D Ranges

[Chris]

On Friday, 13 September 2013 at 17:35:21 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
> On Friday, 13 September 2013 at 14:39:29 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> On Friday, 13 September 2013 at 13:42:07 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>>> On Friday, 13 September 2013 at 13:31:18 UTC, bearophile 
>>> wrote:
>>>> In most cases today you are free to omit those ():
>>>>
>>>> foreach (bySentence.byWord.byWhateverFormat.byReformatAgain) 
>>>> {
>>>>
>>>> Bye,
>>>> bearophile
>>>
>>> ...but you shouldn't if you care about readability (leave at 
>>> least the last pair in the line) :P
>>
>> It also helps other people (and me) to realize that it 
>> actually _does_ something and doesn't just return a value. 
>> Often (not always of course), if you omit the brackets it 
>> returns a value without doing anything. But that's just a 
>> personal convention I might abandon further down the road.
>
> Since most ranges in std.algorithm are lazy they are usually 
> not doing anything but setting a few members and returning a 
> new range, often without having even touched the input range.  
> Thinking about it I think I may start using () to denote eager 
> versus lazy ranges in my UFCS chains.

This reminds me, I have to check whether my ranges are lazy 
enough (like myself).