[Issue 5034] New: Ranged (or bounded) array initializer

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           Summary: Ranged (or bounded) array initializer
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: spec
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: nobody at puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: rsinfu at gmail.com


--- Comment #0 from Shin Fujishiro <rsinfu at gmail.com> 2010-10-10 13:39:45 PDT ---
When creating certain kind of tables, people often do the following brute-force
to fill some ranges in static arrays as follows:


enum CharType { none, digit, alpha, punct }

static immutable CharType[char.max + 1] toCharType =
[
 /* 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 */
    0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
       ...snip...
    0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,
    1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
       ...snip...
];


It's very bug-prone and hard to maintain.  So, for such kind of range-filling
initialization, I propose the following more clean syntax:


static immutable CharType[char.max + 1] charTypes =
[
    // [new syntax] ranged initializers
    '0' .. '9'+1: CharType.digit,
    'A' .. 'Z'+1: CharType.alpha,
    'a' .. 'z'+1: CharType.alpha,

     // usual initializer
    ':': CharType.punct
];


Does it look good?  As for this problem, I think CTFE doesn't much help - the
above syntax is very clean and intuitive.

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