Duals or ranges and reactive D
Szymon Gatner
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Thu Feb 27 04:41:13 PST 2014
C#'s IObservable<>/IObserver<> made me think how would a dual
[1][2] of a range concept look in D. Since D has no equivalent
IEnumerable<> (as it is no needed thanks to templates) it is only
about IEnumerator<> / IObserver<> part which relates to a D range.
Ranges/enumerators are models of 'pull' style interface whereas
their duals represent models of 'push' style enabling reactive
programming [3] techniques which are really nicely solving issues
of asynchronous / event - based programming.
I suppose OutptRange is similar in concept, although it has
'OnCompleted' / 'OnError' missing.
What do you think? Rx along with LINQ is a really clean solution
to the problem of asynchronous ranges of values. I think it would
be very nice to have in D too.
[1]
http://csl.stanford.edu/~christos/pldi2010.fit/meijer.duality.pdf
[2]
http://josemigueltorres.net/index.php/ienumerableiobservable-duality/
[3]
https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Expert-to-Expert-Brian-Beckman-and-Erik-Meijer-Inside-the-NET-Reactive-Framework-Rx
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