Proposal : mnemonic for start index for slices

[Shammah Chancellor via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 8 August 2015 at 13:08:08 UTC, Temtaime wrote:
> Hi !
> I want to add some sugar to D : sometimes it's necessary to use 
> complex start index.
>
> For example:
> auto sub = arr[idx + 123 * 10..idx + 123 * 10 + 1];
>
> Proposal is to add a mnemonic for start index, for instance :
>
> auto sub = arr[idx + 123 * 10..# + 1]; // # == start index
>
> # is for example. Maybe it can be @ or some other symbol.
>
> Any ideas ? Should i try to create a DIP ?

More sugar is more overhead for new people to learn just to 
understand code written in the language.  Why don't you do:

auto startIdx = idx + 123 * 10;
auto sub = arr[startIdx .. startIdx + 1];

-Shammah