Interesting rant about Scala's issues

Ben Boeckel mathstuf at gmail.com
Fri Apr 4 13:22:17 PDT 2014


On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 13:04:28 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/4/2014 12:05 PM, bearophile wrote:
> >And with "enum precondition" in the succ() function you can do both cases with a
> >single function:
> >
> >array[Index.A.succ] = t;
> >auto i = Index.A;
> >array[i.succ] = t;
> 
> What about i+10? Do you expect the person to write
> i.succ.succ.succ.succ.succ.succ.succ.succ.succ.succ? Sorry, that sux!

You say that, I see a pattern:

Presumably, you'd have something like:

    iter :: Int -> (a -> a) -> a -> a

so you'd have:

    array[iter(j, succ, i)]

But really, I think using an interface (cf Ix referenced elsewhere in
the thread) rather than a concrete type for array indices may have been
better, but I also think that ship has sailed here.

> And what about:
> 
>     int j;
>     array[i+j]

Why would you be adding arbitrary integers to enumerations and expecting
a valid result?

> And forcing the user to use templates to do any logical or arithmetic
> operations on enum operands? It's just awful.

Again, interfaces :) .

--Ben


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