Extended Type Design.

[Sean Kelly]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>>
>>> So you mean foreach(reverse) then?  I do like that!  You're right 
>>> that it is quite D-like.  Too bad you weren't around back when 
>>> foreach_reverse was introduced?   ;-)
>>
>> This actually came up in more general terms:
>>
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/pnews/read.php?server=news.digitalmars.com&group=digitalmars.D.announce&artnum=5015 
>>
>>
>> Perhaps I over-complicated it with the talk of parallelism, but the 
>> idea was still there :-)
> 
> You have it using foreach!(arg) syntax there.  But it's not really a 
> template.  Maybe it could be, and if it were then that would be great 
> syntax for it.  But otherwise it's just unprecendented.  A new special 
> case.

The syntax isn't really important.  I was mostly looking for a way to 
avoid creating a new keyword while supporting multi-directional iteration.


Sean