On 2014-04-19 15:40, monarch_dodra wrote:
Nonsense. It still works 99% of the time (I think only a subset of 100 letters in all of Unicode are affect, and even then, another 100 of them *shrink* on toUpper). It is really useful. It avoids *needles* allocations. Removing it would be more harmful than useful.
I'm implicitly referring to toLowerInPlace as well.
I'm pretty confident that most of the time it is used, people don't care *that* much that *absolutely* no allocation takes place. They just don't want to be wasteful.
It still has a confusing name.
Rename "toUpperMaybeInPlace".
Actually, the functionality is useful, it's just the name that is confusing.
Then, for those that absolutely *can't* allocate provide a better interface. For example: `void toUpper(S, O)(S s, ref O o);` Burden on the caller to make it "inplace" from that (or to allocate accordingly when inplace is not possible).
-- /Jacob Carlborg
