Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Jason House wrote:
The first follow-up to your reply captured the kind of messiness bind
can bring in C++. So far, all your examples are trivial (lack
argument reordering, function composition, etc...). It's true that
your examples look clean, but the devil will be in the details.
I see. The only problem is that very few people seem to use std.bind;
there are few interesting examples of arbitrary partial argument binding
that need formalization. The one good example I know of is those float
vector permutations, but nobody in their right mind would use a delegate
for that!
That all makes it even more appealing to stick with a five-liner in
std.functional that gets currying into the bag (which is a useful and
low-hanging fruit) and call std.bind history. Makes sense?
Andrei
Yes. I think that the smaller Phobos can be, the better. Make sure that
everything in it is actually useful, and ditch the rest.
