• bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> Apr 07 2009
• Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> Apr 07 2009

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

dsimcha:
 Two things that had been discussed on this NG that I noticed are conspicuously
 absent:  eager(), which converts a lazy range to an array,


eager() name is bad. Better array(), or toArray(), or something like that. More
descriptive.

Bye,
bearophile

Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:

bearophile wrote:
 dsimcha:
 Two things that had been discussed on this NG that I noticed are
 conspicuously absent:  eager(), which converts a lazy range to an
 array,


 eager() name is bad. Better array(), or toArray(), or something like
 that. More descriptive.


At best this is a more general function that creates one range from 
another using a name of e.g. makeCopy.

auto a = makeCopy!(int[])(input);
auto b = makeCopy!(List!int)(input);


Andrei