Ranges

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sat, Aug 06, 2022 at 03:37:32PM +0000, pascal111 via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Friday, 5 August 2022 at 04:05:08 UTC, Salih Dincer wrote:
> > On Thursday, 4 August 2022 at 22:54:42 UTC, pascal111 wrote:
> > > 
> > > I didn't notice that all what we needs to pop a range forward is
> > > just a slice, yes, we don't need variable here.
> > 
> > Ranges and Slices are not the same thing. Slicing an array is easy.
> > This is a language possibility. For example, you need an
> > incrementing variable for the Fibonacci Series.
> > 
> > SDB at 79
> 
> What!!! so where's ranges?! I thought slices of any array are ranges,
> and understood it like that, and also there's no data type called
> ranges, it's like if you are talking about Ghostly data type!

A range is any type that supports the Range API defined in std.range
(i.e., .empty, .front, .popFront). For more explanations, read:

	http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=1407357&rll=1
	http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/ranges.html
	http://dconf.org/2015/talks/davis.html
	http://tour.dlang.org/tour/en/basics/ranges
	http://wiki.dlang.org/Component_programming_with_ranges


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