I've written plenty of multidimensional array slices in Matlab, Python,
and Fortran >= 90, but I don't feel like I miss the colon operator when
I use mdspan. It's easy to mess up the indexing (especially the
three-argument version), so a tiny bit more verbosity helps me slow down
and think.

mfh


On 2/16/2021 04:35, Gašper Ažman via Ext wrote:
> Are we sure we will never want pytlon-like :-based slicing syntax?
>
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2021, 07:58 Isabella Muerte via Ext
> <ext_at_[hidden] <mailto:ext_at_[hidden]>> wrote:
>
> From what I understand the backtick (`) is available in all
> existing character sets, including EBCDIC. Instead of ^, perhaps
> surrounding something within backticks would be the way to go. e.g.,
>
> int var = 42;
>
> auto info = `var`;
>
>
> I understand that this would make writing markdown without triple
> backtick support "not fun", but if we made decisions for C++ based
> on how nice a web page generator looked, we wouldn't have quite a
> few features I reckon.
>
> As a brief addendum, I do like the use of [: :]. It keeps banana
> clips ([| and|] respectively) open for our use in the future.
>
> On February 15, 2021, EWG <ext_at_[hidden]
> <mailto:ext_at_[hidden]>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Andrew, Wyatt, and Daveed kindly finished the paper which was
> mentioned during last SG7 session and because the next SG7
> meeting is next week *I would like all of you to read the
> paper and send feedback to SG7 mailing list*, so we have as
> much of information as possible.
>
> The paper is here: https://isocpp.org/files/papers/P2320R0.pdf
> <https://isocpp.org/files/papers/P2320R0.pdf> and it will be
> part of the next mailing.
>
> Hana
>
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