Re: Creeping Bloat in Phobos

[monarch_dodra via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 28 September 2014 at 23:21:15 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
It's very simple for an algorithm to decode if it needs to, it 
just adds in a .byDchar adapter to its input range. Done. No 
special casing needed. The lines of code written drop in half. 
And it works with both arrays of chars, arrays of dchars, and 
input ranges of either.

This just misses the *entire* familly of algorithms that operate 
on generic types, such as "map". EG: the totality of 
std.algorithm. Oops.