dsimcha wrote:
== Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu ([email protected])'s article
I'm not sure what needs to be done about the combo string + algorithm.
There's quite some overlap, and also functions that have the same name
in both modules (e.g. find()), which forces you to disambiguate.
Should std.algorithm automatically recognize strings and proceed
accordingly, should it just consider them straight arrays and leave
everything else to std.string (risky!), or refuse to handle strings?
I like the idea of automatically specializing on strings, at least on the
surface.
It's less to remember for the programmer, less annoying naming collisions, and
stuff "just works". You get your generic std.algorithm stuff when you need it
and
your more optimized/variable length character encoding stuff when you need it
without having to explicitly specify which one you want.
Cool! So then how do I rename find, ifind, rfind, and irfind in std.string?
Andrei
