Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > dsimcha wrote: > > == Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org)'s article > >> I'm not sure what needs to be done about the combo string + algorithm. > >> There's quite some overlap, and also functions that have the same name > >> in both modules (e.g. find()), which forces you to disambiguate. > >> Should std.algorithm automatically recognize strings and proceed > >> accordingly, should it just consider them straight arrays and leave > >> everything else to std.string (risky!), or refuse to handle strings? > > > > I like the idea of automatically specializing on strings, at least on the > > surface. > > It's less to remember for the programmer, less annoying naming collisions, > > and > > stuff "just works". You get your generic std.algorithm stuff when you need > > it and > > your more optimized/variable length character encoding stuff when you need > > it > > without having to explicitly specify which one you want. > > Cool! So then how do I rename find, ifind, rfind, and irfind in std.string? > > Andrei
Maybe you should rename the new stuff - indexOf, etc. Why break existing code that works with D1 and D2 and tests for -1. I think that find may be a rather widely used function. Steve