Rust-like collect in D

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wed, 2016-10-12 at 21:15 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-
d-learn wrote:
> On 10/06/2016 10:32 AM, Nordlöw wrote:
> > Is there a concept in D similar to Rust's `collect`:
> > 
> > https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/iter/trait.Iterator.html#method.colle
> > ct
> 
> That's "make" in std.container. Is that what you're looking for? As
> an 
> aside, "collect" is an awful abbreviation of "collection". -- Andrei

I's say collect has an interesting history. Smalltalk used collect for
what other called map. Various languages, including Groovy, continued
this tradition. Now Rust and Java are using collect as a verb-like
form, just as D uses make. collection would be wrong here.

-- 
Russel.
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