Am Mon, 30 Dec 2013 12:08:18 +0400 schrieb Dmitry Olshansky <dmitry.o...@gmail.com>:
> 30-Dec-2013 09:29, Marco Leise пишет: > > Am Sun, 29 Dec 2013 22:45:35 +0000 > > schrieb "Vladimir Panteleev" <vladi...@thecybershadow.net>: > > > >> [snip] > >> > >> 2. I don't understand the rationale behind the current semantics > >> of lookahead/lookbehind. If you want to e.g. peek ahead/behind to > >> find the first whitespace char, you don't know how many chars to > >> request. Wouldn't it be better to make these functions return the > >> ENTIRE available buffer in O(1)? > > > > Yeah, been there too. I guess after X years of programming > > chances are good you implemented some buffer with > > look-ahead. :) > > > > I use those primitives: > > > > ubyte[] mapAvailable() pure nothrow > > ubyte[] mapAtLeast(in ℕ count) > > > > Yeah, that's a good idea. > I mean primitives, not Unicode in type names ;) One day it'll catch on :D -- Marco
