Proposal for SentinelInputRange

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Wed Feb 27 19:36:55 PST 2013


On 2/27/2013 6:01 PM, Zach the Mystic wrote:
> On Thursday, 28 February 2013 at 01:56:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 2/27/2013 5:53 PM, Zach the Mystic wrote:
>>> What if more than one
>>> value can end the range, EOF, '\0'?
>>
>> I have never seen a need for that.
>
> Do you mean that you've never seen software that uses that, or that you've never
> been convinced that such software couldn't be made simpler?

Pretty much both. For example, often a foreach loop will exit either when it 
runs out of data or some other condition is met. I don't see a need to work both 
of those conditions into the definition of a range.


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