D2 Short list -- opSlice

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:53:51 -0500, Don <nospam at nospam.com> wrote:

> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> We're entering the finale of D2 and I want to keep a short list of  
>> things that must be done and integrated in the release. It is clearly  
>> understood by all of us that there are many things that could and  
>> probably should be done.
>>  1. Currently Walter and Don are diligently fixing the problems marked  
>> on the current manuscript.
>>  2. User-defined operators must be revamped.
>
> Should opIndex and opSlice be merged?
> This would be simpler, and would allow multi-dimensional slicing.
> Probably the simplest way to do this would be to use fixed length arrays  
>   of length 2 for slices.
> So, for example, if the indices are integers, then
> opIndex(int x) { } is the 1-D index, and
> opIndex(int[2] x) {} is a slice from x[0] to x[1],
> which exactly corresponding to the current opSlice(x[0]..x[1]).

I hope you still mean to allow arguments other than int.

Also, how does this work with Andrei's "opBinary" proposal?

-Steve