Revised RFC on range design for D2

[Bruno Medeiros]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 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

Agh, this was a clear and good opportunity to fork a new thread.

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