array operations and ranges

[Manu via Digitalmars-d]

On 27 April 2015 at 15:58, Vlad Levenfeld via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> Phobos containers already support the first line, and it would be a
>> natural extension to make them support the second.
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> Sure, it's not complicated. It's something I had done in this other code and
> showing for example.


Yeah, see I don't feel making a simple thing like an array into
something more complex by wrapping it in templates is ever a good
thing to do.
I just think it's a missed opportunity that the compiler doesn't
support any of this in the language.

It would appear at face value to be a great opportunity for lowering.
Assignment can lower to .copy(), operators can lower to map!(...)

I can tell you, if I tried to explain to my colleagues that we should
wrap an array in a template so assignment works, they would laugh at
me, then ridicule me, and then they would dismiss D. Better to say
it's not supported than to show them that approach.