"Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:igib2q$12g...@digitalmars.com... > Adam Ruppe wrote: >> I don't know about bearophile, but I used a lot of the functions >> you are talking about removing in my HTML -> Plain Text conversion >> function used for emails and other similar environments. squeeze the >> whitespace, align text, wrap for the target, etc. > > As has been pointed out, a lot of these seemingly odd functions come from > Python/Ruby/Javascript. Users of those languages will be familiar with > them, and they've proven themselves handy in those languages. > > Let's not be cavalier about dumping them just because they aren't familiar > to C programmers.
I agree with this reasoning for having them. However, I don't think it means we shouldn't D-ify or Phobos-ify them, at least as far as capitalization conventions.
