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digitalmars.D.learn - Implementing iterators for D custom data structures (best practices)

reply Granville Barnett <granville gbarnett.org> writes:
Hi All,

I've not used D for long so hopefully this question isn't too stupid...

Are there any best practices for implementing iterators in D? My 
understanding is that D follows a similar design approach to the STL RE 
containers - iterators - algs - adapters etc.

Also, are there any examples of well written data structures that expose 
iterators?...I recall that in D only arrays have them (I may be wrong, I 
haven't looked). Any open source projects that are notoriously well 
implemented?

Thanks in advance.

GB
Oct 16 2011
parent reply Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> writes:
On Monday, October 17, 2011 10:22:42 Granville Barnett wrote:
 Hi All,
 
 I've not used D for long so hopefully this question isn't too stupid...
 
 Are there any best practices for implementing iterators in D? My
 understanding is that D follows a similar design approach to the STL RE
 containers - iterators - algs - adapters etc.
 
 Also, are there any examples of well written data structures that expose
 iterators?...I recall that in D only arrays have them (I may be wrong, I
 haven't looked). Any open source projects that are notoriously well
 implemented?
 
 Thanks in advance.
D code doesn't normally use iterators. It uses ranges, which are a similar but generally superior concept. http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=1407357 std.range and std.algorithm in particular make heavy use of ranges: http://d-programming-language.org/phobos/std_range.html http://d-programming-language.org/phobos/std_algorithm.html - Jonathan M Davis
Oct 16 2011
next sibling parent Granville Barnett <granville gbarnett.org> writes:
On 17/10/2011 10:55, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
 On Monday, October 17, 2011 10:22:42 Granville Barnett wrote:
 Hi All,

 I've not used D for long so hopefully this question isn't too stupid...

 Are there any best practices for implementing iterators in D? My
 understanding is that D follows a similar design approach to the STL RE
 containers - iterators - algs - adapters etc.

 Also, are there any examples of well written data structures that expose
 iterators?...I recall that in D only arrays have them (I may be wrong, I
 haven't looked). Any open source projects that are notoriously well
 implemented?

 Thanks in advance.
D code doesn't normally use iterators. It uses ranges, which are a similar but generally superior concept. http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=1407357 std.range and std.algorithm in particular make heavy use of ranges: http://d-programming-language.org/phobos/std_range.html http://d-programming-language.org/phobos/std_algorithm.html - Jonathan M Davis
Thanks Jonathan, I'll take a look. GB
Oct 16 2011
prev sibling parent deadalnix <deadalnix gmail.com> writes:
In addition, I would like to mention this confrence by Andrei 
Alexandrescu : http://blip.tv/boostcon/boostcon-2009-keynote-2452140

Le 17/10/2011 04:55, Jonathan M Davis a écrit :
 On Monday, October 17, 2011 10:22:42 Granville Barnett wrote:
 Hi All,

 I've not used D for long so hopefully this question isn't too stupid...

 Are there any best practices for implementing iterators in D? My
 understanding is that D follows a similar design approach to the STL RE
 containers - iterators - algs - adapters etc.

 Also, are there any examples of well written data structures that expose
 iterators?...I recall that in D only arrays have them (I may be wrong, I
 haven't looked). Any open source projects that are notoriously well
 implemented?

 Thanks in advance.
D code doesn't normally use iterators. It uses ranges, which are a similar but generally superior concept. http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=1407357 std.range and std.algorithm in particular make heavy use of ranges: http://d-programming-language.org/phobos/std_range.html http://d-programming-language.org/phobos/std_algorithm.html - Jonathan M Davis
Oct 17 2011