On Tuesday, 30 July 2019 at 05:30:30 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
In principle, it's good to use const when you know that data
isn't going to change, but that gets far more complicated when
you're dealing with generic code or even with classes, since as
soon as you use const, everything used wi
On Monday, July 29, 2019 3:11:45 PM MDT Matt via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Monday, 29 July 2019 at 19:38:34 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > On Monday, July 29, 2019 11:32:58 AM MDT Matt via
> > Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
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> > Because const ranges are basically useless, there reall
On Monday, 29 July 2019 at 19:38:34 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Monday, July 29, 2019 11:32:58 AM MDT Matt via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
Because const ranges are basically useless, there really isn't
much point in putting const on any range functions even if it
would work for that pa
On 29.07.19 21:35, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Generally, the idiom is to let the compiler do attribute inference by
templatizing your code and not writing any explicit attributes, then use
unittests to ensure that instantiations of the range that ought to have
certain attributes actually have those attrib
On Monday, July 29, 2019 1:35:18 PM MDT H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
> Generally, the idiom is to let the compiler do attribute inference by
> templatizing your code and not writing any explicit attributes, then use
> unittests to ensure that instantiations of the range that ought to
On Monday, July 29, 2019 11:32:58 AM MDT Matt via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> I've noticed that for some ranges in Phobos empty is marked const
> (e.g. iota) but for other ranges (e.g. multiwayMerge) it is not
> const. Is there a reason why? Isn't empty guaranteed not to alter
> the data of the ra
On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 05:32:58PM +, Matt via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> I've noticed that for some ranges in Phobos empty is marked const
> (e.g. iota) but for other ranges (e.g. multiwayMerge) it is not
> const. Is there a reason why? Isn't empty guaranteed not to alter the
> data of the
On Monday, 29 July 2019 at 17:32:58 UTC, Matt wrote:
I've noticed that for some ranges in Phobos empty is marked
const (e.g. iota) but for other ranges (e.g. multiwayMerge) it
is not const. Is there a reason why? Isn't empty guaranteed not
to alter the data of the range and so should be const?