RFC on range design for D2

[Leandro Lucarella]

Andrei Alexandrescu, el  9 de septiembre a las 07:47 me escribiste:
> Lionello Lunesu wrote:
> >"Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message 
> >news:ga46ok$2s77$1 at digitalmars.com...
> >>I put together a short document for the range design. I definitely missed 
> >>about a million things and have been imprecise about another million, so 
> >>feedback would be highly appreciated. See:
> >>
> >>http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/~aalexand/d/tmp/std_range.html
> >This is just awesome. Thank you for tackling this issue.
> >I agree with others that some names are not so obvious. Left/right? How do 
> >Arabic speakers feel about this : ) Begin/end seems more intuitive.
> 
> I don't know of that particular cultural sensitivity. Begin and end are
> bad choices because they'd confuse the heck out of STL refugees. c.left
> and c.right are actually STL's c.front() and c.back() or *c.begin() and
> c.end()[-1], if you allow the notational abuse. But I sure hope some
> good names will come along.

I think STL refugees can deal with it. I think there is no point on keep
compromising D's readability because of C/C++ (you just mentioned enum,
another really bad choice to keep C/C++ refugees happy).

I find left and right a little obscure too, it all depends on your mental
image of a range. Using front/back or begin/end is much more clearer.

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