Why Strings as Classes?

[bearophile]

Walter Bright:

>I think B should be clearer and more intuitive, it's just that I'm not used to B at all whereas A style has worn a very deep groove in my brain.<

Well, if you use D 2 you write it this way:

value = 0;
foreach (i; 1 .. 11)
    value += i * 2;

Using my libs you can write:

auto value = sum(map((int i){return i * 2;}, range(1, 11)));

But that creates two intermediate lists, so you may want to go all lazy instead:

auto value = sum(xmap((int i){return i * 2;}, xrange(1, 11)));

That's short and fast and uses very little (a constant amount of) memory, but you have to count the open and closed brackets to be sure the expression is correct...
So for me the most clear solution is the Python (lazy) one:

value = sum(i * 2 for i in xrange(1, 11))

That's why I suggested a similar syntax for D too ;-)

Bye,
bearophile