On 1/22/11 11:38 AM, Torarin wrote:
2011/1/22 Andrei Alexandrescu<seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org>:
OK, so we have replace(haystack, needle, nail) which replaces _all_
occurrences of needle in haystack with nail. How would you call a function
that replaces only the _first_ occurrence of needle with nail?

Must be a distinct function, not a runtime parameter to the existing
function. This is because the function that replaces only one occurrence
only requires nail to be an input range.


Andrei


It sounds like the current replace should be named replaceAll.

Torarin

That's what I'm fearing - changing current replace to replaceAll and adding replace with the meaning of replaceFirst would silently change the semantics of existing code.

Andrei

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