[phobos] std.array.ilength

[David Simcha]

Vote++, though I'd venture to say the same thing about min(), max(),
array(), and a few other misc goodies from std.array, std.algorithm,
std.functional and std.range.  This would make D a much better language for
small/scripting programs, if you didn't have the friction of having to
import all these small convenience functions.

Right now my solution is that I have a module called custom.phobos (custom
is my very uncreative namespace for libs that I write that are not intended
to be release quality and are just for personal use) that publicly imports
all the Phobos modules that I use just about everywhere.  std.all would have
been a great idea, except it causes too many naming collisions and the need
to use qualified names.

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Steve Schveighoffer <schveiguy at yahoo.com>wrote:

> BTW, I think perhaps this should go in object.di.  It's a small enough
> template that it won't add too much bulk, and it would be nice to have this
> available at all times without having to import std.array.
>
> To draw a comparison, arr.capacity, arr.assumeSafeAppend and arr.reserve()
> are all in object.di.
>
> -Steve
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From:David Simcha <dsimcha at gmail.com>
> > To:Discuss the phobos library for D <phobos at puremagic.com>
> > Cc:
> > Sent:Thursday, February 17, 2011 8:59 AM
> > Subject:[phobos] std.array.ilength
> >
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > Kagamin just came up with a simple but great idea to mitigate the
> pedantic
> > nature of 64-bit to 32-bit integer conversions in cases where using
> size_t
> > doesn't cut it.  Examples are storing arrays of indices into other
> arrays,
> > where using size_t would be a colossal waste of space if it's safe to
> assume
> > none of the arrays will be billions of elements long.
> >
> > int ilength(T)(T[] arr) {
> >     assert(arr.length <= int.max);
> >     return cast(int) arr.length;
> > }
> >
> > Usage:
> >
> > int[] indices;
> > auto array = returnsArray();
> > indices ~= array.ilength;
> >
> > This cuts down on the excessive verbosity of an explicit cast that's safe
> > 99.999 % of the time and encourages sprinkling it into code even if for
> the
> > foreseeable future it will be compiled in 32-bit mode.
> >
> > Two questions:
> >
> > 1.  Is everyone ok with me adding this as a convenience function to
> std.array?
> > 2.  int or uint?  I used int only b/c that was the example on the
> newsgroup, but
> > I think uint makes more sense.
> >
> > --David Simcha
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