std.range.iota enhancement: supporting more types (AKA issue 10762)
bearophile
bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Tue Dec 24 02:44:53 PST 2013
Francesco Cattoglio:
> I agree. After relaxing the range, we can prefer a specialized
> version over the iota(begin, end, 1) version. The latter should
> be used as a backup instead for cases where ++ is not
> implemented.
One possible disadvantage is when you want an array of various
iota (all of the same indexed type, like int) (currently this
doesn't compile), this was a potential use case for me:
void main() {
import std.range: iota;
auto intervals = [iota(10), iota(2, 7), iota(2, 15, 2)];
}
Bye,
bearophile
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