Whither Tango?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Rainer Deyke wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> "iota" is already present with the same semantics in 1.25 languages: C++
>> and Go.
> 
> I've never used or encountered it in C++.  Either it's useless (in which
> case it should be dropped), or its name keeps it from being used.

The story is different; iota was one of few functions that Stepanov 
defined after the standard process had ended. It's present in most 
implementations as an extension. It's not used as often as it could 
because it's more awkward with iterators than with ranges.

>> Anyhow, what's a better name?
> 
> Since I still don't know what it does, I can't answer that question.

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/phobos/std_range.html#iota


Andrei