Range proposal

[Bill Baxter]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Bruce Adams <tortoise_74 at yeah.who.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:42:25 +0100, Bill Baxter <wbaxter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The current range proposal...

Oh, seems it's actually taking place on digitalmars.d.announce.
You really can't omit d.announce if you're interested in discussions
about D's future.  For better or worse, mondo threads pop up there all
too often on the heels of big announcements.

> What current range proposal? I'm interested in what you're saying but a
> little
> context would be nice. The same with your post on bi-directional iterators.
>
> I googled and found this:
>
> http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/~aalexand/d/tmp/std_range.html

That's the one.

> The only thing that indicates that this is a proposal and not a full
> integrated
> and implemented library is the tmp in the URL. So what discussion have I
> missed?

digitalmars.d.announce.

I suppose he wrote the proposal as if it were a done deal to avoid
having to rewrite it when it is a done deal.

--bb