ch-ch-update: series, closed-form series, and strides

[grauzone]

Ary Borenszweig wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu escribió:
>> bearophile wrote:
>>> Andrei Alexandrescu:
>>>> foreach (e; take(10, fib)) writeln(e);
>>>
>>> I think take(fib, 10) is quite better.
>>> I presume the API of those things will need about a year of usage to 
>>> become refined.
>>>
>>> Bye,
>>> bearophile
>>
>> SPJ held a gun to my head and said: "take(10, fib)".
> 
> Who is SPJ?
> 
> I find "take(10, fib)" more readable: take 10 from fib. Same order.

I prefer the other way around.

There's another argument for take(fib, 10) that isn't just about taste: 
if fib was an array, you could write fib.take(10).

Weren't there discussions to allow a.F(b...) for F(a,b...) in general?