contiguous ranges

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Feb 19 11:32:25 PST 2015


On 2/19/15 11:29 AM, Pasqui23 wrote:
> On Thursday, 19 February 2015 at 11:20:13 UTC, Guillaume Chatelet wrote:
>
>>
>> From this discussion I understand you mainly want to be able to BitBlt
>> ranges
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_blit
>>
>> BitBlt covers multi dimensional arrays as well (2D textures) and might
>> convey the semantic you want better than Contiguous (too fine grained ?).
>>
> Effectively bit blit range is a better name than contiguous range,but as
> I have said this and range castable to T[] are not mutually exclusive
> concepts.

I don't see a need for contiguous ranges if the only embodiment is T[]. 
-- Andrei


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