On Sunday, 14 October 2012 at 09:50:20 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
Why doesn't code like this work?
chain(repeat("a").take(5), repeat("b").take(5)).splitter("b");
There's two versions of splitter, the version that splits a range
using an element, and a version that splits a range using another
range.
The chain you're using creates a range of strings, and you are
splitting it using a string, so it appears you are going for the
first version.
The signature for that version is:
auto splitter(Range, Separator)(Range r, Separator s)
if (is(typeof(ElementType!Range.init == Separator.init))
&& (hasSlicing!Range || isNarrowString!Range))
chain doesn't support slicing (and isn't a narrow string), so you
can't split it using this function.
