Food for thought
Don Clugston
dac at nospam.com.au
Wed Feb 14 01:41:36 PST 2007
Dave wrote:
> Don Clugston wrote:
>> Robby wrote:
>>> The implementation of array methods to me is one of the sexiest, and
>>> yet quietest features of D. Probably do to the duh factor, but none
>>> the less. (any method that has an array as the first argument can use
>>> a shortened syntax)
>>
>> IIRC, it's quiet because it was originally a bug. Albeit a very
>> popular one. And that's why it only works in a peculiar subset of cases.
>> Even for arrays, it doesn't work for operator overloading, unfortunately.
>> I wonder if Walter's worked out why it works <g>. (Mind you, the list of
>
> I don't think it was ever unintentional: expression.c, line 4895 (v1.005)
OK, I've finally begun an Easter egg list <g>.
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?EasterEggs
>
>> Easter eggs that have appeared in D is getting pretty impressive --
>> maybe it's a half-implemented feature rather than a bug).
>>
>> It would indeed be fabulous if it worked all cases.
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