[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#8959) remove CAR_DIR_D[XY]

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8959 >

rwetmore@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>>>But if you just coded in the efficient iterator core from any of the
>>>corecleanups, you could change one value to loop over every second
>>>element of the rotationally ordered adjacent array to get the cartesian
>>>iterators - or just copy the existing code.
>>
>>No, that iterator form won't work since it doesn't allow us to change 
>>which directions are cardinal.
> 
> Clearly a false and foolish statement ... almost any programmer could
> work this one out at a moment's need.

Could you be a little more specific?

jason