• Kagamin <spam here.lot> May 17 2010

Kagamin <spam here.lot> writes:

KennyTM~ Wrote:

 If it's ordered, then why doesn't [0..15] make sense to get the first 15
 elements?


 auto a = new OrderedDict!(int, string);
 a[-3] = "negative three";
 a[-1] = "negative one";
 a[0] = "zero";
 a[3] = "three";
 a[4] = "four";
 assert(a[0] == "zero");
 return a[0..4]; // which slice should it return?


If your collection supports the array interface, you can provide it explicitly,
when zero means the start.