D as a prototyping language (for C/C++ projects)

[David Nadlinger]

On Thursday, 28 February 2013 at 15:51:02 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 2/28/13 10:49 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 2/28/13 10:24 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> That is not my idea of "tap". This is my idea of "tap":
>>>
>>> Object (func) (Object o)
>>> {
>>> func(o);
>>> return o;
>>> }
>>
>> I know. I think my tap is better than your tap.
>
> ... and closer in intent to Ruby's tap as I understand it from 
> reading http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.0/Object.html#method-i-tap

Ruby's tap just applies the passed block to the object it is
called on. I am not quite sure how your range idea comes into
play here?

David