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May 02, 2005 more MinTL changes (not backwards compatible) | ||||
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While looking at the classes and interfaces I started pondering the SortedAA and LinkedAA structs and I'd like to make some non-backwards compatible changes (in case anyone cares give a holler). 1) change key slicing to exclude the upper endpoint. That way one can write nice slicing expressions like dictionary["a" .. "b"] for all the words that start with "a". 2) rename fromHead and fromTail to begin and end to be closer to C++-style iterators. Slices involving subarrays will be inclusive (as before) so that one can write x[x.begin .. x.end] and have it slice the entire thing. I'll add mixed-type slicing so that x["a" .. x.end] works, too. 3) add from(key) and to(key) to get one-item slices. from(key) is the smallest item greater than or equal to key and to(key) is the largest item less than key. So x["a" .. "b"] is equivalent to x[x.from("a") .. x.to("b")] 4) rename Seq to Sequence, SeqWithKeys to IndexedSequence 5) rip out all the mapSeq, findSeq and catSeq. |
May 02, 2005 Re: more MinTL changes (not backwards compatible) | ||||
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Posted in reply to Ben Hinkle | On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 17:02 -0400, Ben Hinkle wrote: > While looking at the classes and interfaces I started pondering the SortedAA and LinkedAA structs and I'd like to make some non-backwards compatible changes (in case anyone cares give a holler). Since I haven't started using MinTL in my stuff, I don't really care. > > 1) change key slicing to exclude the upper endpoint. That way one can write nice slicing expressions like dictionary["a" .. "b"] for all the words that start with "a". How would one do something like split a table in two? Previously (as I understand it) it would have been: dict["a".."m"] dict["n".."z"] But with these changes, "a"'s and "z"'s wouldn't be included. > > 2) rename fromHead and fromTail to begin and end to be closer to C++-style iterators. Slices involving subarrays will be inclusive (as before) so that one can write x[x.begin .. x.end] and have it slice the entire thing. I'll add mixed-type slicing so that x["a" .. x.end] works, too. > > 3) add from(key) and to(key) to get one-item slices. from(key) is the smallest item greater than or equal to key and to(key) is the largest item less than key. So x["a" .. "b"] is equivalent to x[x.from("a") .. x.to("b")] Could I use this to do the above? How would that look? > > 4) rename Seq to Sequence, SeqWithKeys to IndexedSequence > > 5) rip out all the mapSeq, findSeq and catSeq. > > John Demme |
May 02, 2005 Re: more MinTL changes (not backwards compatible) | ||||
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Posted in reply to John Demme | >> 1) change key slicing to exclude the upper endpoint. That way one can >> write >> nice slicing expressions like dictionary["a" .. "b"] for all the words >> that >> start with "a". > How would one do something like split a table in two? > Previously (as I understand it) it would have been: > dict["a".."m"] > dict["n".."z"] > But with these changes, "a"'s and "z"'s wouldn't be included. The expression dict["a".."m"] wouldn't include keys like "mud" but it would include the key "m". Similarly dict["n".."z"] wouldn't include "zed". So it would only have split the table if it didn't include multi-letter words. With the new behavior dict["a".."m"] wouldn't include "m". To split dict in two one could write dict[dict.begin() .. "m"] dict["m" .. dict.end()]; >> 3) add from(key) and to(key) to get one-item slices. from(key) is the >> smallest item greater than or equal to key and to(key) is the largest >> item >> less than key. So x["a" .. "b"] is equivalent to x[x.from("a") .. >> x.to("b")] > Could I use this to do the above? How would that look? Another way of writing the above would be dict[dict.begin() .. dict.to("m")] dict[dict.from("m") .. dict.end()]; but that's not the main reason for from/to since it's the same as above. The use for from/to will be for getting "iterators" that one can manipulate efficiently. |
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