std.string and std.algorithm: what to do?

[Jacob Carlborg]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> dsimcha wrote:
>> == Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org)'s 
>> article
>>> I'm not sure what needs to be done about the combo string + algorithm.
>>> There's quite some overlap, and also functions that have the same name
>>> in both modules (e.g. find()), which forces you to disambiguate.
>>> Should std.algorithm automatically recognize strings and proceed
>>> accordingly, should it just consider them straight arrays and leave
>>> everything else to std.string (risky!), or refuse to handle strings?
>>
>> I like the idea of automatically specializing on strings, at least on 
>> the surface.
>>  It's less to remember for the programmer, less annoying naming 
>> collisions, and
>> stuff "just works".  You get your generic std.algorithm stuff when you 
>> need it and
>> your more optimized/variable length character encoding stuff when you 
>> need it
>> without having to explicitly specify which one you want.
> 
> Cool! So then how do I rename find, ifind, rfind, and irfind in std.string?
> 
> Andrei

Like others I think the names should be:

find -> indexOf
rfind -> lastIndexOf

but I think the declaration should look like this:

size_t indexOf (string s, dchar d, size_t start = 0)

perhaps an argument for case sensitive also:

size_t indexOf (string s, dchar d, size_t start = 0, bool caseSensitive 
= true)