Daniel Keep wrote:
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?
That and others would remain specific for characters. I do help to be
able to abstract functions such as e.g. strip().
Andrei
