On Wednesday, 17 July 2013 at 09:48:06 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:
I find it disturbing that the built-in property "keys" would
dup an entire array, and then copy all the keys into that
array, whereas the function "byKeys()" will simply allow you to
iterate on the keys.
"keys" is in blatant violation of the "properties emulate
members" mind-set.
My sentiments exactly. I feel it would also be more appropriate
to name it 'getKeys'.
I get the feeling that a lot of methods in Phobos use @property
just because they can, and it makes me itch when I come across
them. 'dup' and 'idup' are big offenders. Can't wait to get a
debugger that visualizes data, and tries to fetch both 'dup'
properties of a multi-megabyte array. Of course there's no way
to undo that now without breaking absolutely EVERYONE's code.
