On Thu, 14 May 2009 09:55:08 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu
<[email protected]> wrote:
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?
Also, I dislike the signature int find() that returns -1 if not found.
Time and again experience shows that find() returning a range is much
better in real code because it works seamlessly when the
substring/element was not found (no more need for an extra test!)
So I want to rename std.string.find() into something like findIndex or
indexOf. But then we also have ifind, rfind, irfind. Ideas for renaming?
find -> indexOf
rfind -> lastIndexOf
This is consistent with C# and Java.
ifind, irfind -> do we care about renaming? They kind of seem niche
anyways.
another alternative, leave ifind and irfind deprecated for a while and
redefine indexOf to be e.g.:
indexOf(string s, dchar d, bool caseSensitive = true)
-Steve
