So... add maxCount and maxPos?
tn via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jan 21 03:24:51 PST 2016
On Thursday, 21 January 2016 at 01:11:19 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
> On 01/20/2016 04:22 PM, Ivan Kazmenko wrote:
>> 2. The index of minimum or maximum element, mostly using plain
>> array as
>> a range. I write "a.length - a.minPos.length", and it looks
>> completely
>> unintuitive. Additionally, when compiling to 64 bits, I
>> usually still
>> want an int to use with other ints around (longs are overkill
>> most of
>> the time), and the cast adds more clobber. Again, is there a
>> better way
>> to express that?
>
> No better way currently. We could add (min|max)Index but I like
> (min|max)Pos quite a bit. They offer more flexibility for
> non-random access ranges.
But (min|max)(Index|Key) offer different type of flexibility as
those make sense for associative containers.
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