On Thursday, 9 January 2014 at 16:22:08 UTC, Manu wrote:
It's nice that it's unicode correct, but it's not nice that you
have to be
familiar with a massive amount of the standard library and you
need to
search through 4-5 (huge! and often poorly documented) modules
to find the
functions you need to perform _basic string operations_, like
finding the
last instance of a character...
That I do agree. One idea is that once everything is split into
smaller packages we can start providing meta-packages that do
public imports of small sets of commonly used functions.
Still once needed functions are found I do consider end result
very robust for what it actually does and don't know any other
language that does it better.
My standing opinion is that string manipulation in D is not
nice, it is
possibly the most difficult and time consuming I have used in
any language
ever. Am I alone?
Unicode is the doom. If you only keep ASCII in mind you statement
is indeed true and D stuff seems ridiculously complicated
compared even to plain C. But it has also teached me that _every
single_ program I have written before in other languages was
broken in regards to Unicode handling. So, yes, it is quite
difficult but it is the cost for doing what no one else does -
being correct out of the box. Well, at least in most scenarios :)
