Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > Michel Fortin wrote: >> On 2009-08-09 11:10:48 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu >> <[email protected]> said: >> >>>> It's also arguable that all functions in std.string should take >>>> const(char)[]. Or, you know, const(T)[], since D supports encodings >>>> other than UTF-8, despite what std.string leads you to believe. >>> >>> Yah, I think they should all be parameterized so they can work with >>> various character widths and even encodings. >> >> But shouldn't they work with *ranges* in general, a string being only >> a specific case? > > That's true as well! In my dreams, me and the famous actress... oh wait, > wrong dream. In my dreams, I eliminate std.string and put all of its > algorithms, properly generalized, in std.algorithm, to work on more than > just arrays, and more than just characters. > > Andrei
How do you define 'tolower' on non-characters?
