shouldn't this throw ? iota(5).sliced(2,2)

[Timothee Cour via Digitalmars-d]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 10:07 PM, Ilya via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On Saturday, 9 January 2016 at 04:15:08 UTC, Timothee Cour wrote:
>
>> ok good, 'reshape' behaves as it should; but what's the rationale for not
>> throwing on 'iota(5).sliced(2,2) ' ?
>>
>> in light of what i wrote above, it's surprising behavior and will cause
>> bugs. What are the advantages of allowing it to not throw?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Ilya via Digitalmars-d <
>> digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Saturday, 9 January 2016 at 00:15:10 UTC, Timothee Cour wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm not sure I understand your argument.
>>>> My problem is that iota(5) has 5 elements which is more than 2*2, so I
>>>> would expect
>>>> iota(5).sliced(2,2)
>>>> or
>>>> iota(7).sliced(2,3).sliced(1,2)
>>>> to throw, as in pretty much any other tensor library:
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>
>>> auto a = iota(5).sliced(5);
>>> auto b = a.reshape(2, 2); // throws ReshapeException
>>> --ilya
>>>
>>
> Agreed. I will add optional exception (by default sliced will trow).
> --Ilya
>

thanks!! glad we could agree on this!
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