[OT] Re: Targeting C

[Ary Borenszweig]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:50:34 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu 
>> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>>
>>>> What does iota mean?
>>>
>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/phobos/std_range.html#iota
>>>
>>> Irony minded. I'm destroyed.
>>
>> Hm... this is slightly off topic, but that function signature is 
>> absolutely horrendous (in fact, I thought you linked to the wrong 
>> place at first).  Isn't there any way to avoid putting half the type 
>> construction as the return value?  Do all range-creating functions 
>> suffer from this problem?  Maybe it's just a ddoc problem.
> 
> I wanted to use auto, but ddoc cannot document functions with auto returns.

Is it too hard to fix that? I think ddoc works before the semantic pass 
so the return type is null by then, but it isn't very hard to see a "if 
type.next != null" in the source code...

I say it because I also find horrendous the signature. And what's more, 
it's hard to find the word "iota" there.

I also think "iota" is an awful name for that function.