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Re:My Vision of D’s Future by anaphor on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @05:18PM (#21263918)
On the other hand, I like the explicitness of it instead of automatically converting to a different type. At least you know exactly what it's doing.

The python version of it would be calling `list()` on things all the time, which you might not always want to do.

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Re:My Vision of D’s Future by abaga129 on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @06:46PM (#21264843)
That's a fair point. I'm not necessarily against having to do it, I just would like there to be a more obvious indication of how to convert the result to an array. It took a lot of searching the first time I came across this.

Perhaps it's just my own incompetence though!

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Re:My Vision of D’s Future by anaphor on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @08:05PM (#21265542)
It's definitely not your incompetence. I started learning D a few months ago and it didn't click until someone on IRC explained it clearly to me. It's not in the tutorial or anything unless I missed it.
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Re:My Vision of D’s Future by he_the_great on Thursday October 17, 2019 @12:04AM (#21278816)
It is the first thing I added to my articles when I introduced range based operations :

https://dev.to/jessekphillips/count-of-a-list-in-d-49k4

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