RFC on range design for D2

Derek Parnell derek at nomail.afraid.org
Tue Sep 9 16:58:35 PDT 2008


On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 18:28:34 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

> It means 'left-most element in the range'.  It gets you the first element in 
> the range (i.e. the next element to iterate) without modifying the range.
> 
> I agree that it is very misleading, but I think Andrei is exploring other 
> possibilities (see other threads).

Thanks. I was playing at "devil's advocate" as my real point was that
"left" is way too overloaded with different meanings and is thus not a
suitable choice. We already have this problem a few times in D (eg.
'static')

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Derek
(skype: derek.j.parnell)
Melbourne, Australia
10/09/2008 9:56:09 AM


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