Steve Yegge's rant on The Next Big Language
BCS
BCS at pathlink.com
Tue Feb 13 09:43:34 PST 2007
Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "BCS" <ao at pathlink.com> wrote in message
> news:ce0a334373d08c91d138f82c904 at news.digitalmars.com...
>
>>To pick at a few:
>>Does any language do interators for user type as language features? You
>>have to write them your self in every language I know of.
>
>
> ....well if you don't write the iterator for your user type, how is the
> language going to know how to iterate over it? When Steve said "iterators
> and generators" as a 'thing to have', I think he meant that they are
> first-class primitives in the language. Having to write a custom iterator
> for a class wouldn't change that fact.
>
Strait up question: how does D fail in this regard? opApply and delegate
based foreach cover a /lot/ of ground.
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