std.metastrings

[Brad Roberts]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Bill Baxter wrote:

> Std.metastrings could use some work.
> 
> So I'm thinking to take it upon myself to make it more useful.
> 
> After asking some questions here about it previously, I got a bunch of
> comments like "oh yeh I have that in my CoolTools.ctfe module".  Well,
> that's kinda silly that everyone is re-inventing such things.
> 
> I'm just mentioning this here in case someone wants to stop me,  or
> offer their versions of CoolTools.ctfe, or argue that it should be
> std.ctfe rather than std.metastrings, or whatever.
> 
> My plan is to try to do things with an API that reflects std.string as
> closely as possible, and then as CTFE gets better, just replace those
> functions with aliases to the ones in std.string.  So eventually
> std.metastrings should contain little more than a bunch of aliases.
> But in the mean time there'll be a one-stop shop for basic
> compile-time string manipulation functions.
> 
> --bb

It would be nice to first do a pass through the general code and see what 
parts don't work in a ctfe context and catalog what's missing.  Some might 
be quick to fix within the phobos layers, some might be quick to fix in 
the compiler.

Food for thought,
Brad