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

[KennyTM~]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> I don't like the syntax I saw somewhere earlier in the thread of
>     0..iter.captures
> 
> .captures looks like it should be a set of captures, not a count.
> 
> This is a need that comes up again and again -- querying the size, or
> count, or length of some sub-element like this -- so I think it would
> greatly benefit Phobos to choose some less ambiguous convention and
> stick to it.   Like  nCaptures, numCaptures, capturesLength, etc.
> 
> ---bb

iter.count