Is str ~ regex the root of all evil, or the leaf of all good?

[Denis Koroskin]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:00:42 +0300, Christopher Wright  
<dhasenan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Denis Koroskin wrote:
>> "abracazoo".match("a[b-e]", "g") is as short as "abracazoo" ~  
>> regex("a[b-e]", "g") but doesn't existing conventions. I prefer it over  
>> '~' version. In is also fine (both ways).
>
> This isn't so good for two reasons.
> First, I can't reuse regexes in your way, so if there is any expensive  
> initialization, that is duplicated.
>
> Second, I can't reuse regexes in your way, so I have to use a pair of  
> string constants.

auto re = regex("a[b-e]", "g");
foreach (e; "abracazoo".match(re)) {
     // what's wrong with that?
}