alt Hacker News> but `std::span` should have been there decades ago
Absolutely! I now use it consistently in all new projects where I can afford to mandate C++20. I guess nobody bothered to make a proposal before...
> but `std::span` should have been there decades ago
Absolutely! I now use it consistently in all new projects where I can afford to mandate C++20. I guess nobody bothered to make a proposal before...
They did in C, from one of the language authors even, and it was not accepted.
https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/varar...
By the way, both Extended Pascal, Mesa/Cedar and Modula-2 have them, under the name of open arrays.
Basically it took Go, C# and others for C++ to finally get its span.
C probably never will.