C++ gets slices with std:span but Ubisoft has been doing it for ages

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5 pointsgigatexal2 comments

That's good, but in Fortran, Matlab, R, Julia, and Python/NumPy you can slice multidimensional arrays and have strides other than 1, for example

x(1:9:2,1:5)

which returns a matrix with the first 5 elements of every other row. Will C++ get something like this?

Good question, I dunno. Perhaps with another abstraction like this?