Re: std.compress

[Walter Bright]

On 6/4/2013 11:43 AM, Timothee Cour wrote:
writing generic code.
same reason as why we prefer:
auto y=to!double(x) over auto y=to_double(x);

The situations aren't comparable. The to!double case is parameterizing with a 
type, the compress one is not. Secondly, compress(lzw) does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING 
but turn around and call lzw. It adds nothing.