https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15596
--- Comment #4 from [email protected] --- (In reply to Manu from comment #3) > It is so hard to do string manipulation in phobos. Nobody I've encountered > yet can find most of the functions, they're scattered among 4, 5, 6? > modules. Unless you already know what the function names are, and where they > are, how can people find what they want? They do an exhaustive search > through a bunch of modules hoping to stumble upon it. > > My feeling is that it wouldn't hurt for std.string to alias the hell out of > other modules and make all the conventional string operations available in > one place. I agree, after reading your BR, I've myself done the error to write a popWhile() function using a predicate for my user lib after what I've remembered about algorithm.mutation, but it was too late... Maybe a note in the std.string doc: "see also: for more generic strip funcyion..." --
