Targeting C

[grauzone]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Pelle Månsson wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Yigal Chripun wrote:
>>>> On 23/10/2009 13:02, bearophile wrote:
>>>>> Chris Nicholson-Sauls:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I prefer this (Scala):
>>>>>> list = list ++ (0 to 10)
>>>>>
>>>>> That's quite less readable. Scala sometimes has some unreadable 
>>>>> syntax. Python has taught me how much useful a readable syntax is :-)
>>>>> Designing languages requires to find a balance between several 
>>>>> different and opposed needs.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bye,
>>>>> bearophile
>>>>
>>>> how about this hypothetical syntax:
>>>>
>>>> list ~= [0..10];
>>>
>>> I'm not sure what the type of "list" is supposed to be, but this 
>>> works today for arrays:
>>>
>>> list ~= array(iota(0, 10));
>>>
>>>
>>> Andrei
>> What does iota mean?
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/phobos/std_range.html#iota
This link jumps straight to:

Take!(Sequence!("a.field[0] + n * 
a.field[1]",Tuple!(CommonType!(B,E),S))) iota(B, E, S)(B begin, E end, S 
step);

Wow, please tell me this is a ddoc malfunction. I mean, that thing left 
to iota is supposed to be a type?

(OK, it _is_ a malfunction, but that thing is still supposed to be... a 
type?)