On Tuesday, August 06, 2013 11:05:56 Jakob Ovrum wrote: > What does everyone think?
I'm completely opposed to the removal of string lambdas. Obviously, they don't always work. More complicated functions definitely need to use the newer lambda syntax or function literals. But for simple lambdas, they're way better. I'd _much_ rather have func!"a != b"(args) than func!((a, b) => a != b)(args) or func!"a < b"(args) than func!((a, b) => a < b)(args). String lambdas are nice and short, and I think that they're plenty clear, and if they're not, they're trivial to explain. We already have string lambdas. Removing them would break code for little benefit IMHO. If you prefer to use the newer lambda syntax, then use that, but I think that it's a definite loss if we get rid of the string lambdas, as they're so much more concise when they do work. I also think that all new Phobos functions which take unary or binary predicates should support string lambdas. It's trivial for them to do so, and it creates needless inconsistencies if some functions support them and some don't. - Jonathan M Davis