Treating the abusive unsigned syndrome

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

bearophile wrote:
> Nick Sabalausky:
>> Oh, right. For some stupid reason I was forgetting that the param would 
>> always be an array and therefore be eligible for the existing array property 
>> syntax (and that .length always returns a uint).
> 
> From the len() code I have posted you can see there are other places where you want to use len(), in particular to count the number of items that a lazy generator (opApply for now) yields.
> 
> Bye,
> bearophile

I'm rather weary of a short and suggestive name that embodies a linear 
operation. I recall there was a discussion about that a while ago in 
this newsgroup. I'd rather call it linearLength or something that 
suggests it's a best-effort function that may take O(n).

Andrei