On 6/4/2013 11:04 AM, John Colvin wrote:
On Tuesday, 4 June 2013 at 17:50:47 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
What value does a function which just passes an alias to another one add?
A unified interface called "compress" that takes a compression function as an
alias (with e.g. lzwCompress as a default) seems like a nicer way of working,
seeing as people don't necessarily care/know about which algorithm they're
using, they just want to compress something a bit.
Also, it would be cool if a range could remember which algorithm it was
compressed with (as it's type? I.e. LzwRange), so a generic function "expand"
could call the appropriate ***Expand
What is the improvement of typing:
compress(lzw)
over:
lzwCompress()
?
