I have had few bugs caused by byLine not copying the line on
default. Now we have byLineCopy, but sometimes I forget to use
it. In D I prefer unsafe functions to be on request, and safe
ones by default.
Originally I suggested to give to byLine a boolean template
argument named "doCopy" that is true on default and can be set to
false for performance:
https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4474
So can we deprecate byLine and introduce something with a short
name that is safer and something with a longer name that is
faster (or probably better use just one function with the doCopy
boolean template argument set to true by default).
A possible name for such function is "byRow!(bool doCopy=true,
.....)" and then slowly deprecate byLine and byLineCopy.
Bye,
bearophile
