On Tuesday, 6 August 2013 at 09:05:57 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
In Phobos pull request #1453 (Implement chunkBy.)[1], the topic
of string lambda functions has again cropped up. I think we
should clearly decide on some things regarding them. Questions
such as; are they a worthwhile alternative in the present
language? Should they be deprecated? Should they be supported
in new additions to Phobos?
What does everyone think?
I was certainly irritated, when I used the std.functional stuff
the first time. Code generation through strings is kind of a last
resort to me. It should be avoided if possible. Since it is
possible now, I would vote for deprecating string functions.
