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[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Michel Fortin wrote:
> On 2009-08-09 14:10:10 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> said:
> 
>>> But shouldn't they work with *ranges* in general, a string being only 
>>> a specific case?
>>
>> That's true as well! In my dreams, me and the famous actress... oh 
>> wait, wrong dream. In my dreams, I eliminate std.string and put all of 
>> its algorithms, properly generalized, in std.algorithm, to work on 
>> more than just arrays, and more than just characters.
> 
> And what is preventing the dream from comming true, I mean, the one 
> about string functions? Is there someone who doesn't want this?

1. Time. 2. It would break a lot of code that uses strings (I know, not 
a very strong argument.) Time is the main issue.

Andrei