On 2014-12-26 01:48, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
In this case, my colleague felt it was hard to understand the string functions, but he got through it (after sending me txt messages to ask questions). I recall making the same comments when I first started trying to do string manipulation in D. My personal take is, string functions are all templates, which makes them look more complex than they are, and for me, it was really hard to understand where to look for certain functions; they're spread fairly evenly across 5 or so different modules. Algorithm, range, ascii, uni, utf. Some of the most important functions are in range and algorithm. Perhaps those that are fairly string specific from range/algorithm should have aliases in std.string, or std.string might public import some of the minor modules, like ascii/uni/utf?
Don't forget about std.array as well ;) -- /Jacob Carlborg
