On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:47 AM, KennyTM~ <[email protected]> wrote: > Bill Baxter wrote: >> >> I don't like the syntax I saw somewhere earlier in the thread of >> 0..iter.captures >> >> .captures looks like it should be a set of captures, not a count. >> >> This is a need that comes up again and again -- querying the size, or >> count, or length of some sub-element like this -- so I think it would >> greatly benefit Phobos to choose some less ambiguous convention and >> stick to it. Like nCaptures, numCaptures, capturesLength, etc. >> >> ---bb > > iter.count
Maybe I haven't paid close enough attention here, but I think the reason he didn't say .count or .length is that it's ambiguous whether it means the number of captures or the number of matches. --bb
