extend "in" to all array types
John Colvin
john.loughran.colvin at gmail.com
Wed Jan 15 07:51:04 PST 2014
On Wednesday, 15 January 2014 at 15:38:19 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 January 2014 at 15:30:35 UTC, pplantinga wrote:
>> Is there any chance we could extend this to every kind of
>> array?
>
> Probably not, since there's a significant speed difference
> between in associative array and in regular array. For a
> regular array, it means potentially looping over every item in
> the array. As a general rule, D likes to make long loops
> obvious in some way, like a different function name.
>
> There are functions which do the same thing. Notably,
> std.algorithm.canFind
>
> import std.algorithm;
> if(array.canFind(x)) { /* do something */ }
>
>
> You could also define your own function In if you wanted to
> keep the order that way:
>
> bool In(T)(T lookFor, T[] lookIn) {
> import std.algorithm;
> return lookIn.canFind(lookFor);
> }
>
> if(x.In(array)) { /* do something */ }
>
> It is capitalized so it doesn't clash with the keyword, and
> still uses the dot - it is a function called with dot syntax
> instead of an operator - but it works.
or:
import std.functional : binaryReverseArgs;
import std.algorithm : canFind;
alias In = binaryReverseArgs!canFind;
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