Revised RFC on range design for D2

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Fawzi Mohamed <fmohamed at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> This is a very nice feature to have.
>> D reaches this with a minimal change to the language:
>> optional parenthesis, and setter functions.
>>
>> ...
>> It does have some limitation (no +=,-=,...) but is very compact, and simple
>> to explain.
> 
> Fortunately this is an orthogonal issue.  This could (and should IMO)
> be fixed independent of the current discussion.

Yah, overloaded ops are due for an overhaul. I'm almost afraid to ask... 
any ideas? :o)

One goal is to fix opIndexAssign and make it work similar to the way it 
works in arrays, e.g. a[b] += c. Indexing into hash tables is a good 
test bed.


Andrei