On Tuesday, 4 June 2013 at 18:46:49 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
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.
That "absolutely" based on limited personal experience is the biggest D's problem.
