std.multidimarray

[Dennis Ritchie via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 25 May 2015 at 18:11:32 UTC, Vlad Levenfeld wrote:
> The matrix implementation is really just a placeholder, when I 
> have more time I would like to fill it out with compile-time 
> swappable backend implementations using the same matrix 
> frontend (eg forwarding arithmetic operations to gsl routines).
>
> So yes, the matrix example is very raw (I assume by damp you 
> meant "siroi"). The other structures are much more fleshed out 
> and provide much better examples of what I'm going for (ie any 
> of the reimplemented Phobos adaptors: cycle, stride, etc).

Yes crude meaning "raw".

> The library itself is meant to generate consistent, safe 
> interfaces for all manner of multidimensional structures (or, 
> at least those that resemble cartesian products of half open 
> intervals).
>
> I can drop in a naive backend later this week as a concrete 
> demonstration.
>
> Its unlikely, even in complete form, that this would be 
> suitable for inclusion in Phobos (it adds a lot of nonstandard 
> idioms), but many of the design issues surrounding 
> multidimensional structures with not-necessarily-integral 
> indices have been carefully addressed; their solutions may 
> prove useful in the effort to build a standard library package.

Yes, that's what I mean. Some common questions about working with 
multidimensional arrays need to be addressed. For example, the 
cycle `foreach` multiple iterators, etc.