handful and interval

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Sun Sep 2 07:51:55 PDT 2012


On 2012-09-02 16:22, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I'd like to add a simple function to std called "handful". It would
> return a small, read-only set of which main facility is membership test:
>
> string a = "class";
> if (a in handful("struct", "class", "union"))
> {
>      ...
> }
>
> Would it be generally useful, and if so what module does it belong to?

I really don't like the name "handful". What would be the difference 
compared to a regular set container? To me it sounds like we should have 
a standard set container in Phobos, std.container.set.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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