Please vote once and for good: range operations

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Wed Jan 28 18:00:41 PST 2009


Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> So I'm not sure there's any point in listing C# as a viable candidate to 
> steal property names from ;)  C# and .net in general I think suck in terms 
> of standard containers/algorithms anyways.  It's one thing I don't like 
> about it.

While searching various language samples/standard libs, I couldn't stop 
noticing that .Net had the most childish concepts and the least 
appealing APIs and code samples. Looked like 21st century Visual Basic 
to me, only more verbose.

> I don't mind any of the normal choices (I don't count car as being 
> 'normal')

Hey, I have an idea: car and trailer! :o)

> but if Walter insists on keeping foreach_reverse, let's all 
> remember that whatever is chosen for the rear/toe/last element of a range is 
> going to be embedded in the compiler/spec, and essentially set in stone.

Yah, I agree.

Andrei



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