On Sunday, 9 March 2014 at 19:40:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
6. Take into account ASCII and maybe other alphabets? Should
be as
trivial as .assumeASCII and then on you march with all of
std.algo/etc.
Walter is against that. His main argument is that UTF already
covers ASCII with only a marginal cost (that can be avoided)
and that we should go farther into the future instead of
catering to an obsolete representation.
Andrei
When I've wanted to write code especially for ASCII, I think it
hasn't been for use in generic algorithms anyway. Mostly it's
stuff for manipulating segments of memory in a particular way,
like as seen here in my library which does some work to generate
D code.
https://github.com/w0rp/dsmoke/blob/master/source/smoke/string_util.d#L45
Anything else would be something like running through an
algorithm and then copying data into a new array or similar, and
that would miss the point. When it comes to generic algorithms
and ASCII I think UTF-x is sufficient.
