On Wednesday, 5 June 2013 at 04:54:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 6/5/13 12:44 AM, Max Samukha wrote:
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.
It's a point, but "biggest" is also kind of too much and based
on limited personal experience :o).
Andrei
Yeah, I noticed that.
