Go and generic programming on reddit, also touches on D

[Timon Gehr]

On 09/18/2011 09:46 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Timon Gehr"<timon.gehr at gmx.ch>  wrote in message
> news:j55h4f$1ia5$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>
>>> The only advantages slices have left
>>> are (a) type syntax, i.e. T[] instead of Slice!T, (b) literal syntax,
>>> i.e. [ 1, 2, 3 ] instead of slice(1, 2, 3), and (c) a couple of stray
>>> language bugs such as '$'.
>>
>> I am thankful for $, as it is a great feature, and it really should be
>> made accessible to user defined types. Either through opDollar or the
>> rewrite a[foo($)] =>  a[foo(a.length)]. What makes it qualify as a stray
>> language bug to you?
>>
>
> He's saying that one of the few advantages slices have left over
> user-defined types is that, for slices, $ actually works. The bug is that it
> doesn't work for user-defined types.

OK, thanks for clarifying.
(I would have called that an implementation bug though)

>
> FWIW, I like the rewrite idea far better than opDollar.
>

Me too. It fits better in the picture of D operator overloading.