proper range usage
Alex via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Tue Nov 3 15:08:23 PST 2015
On Tuesday, 3 November 2015 at 22:36:21 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> That's fine. D's slices do that all the time: arr[0..3] and
> arr[3..$] seem to share index 3 but it is not the case: The
> first slice does not use it but the second one does.
Ok... great! This is what I worried about...
> Aside: If 'begin' and 'end' are indexes into an actual array
> (of Ms? I forgot), perhaps you can keep slices instead:
>
> struct P
> {
> int id;
> alias id this;
> M[] ms; // <--
> }
>
> It would be almost as efficient but larger: Altough you use two
> ints (total 8 bytes), a slice is 16 bytes on a 64-bit system: a
> pointer and a size_t.
>
Thats cool! Thank you very much!
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