 'drop'
We have popFrontN in std.range that could detect and take advantage of
the existence of a seek() function.
Andrei
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