New names - 2.068 roundup

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 05:24:26AM +0000, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wednesday, 24 June 2015 at 01:04:01 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> >Moreover, with this, some old code will *automatically* be upgraded
> >to laziness without needing to change at all too. Tell me that
> >doesn't at least tempt you!
> 
> I very much like this approach. I don't know that it'll work in the
> general case with the rangification of Phobos functions that don't
> currently return ranges, but in each case that it does work, it'll
> remove the need for distinguishing between function names, and it may
> allow us to make them completely lazy later - especially if some of
> what Walter was discussing at dconf with regards to automatically
> converting ranges to arrays when appropriate was implemented (e.g.
> when the range was assigned to an array).
> 
> And even better, every time that we go with this approach, we remove a
> bike shedding debate. :)
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Whoa. Adam, you just blew my mind. *This* would be what I call effective
use of the current language!

A solid +1 from me.


T

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