Short list with things to finish for D2

[Denis Koroskin]

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:11:48 +0300, Ellery Newcomer  
<ellery-newcomer at utulsa.edu> wrote:

> On 11/25/2009 10:46 AM, Don wrote:
>> Denis Koroskin wrote:
>>>>> I recall that Visual Basic has UBound function that returns upper
>>>>> bound of a multi-dimensional array:
>>>>> Dim a(100, 5, 4) As Byte
>>>>> UBound(a, 1) -> 100
>>>>> UBound(a, 2) -> 5
>>>>> UBound(a, 3) -> 4
>>>>> Works for single-dimensional arrays, too:
>>>>> Dim b(8) As Byte
>>>>> UBound(b) -> 8
>>
>>> I brought a point that VB has a UBound function that does exactly what
>>> opDollar is supposed to do, so something like opUpperBound() might fit.
>>
>> Finally, a viable alternative to opDollar! I could live with
>> opUpperBound.
>
> <nitpick>
>
> VB's ubound doesn't do exactly the same thing as $; in your code snippet
>
> b(0)
> b(8)
>
> are both valid elements.
>
> Does opUpperBound imply an opLowerBound?
>
> In VB you can declare things like
>
> dim a(20 to 100, 5, 1 to 4) as Byte
>
> LBound(a,1) -> 20
>
> Yep. Visual Basic. Awesome language. *Cough*

Lower bound is always 0 in D, unlike VB where is can take an arbitrary  
value. As such, there is no need for opLowerBound in D.