Ranges of char and wchar

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 08/05/14 23:33, Walter Bright wrote:

> It's true that when I first encountered C#'s LINQ, I was surprised that
> it was lazy.
>
> It's also true that most of std.algorithm is lazy. Apart from coming up
> with a new naming convention (and renaming algorithms in Phobos), I
> don't see any obvious solution to what's lazy and what's not.
>
> One possibility is to informally (i.e. in the documentation rather than
> the core language spec) call something an 'algorithm' if it is lazy and
> 'function' if it is eager.

Don't know if it helps, but we could add a UDA indicating which 
functions are lazy. This wouldn't require any renaming of existing 
functions.

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/Jacob Carlborg