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digitalmars.D - $, __dollar, opDollar: can't define my own?

reply "Chris Miller" <chris dprogramming.com> writes:
There should be an opDollar, or some other name, such as opEnd, to  
overload $ for user-defined classes/structs/unions. Or instead, it could  
even simply just access a length member if it exists.

I have a struct that wraps an array and works like an array in almost  
every way except for the $ feature of arrays.
Oct 03 2006
next sibling parent reply Oskar Linde <oskar.lindeREM OVEgmail.com> writes:
Chris Miller wrote:
 There should be an opDollar, or some other name, such as opEnd, to 
 overload $ for user-defined classes/structs/unions. Or instead, it could 
 even simply just access a length member if it exists.
 
 I have a struct that wraps an array and works like an array in almost 
 every way except for the $ feature of arrays.
It would also be very nice to support $ in some way for multidimensional indexing: myclass[$-1, $-1] myclass[1..$-1, x % $] For some of my own classes, I have a templated opIndex that supports: myclass[end-1,end-1] myclass[range(1,end-1), x % end] etc... It would be really nice to get the same functionality with the first syntax. My solution is to make special types. Briefly: struct End { EndRel opMinus(int i) { EndRel x = {i}; return x; } EndMod opMod_r(int i) { EndMod x = {i}; return x; } } End end; // Global end instance struct EndRel { int i; } struct EndMod { int i; } struct FullRange {} Fullrange all; // Global all range struct Range { int start, end; } struct EndRange { int start; } struct EndRelRange { int start; int endrel; } Range range(int start, int end) { Range x = {start,end}; return x; } EndRange range(int start, End dummy) { EndRange x = {start}; return x; } EndRelRange range(int start, EndRel endrel) { EndRelRange x = {start,endrel}; return x; } The class template code for opIndex then need to handle arguments of types int, End, EndRel, EndMod, FullRange, Range, EndRange, EndRelRange, etc... This may all be a bit overkill, but what would be really great is having a range type that a..b expands into at lest. That type could then support opApply making foreach(i; 0..10) { ... } possible for instance. /Oskar
Oct 03 2006
next sibling parent "Andrey Khropov" <andkhropov_nosp m_mtu-net.ru> writes:
Oskar Linde wrote:

 This may all be a bit overkill, but what would be really great is having a
 range type that a..b expands into at lest. That type could then support
 opApply making
 
 foreach(i; 0..10) { ... }
 
 possible for instance.
Yes, I'm also curious why slices aren't first class objects in D: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/40556.html. It would be just so handy, especially if you do a lot of vector/matrix/tensor operations. I just got sick and tired writing infinite "for(int i = 0; i < n; ++i)" in my C++ code :( -- AKhropov
Oct 04 2006
prev sibling parent Fredrik Olsson <peylow gmail.com> writes:
Oskar Linde skrev:
<snip>
 This may all be a bit overkill, but what would be really great is having 
 a range type that a..b expands into at lest. That type could then 
 support opApply making
 
 foreach(i; 0..10) { ... }
 
 possible for instance.
 
YES! Ranges and sets, as I have pleaded for ages. It is a bliss for reducing code size, and allows some very nice readability stuff. It is not that hard to implement either, most Pascal implementations does it with a simple bit-field. Doing it with templates and tricks gets you the functionality, but misses the point of a clean and readable syntax. // is it lowercase ASCII? if (ch in 'a'..'z') { ... } // Is the selection bold? if (TextAttriibutes.BOLD in text.selection.attributes() { ... } // Make selected text underline. text.selection.attributes += TextAttriibutes.UNDERLINE; // Get all days where both Adam and Beatrice are free, but not monday. goodDays = adam.availableDays - beatrice.availableDays - Days.MONDAY; Ranges and sets are priceless for handling "a bag of values", without the need to write error prone iterations, or just as error prone and large boolean expressions. // Fredrik Olsson
Oct 04 2006
prev sibling parent "icee" <iceelyne gmail.com> writes:
 overload $ for user-defined classes/structs/unions. Or instead, it could 
 even simply just access a length member if it exists.
just take the place of .length, not a separate overload.
Oct 04 2006