byKey and byValue: properties or methods?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-01-18 14:59, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 1/18/12 7:20 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> I think the compiler should not be in the business of generating methods
>> or properties that could be trivially handled by the library.
>
> Yes. I'm fighting Walter tooth and nail over that, with pale success.
>
>> The only array-specific properties of an array that the compiler should
>> worry about are ptr and length. Everything else should be a library
>> function.
>
> Even ptr and length should be in the library. The slice structure should
> be defined in object.d. The only business the compiler has is to lower
> the T[] type syntax and the [ ... ] literal syntax to .object.Slice!T
> and .object.slice(...) form, and to make sure that typeof(T[]) is not
> struct (although factually it is).
>
>
> Andrei
>

But a library can't handle common properties like "mangleof" and "stringof"?

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/Jacob Carlborg