On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 20:27:40 +0000 Sean Kelly via Digitalmars-d <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's the only function in std.string that takes a string by ref > instead of by value, and this screws up call chaining. What's > the reason for this? It looks like it's trying to act like std.conv.parse, though that behavior isn't useful in quite the same way when what's being returned is a string. However, it _is_ among the std.string functions which take patterns and would ideally be changed to take regexes, so if that ever/finally gets done, then that would be a prime time to change the function's behavior if its current behavior is undesirable. - Jonathan M Davis
