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I'm not a native English speaker, but a range can start with a
needle? Where is the haystack? :)
Yes the output is awful, but that does not imply some kind of
concepts is needed to make the documentation easier to
understand. And Python's startsWith makes no use of a protocol.
See here http://www.rafekettler.com/magicmethods.html for an
explanation.
Now that we're talking about creating your own sequences in
Python, it's time > to talk about protocols. Protocols are
somewhat similar to interfaces in other > languages in that
they give you a set of methods you must define. However, in >
Python protocols are totally informal and require no explicit
declarations to > implement. Rather, they're more like
guidelines.
It's similar to what we have, just with even less help from the
language. (We can at least statically check that some arguments
is e.g. a range).
Anyway, in the Python built-in lib I didn't find any
levenshtheinDistance
Please calculate the levenshtein distance of "aaabc" and "ababc"
both in python and D.
Then come back and tell me it was too hard in D compared to
Python.
, boyermooreFinder or
schschchcscshshscscshshscscssscsshcswarzSort.
Both are well known and useful algorithms. You might not know
them but that's actually no argument not to include them in
phobos. Their presence does not make the documentation any harder
to understand or harder to find a startsWith function.
I don't buy this "There is a function I don't know, it's so hard
to understand thing". That's like saying: I only need XML, don't
put JSON in the stdlib because I will get confused! How should I
anticipate that I don't need std.json when I just want to parse
XML? I cannot even google that for me.
