http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2635

           Summary: $ for user-defined slices should forward to
                    value.length, not global __dollar. Also injected
                    "length" must go.
           Product: D
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: bugzilla@digitalmars.com
        ReportedBy: andrei@metalanguage.com


Good uses of $ came forth in conjunction with infinite ranges and sentinel-terminated ranges (e.g. singly-linked lists). Those don't have a length defined or easily computed, so slicing with range[n .. $] is possible whereas range[n .. m] is not possible.

To effect that, no extra opDollar etc. is needed; we can work with the "length" attribute of the value being indexed/sliced.

a) In slice expressions and index expressions with ONE argument, $ should expand to value.length, where value is the object being indexed/sliced (if an unnamed temporary, the value is of course only evaluated once).

b) In index expressions with multiple arguments, $ expand to value.length(i),
where i is the zero-based argument position.

This is exactly enough what's needed to make it all work. Infinite ranges may define a symbolic infinite length and overload slicing on it.


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------- Comment #1 from schveiguy@yahoo.com  2009-01-29 20:28 -------
I think expanding to length is not always correct, although I do agree that it can be solved with the proposed method.

Length is not always the name of the term you would pass to a slice.

Example: sorted dictionary (Red-black tree based for instance).  A slice of this container would use two key types as slice indexes.  So you would have to define a property length that returns a key, which is super unintuitive for people who are trying to use the length property outside a slicing operation (imagine if the key type is string, your length has to return a string).

I think the opDollar would suit this rather well, but maybe call it opSliceEnd, or something like that (to follow the spirit of current operator naming scheme).


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Lionello Lunesu <lio+bugzilla@lunesu.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Lionello Lunesu <lio+bugzilla@lunesu.com> 2013-02-06 19:53:03 PST ---
*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 7177 ***

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