if(arr) now a warning
w0rp via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Apr 10 02:27:55 PDT 2015
I think it's worth changing this.
if (arr)
translating to
if (arr.length == 0)
Is immediately obvious for anyone coming from at least a Python
background. I have implemented my own hashmaps in a similar way.
For my maps, the length is stored in the map so it can be
retrieved in O(1) time, and cast(bool) results in map.length ==
0. (This extends also to empty sets.)
If we need a deprecation path, we can do it. We just warn about
if (arr) for a while, so you are told to use if(arr.length == 0)
or if (arr.ptr is null) for a while, then we change the behaviour
in another release.
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