Targeting C

rmcguire rjmcguire at gmail.com
Fri Oct 30 00:05:27 PDT 2009


Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
 
> grauzone wrote:
>> 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?)
> 
> Well what was I supposed to do? It was either define another type Iota, 
> or reuse existing types. I chose to reuse.
> 
> Andrei
> 


Hi Andrei,

Could you tell me why:
Take!(Sequence!("a.field[0] + n * a.field[1]",Tuple!(CommonType!(B,E),S)))

Is a type and not a value?

-Rory




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