On Tuesday, December 24, 2013 02:06:22 Brad Anderson wrote: > On Monday, 23 December 2013 at 22:41:47 UTC, John Carter wrote: > > Eww. > > > > If I read the source correctly it mallocs a new array and runs > > down the > > original at least three times! (Four if you count peeks) > > > > Not to mention that it is completely unintegrated with stdio. > > > > Sigh! I miss the Good Old Days of 7-bit ASCII! ;-) > > Pull requests with improvements are always welcome. I don't think > std.encoding gets a lot of attention.
Andrei has also stated that he thinks that it's a failed experiment. I think that it's one of the modules that could use a redesign (including making it range based), but no one has taken the time to do that. - Jonathan M Davis