Super-dee-duper D features
Bill Baxter
dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com
Tue Feb 13 02:24:21 PST 2007
janderson wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
>> James Dennett wrote:
>>> C++, of course, has std::for_each(e.begin(), e.end(), do_x);
>>> in its library (though that's weaker than it could be because
>>> of lack of support for convenient anonymous functions/lambdas).
>>>
>>> C++0x is very likely to have for(v: e). It's implemented
>>> in ConceptGCC already. Java already has essentially that,
>>> as does C#. This really doesn't set D apart (but at least
>>> D isn't falling behind here).
>>
>> BTW, D might soon have simultaneous iteration that will blow away all
>> conventional languages:
>>
>> foreach (i ; coll1) (j ; coll2)
>> {
>> ... use i and j ...
>> }
>> continue foreach (i)
>> {
>> ... coll2 finished; use i ...
>> }
>> continue foreach (j)
>> {
>> ... coll1 finished; use j ...
>> }
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Maybe its a bit to late here however this syntax seems very special
> case. Can you explain why its necessary and how we would use it. How
> would we do this currently (without meta programming)?
>
Yeh, I don't get it either. How would that help me implement merge()
from merge sort for instance?
--bb
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