On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 08:36:07 -0000, Stanislav Blinov
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Friday, 24 January 2014 at 08:21:12 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2014-01-23 21:53, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
I would expect "contains" to take a element and check if it exists in
the range.
I think "canFind" is just a weird name.
I agree on the latter point. As for "contains"... Well, if we address
the terminology, we should consider that ranges are not really
containers, therefore "contains" would be slightly incorrect. Perhaps
"encounters" or "isWithin"? :)
This is the complete opposite of the point I was trying to make :p
I don't want a generic name/function, or a range specific name/function we
already have the generic one, and probably a range one, I want a string
specific one - in this particular example - with a name people will expect
to find (pun intended) when doing string manipulation.
On a serious note though, "contains" is leagues ahead of "canFind".
I think it depends on the context.
R
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