• "Charles" <no email.com> Dec 16 2004
• Benjamin Herr <ben 0x539.de> Dec 16 2004
• Stewart Gordon <smjg_1998 yahoo.com> Dec 17 2004
• "Lionello Lunesu" <lionello.lunesu crystalinter.remove.com> Dec 17 2004
• "Ben Hinkle" <bhinkle mathworks.com> Dec 17 2004
• Benjamin Herr <ben 0x539.de> Dec 17 2004
• "Ben Hinkle" <bhinkle mathworks.com> Dec 17 2004
• "Lionello Lunesu" <lionello.lunesu crystalinter.remove.com> Dec 17 2004
• "Ben Hinkle" <bhinkle mathworks.com> Dec 17 2004
• Benjamin Herr <ben 0x539.de> Dec 17 2004
• "Ben Hinkle" <bhinkle mathworks.com> Dec 17 2004
• Stewart Gordon <smjg_1998 yahoo.com> Dec 17 2004

This has probably already been mentioned , and I know D's not implementing
new features , but what about using negative numbers to indicate starting
from the end of the array

char [] x = "comma,";

char [] y = x[0 .. -1]; // y is 'comma'


No special charaters , no new keywords , no scoping rules ( is length still
a keyword in slicing ? ).

Thoughts ?

Charlie

Charles wrote:
 using negative numbers to indicate starting from the end of the array


I think the issue is that this would require run time checks for the 
sign of the array index, which would be unneccessary in a lot of cases.

If you require this feature, you might want to use a more sophisticated 
Array class anyway.


-Ben

Charles wrote:
 This has probably already been mentioned , and I know D's not implementing
 new features , but what about using negative numbers to indicate starting
 from the end of the array
 
 char [] x = "comma,";
 
 char [] y = x[0 .. -1]; // y is 'comma'



Been talked to death already, starting from

D/24082

As has the fact that the 'group you're posting on is deprecated.  Taking 
to digitalmars.D....

Stewart.

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 Been talked to death already, starting from


You mean "it wasn't accepted before so fo'getaboutit!" ?

Another reason we need some standard for arguing about suggestions. Everyone 
with a suggestion gets tired at some point and stops explaining / improving 
his exception. It's kind of silly to forget about some suggestion just 
because Walter hasn't had the time to reply/react/implement it.

Are we (people interested in D) really satisfied if only bugs got fixed and 
D remained the way it is now?

(I'm not)

Lionello

(Damn, I know only too well what happens if one person, me in this case, 
changes the tone of a conversation on a newsgroup. Should I rewrite my post? 
I didn't accuse anyone, so this post seems clean... to me...) 

 Are we (people interested in D) really satisfied if only bugs got fixed


 D remained the way it is now?


i am

Ben Hinkle wrote:
 Are we (people interested in D) really satisfied if
 only bugs got fixed and D remained the way it is now?


 i am


I am not! *troll*

"Benjamin Herr" <ben 0x539.de> wrote in message
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 Ben Hinkle wrote:
 Are we (people interested in D) really satisfied if
 only bugs got fixed and D remained the way it is now?


 i am


 I am not! *troll*


I'm confused. why the *troll*?

what's troll?? :-&

"Ben Hinkle" <bhinkle mathworks.com> wrote in message 
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 "Benjamin Herr" <ben 0x539.de> wrote in message
 news:cpv0qd$2gju$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 Ben Hinkle wrote:
 Are we (people interested in D) really satisfied if
 only bugs got fixed and D remained the way it is now?


 i am


 I am not! *troll*


 I'm confused. why the *troll*?

 

"Lionello Lunesu" <lionello.lunesu crystalinter.remove.com> wrote in message
news:cpv1pl$2hvc$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 what's troll?? :-&


see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll

Ben Hinkle wrote:
 "Benjamin Herr" <ben 0x539.de> wrote in message
 news:cpv0qd$2gju$1 digitaldaemon.com... 
Ben Hinkle wrote:

Are we (people interested in D) really satisfied if
only bugs got fixed and D remained the way it is now?


i am


I am not! *troll*


 I'm confused. why the *troll*?


Because my post was not really contributive :(

"Benjamin Herr" <ben 0x539.de> wrote in message
news:cpvb30$2sao$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 Ben Hinkle wrote:
 "Benjamin Herr" <ben 0x539.de> wrote in message
 news:cpv0qd$2gju$1 digitaldaemon.com...
Ben Hinkle wrote:

Are we (people interested in D) really satisfied if
only bugs got fixed and D remained the way it is now?


i am


I am not! *troll*


 I'm confused. why the *troll*?


 Because my post was not really contributive :(


oh - don't worry about that. My wasn't very deep either. I was worried you
were either calling me or the OP a troll, which was why I was confused.

Lionello Lunesu wrote:
 Been talked to death already, starting from


 You mean "it wasn't accepted before so fo'getaboutit!" ?



No.  I mean that there has already been a discussion on this idea, and 
so the OP might as well look at what was said there, rather than just 
let the debate repeat itself with potentially no new content.

Stewart.

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