Re: std.conv length=0

2012-03-29 Thread Jesse Phillips
On Thursday, 29 March 2012 at 04:25:54 UTC, James Miller wrote: I find the distaste of reviving a thread strange. It would be like removing the reopened feature of bug tracking software (who wants to transpose all that information). I have no problem with it, if I did, I would have said so.

Re: std.conv length=0

2012-03-28 Thread cc
On Tuesday, 10 April 2007 at 07:46:35 UTC, Bill Baxter wrote: Derek Parnell wrote: Currently, the functions in std.conv throw an exception if the input string is empty. What is the rationale for this? I too thought this behavior was silly, so I wrote a little wrapper for it (replying 5

Re: std.conv length=0

2012-03-28 Thread James Miller
On 29 March 2012 16:03, cc c...@nevernet.com wrote: On Tuesday, 10 April 2007 at 07:46:35 UTC, Bill Baxter wrote: I too thought this behavior was silly, so I wrote a little wrapper for it (replying 5 years after the fact because someone'll probably stumble onto this question through Google

Re: std.conv length=0

2012-03-28 Thread Jesse Phillips
On Thursday, 29 March 2012 at 03:40:55 UTC, James Miller wrote: I award thee the Necromancer badge, for reviving a long-dead thread. -- James Miller I find the distaste of reviving a thread strange. It would be like removing the reopened feature of bug tracking software (who wants to

Re: std.conv length=0

2012-03-28 Thread James Miller
On 29 March 2012 17:05, Jesse Phillips jessekphillip...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, 29 March 2012 at 03:40:55 UTC, James Miller wrote: I award thee the Necromancer badge, for reviving a long-dead thread. -- James Miller I find the distaste of reviving a thread strange. It would be like