After reading Hidden Features and Dark Corners of C++/STL on comp.lang.c++.moderated, I was completely surprised that the following snippet compiled and worked in both Visual Studio 2008 and G++ 4.4.
It wouldn’t have surprised me at all, if they did (they love their keywords), but that one actually isn’t a keyword. It’s an extension method implemented for the various number types, so you can also write 5.downTo(1).
Kotlin has one (well, more like keyword, but aren’t operators just keywords written in non-alphabetic)
downToIt wouldn’t have surprised me at all, if they did (they love their keywords), but that one actually isn’t a keyword. It’s an extension method implemented for the various number types, so you can also write
5.downTo(1).