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

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 9/20/13 9:46 AM, Szymon Gatner wrote:
> On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 16:38:29 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 9/20/13 8:13 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
>>> On 20/09/13 16:48, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>>> A container should not be confused with a range. That way leads to
>>>> dragons. :-P  (It's rather unfortunate that built-in arrays conflate
>>>> the
>>>> two, it leads to a lot of wrong code that works only with arrays but
>>>> not
>>>> with "real" ranges.)
>>>
>>> Built-in arrays are not _always_ ranges.  Consider const(int[]) ... as I
>>> found out recently, it's _not_ a range, because you can't popFront on a
>>> const entity.
>>>
>>
>> Well you can't call popFront on any const range.
>>
>
> What is even the purpose of const ranges? It makes little sense imho.

I'd agree. As an aside, they don't have to make sense.

Andrei