RFC on range design for D2
Benji Smith
dlanguage at benjismith.net
Tue Sep 9 20:32:31 PDT 2008
Walter Bright wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> superdan wrote:
>>> u could've stopped readin'. general comments without experience are
>>> oxpoop. my mailman could give'em.
>>
>> The thing about iterators and collections is that they look so simple,
>> but getting the right design is fiendishly difficult.
>
> And when a correct design is devised, the mark of genius is everyone
> will think it in retrospect to be simple and obvious!
Also: everyone will measure the quality of that design using a different
yardstick.
For my money, the best collection design I've ever worked with is the C5
library for .Net, developed at the IT University of Copenhagen:
http://www.itu.dk/research/c5/
http://www.ddj.com/windows/199902700
--benji
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