• monarch_dodra (26/26) Oct 30 2012 1.
• Jonathan M Davis (8/36) Oct 31 2012 The only documentation on it that I'm aware of is in TDPL, and the secti...

"monarch_dodra" <monarchdodra gmail.com> writes:

1.
I saw a pull request that claimed to "fix" opDollar go through 
recently. Does this mean we can now use it correctly? In both
r[0..$];
and
r[$..$];
forms?

2.
Would it be OK if I asked for a little implementation tutorial on 
opDollar, and how to correctly write one when dimensions can get 
involved? I'm unsure how it is done (I've seen both 
"opDollar(size_t dim)()" and "opDollar(size_t dim)")

3.
One last question: The possibility of using opDollar to slice a 
range to its end (in particular, infinite ranges) has been 
brought up more than once. May I request we have a normalized 
type:
struct InfDollar{}

Or something inside range.d?

This way, infinite ranges would not have to invent a new token 
themselves just for this, and simply implement "auto 
opSlice(size_t i, InfDollar dol)?"

4. In the context of the above question, would it be possible to 
implement opDollar simply as an enum?
enum opDollar = InfDollar.init;
Or would that be a problem?

Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> writes:

On Tuesday, October 30, 2012 08:01:58 monarch_dodra wrote:
 1.
 I saw a pull request that claimed to "fix" opDollar go through
 recently. Does this mean we can now use it correctly? In both
 r[0..$];
 and
 r[$..$];
 forms?

It seems to work from the little playing around with it that I've done.

 2.
 Would it be OK if I asked for a little implementation tutorial on
 opDollar, and how to correctly write one when dimensions can get
 involved? I'm unsure how it is done (I've seen both
 "opDollar(size_t dim)()" and "opDollar(size_t dim)")

The only documentation on it that I'm aware of is in TDPL, and the section 
isn't very long.

 3.
 One last question: The possibility of using opDollar to slice a
 range to its end (in particular, infinite ranges) has been
 brought up more than once. May I request we have a normalized
 type:
 struct InfDollar{}
 
 Or something inside range.d?
 
 This way, infinite ranges would not have to invent a new token
 themselves just for this, and simply implement "auto
 opSlice(size_t i, InfDollar dol)?"

Sounds reasonable to me.

 4. In the context of the above question, would it be possible to
 implement opDollar simply as an enum?
 enum opDollar = InfDollar.init;
 Or would that be a problem?

I very much doubt it, but I don't know. You'll have to try it and see if it 
works.

- Jonathan M Davis