Bartosz Milewski seems to like D more than C++ now :)

[Dmitry Olshansky]

20-Sep-2013 14:00, Jacob Carlborg пишет:
> On 2013-09-20 11:37, Szymon Gatner wrote:
>
>> If only std algorithms took containers (by that I mean things that
>> container for accepts too) as arguments (and not iterators)... even in
>> the form of new functions like foreach_all, transform_all etc.
>
> Can't a container be a range as well?
>

For Christ sake no, no and no. For starters range skips/drops elements 
when iterating, and thusly iteration has its own state that is useless 
for a container otherwise.

The idea of "contange" spreads like virus, no matter how abominable the 
end result is. The fact that slices sometimes look like containers (BTW 
ill-suited for anything beyond primitives/PODish stuff )  must be the 
corner stone of this belief. Strengthened on the motto of trying to make 
user defined types to mimic behavior of built-ins it leads to a school 
of thought that it's fine to blend ownership and access.

TL;DR: Suboptimal, unnatural and error prone are keywords.

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Dmitry Olshansky