Why don't other programming languages have ranges?

[Michel Fortin]

On 2010-07-26 14:42:54 -0400, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> said:

> 1. segfaults *are* exceptions.

At the processor level, yes. They're exceptions at the language level 
only on Windows, which I'd consider 'implementation defined', so not 
exceptions as far as the language is concerned.


> 2. D offers a memory safe subset, and D's ranges and algorithms are 
> memory safe.

That's more a wish than reality though. I have yet to see @safe applied 
on ranges and algorithms. I'm pretty sure it'll require a couple of 
adjustments to @safe. As it exists currently, @safe does not work very 
well with templates and delegate literals.


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