Forbid dynamic arrays in boolean evaluation contexts
bearophile
bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Mon Mar 25 07:58:29 PDT 2013
Andrea Fontana:
> Is empty() there just to match range "interface"?
Right, it's useful for arrays to fulfill the range protocol.
> length needs no import :)
On the other hand in a longhish module you sometimes need
std.array for other purposes, so you have imported it already.
"data.empty" is shorter, and it contains only two (psychological)
chunks, while "data.length == 0" contains four. So empty makes
the code simpler.
And empty doesn't break the syntax uniformity of UFCS chains :-)
Bye,
bearophile
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