Re: Is str ~ regex the root of all evil, or the leaf of all good?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Denis Koroskin wrote:

On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:23:13 +0300, Bill Baxter <wbax...@gmail.com> 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

Agree. I thought that iter.captures is a set (range) of captures.

I'm done implementing that.

Andrei