Anyone come up with some cool algorithms/templates for D lately?

Lionello Lunesu lio at lunesu.remove.com
Fri Apr 18 16:56:47 PDT 2008


Robert Fraser wrote:
> Michel Fortin wrote:
>> On 2008-04-17 23:32:03 -0400, Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com> 
>> said:
>>
>>> Psst -- don't tell anyone but ...
>>> opDot... coming to a DMD near you soon.
>>
>> opDot? I'd like to hear why it would be named this way instead of 
>> opMember, opFwd, or anything telling what usage the operator is about 
>> instead of what it looks like. There's a reason Walter has choosen 
>> opAdd, opDiv, opSlice, etc. instead of opPlus, opSlash, opBrakets, 
>> etc. and I feel it was a very good idea. Why move away from this?
>>
>> I know there's a precedent (opStar), but I'd like to hear the 
>> rationale behind this choice too (why isn't it called opDeref?).
> 
> Unlike opStar, opDot's name is instantly intuitive. It doesn't fit with 
> the others, but at least it's easy to guess what it does, so it's a step 
> up.

It's not.. My first thought was 'dot-product?'.

L.



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