On Saturday, 6 August 2022 at 15:54:57 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Sat, Aug 06, 2022 at 03:37:32PM +0000, pascal111 via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
On Friday, 5 August 2022 at 04:05:08 UTC, Salih Dincer wrote:
> On Thursday, 4 August 2022 at 22:54:42 UTC, pascal111 wrote:
> > [...]
>
> Ranges and Slices are not the same thing. Slicing an array
> is easy. This is a language possibility. For example, you
> need an incrementing variable for the Fibonacci Series.
>
> SDB@79
What!!! so where's ranges?! I thought slices of any array are
ranges, and understood it like that, and also there's no data
type called ranges, it's like if you are talking about Ghostly
data type!
A range is any type that supports the Range API defined in
std.range (i.e., .empty, .front, .popFront). For more
explanations, read:
http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=1407357&rll=1
http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/ranges.html
http://dconf.org/2015/talks/davis.html
http://tour.dlang.org/tour/en/basics/ranges
http://wiki.dlang.org/Component_programming_with_ranges
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You know, the problem is that ranges in D lack the usage of
pointers as an essential tool to make all of ranges functions
they need. If ranges exist in C, they would use pointers, and
this is a powerful point in the account of C.
