to!()() & leading/trailing whitespace

2010-08-16 Thread bearophile
This post is about this enhancement request of mine that recently David Simcha has closed as wontfix: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4165 This topic is about a small Phobos thing, it's not about large complex things as the const system. But it's relevant because I have hundreds of

Re: to!()() & leading/trailing whitespace

2010-08-16 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Monday, August 16, 2010 15:35:51 bearophile wrote: > This post is about this enhancement request of mine that recently David > Simcha has closed as wontfix: > http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4165 > > This topic is about a small Phobos thing, it's not about large complex > things a

Re: to!()() & leading/trailing whitespace

2010-08-16 Thread bearophile
Jonathan M Davis: > A string with whitespace is _not_ a number. I will not agree with this this (I am talking about leading/trailing whitespace only). Regarding the other things you say, I have already given answers to them. Bye, bearophile

Re: to!()() & leading/trailing whitespace

2010-08-16 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Monday, August 16, 2010 16:49:45 bearophile wrote: > Jonathan M Davis: > > A string with whitespace is _not_ a number. > > I will not agree with this this (I am talking about leading/trailing > whitespace only). Regarding the other things you say, I have already given > answers to them. > > By

Re: to!()() & leading/trailing whitespace

2010-08-16 Thread bearophile
Jonathan M Davis: > Well, while it may not be what you want, writing a wrapper which calls > strip() > would be easy to do. It's what I will probably do... Bye, bearophile

Re: to!()() & leading/trailing whitespace

2010-08-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
bearophile wrote: This post is about this enhancement request of mine that recently David Simcha has closed as wontfix: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4165 [snip] Phobos functions are meant as the most simpler bricks, that you may compose to perform more complex operations: this

Re: to!()() & leading/trailing whitespace

2010-08-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Monday, August 16, 2010 16:49:45 bearophile wrote: Jonathan M Davis: A string with whitespace is _not_ a number. I will not agree with this this (I am talking about leading/trailing whitespace only). Regarding the other things you say, I have already given answers to

Re: to!()() & leading/trailing whitespace

2010-08-16 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Monday 16 August 2010 16:49:45 bearophile wrote: > Jonathan M Davis: > > A string with whitespace is _not_ a number. > > I will not agree with this this (I am talking about leading/trailing > whitespace only). Regarding the other things you say, I have already given > answers to them. > > Bye,

Re: to!()() & leading/trailing whitespace

2010-08-17 Thread Norbert Nemec
On 17/08/10 02:49, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: bearophile wrote: This post is about this enhancement request of mine that recently David Simcha has closed as wontfix: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4165 [snip] Phobos functions are meant as the most simpler bricks, that you may co