std.algorithm.remove and principle of least astonishment

Bruno Medeiros brunodomedeiros+spam at com.gmail
Wed Nov 24 06:54:17 PST 2010


On 21/11/2010 18:23, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
> I have often reflected whether I'd do things differently if I could go
> back in time and join Walter when he invented D's strings. I might have
> done one or two things differently, but the gain would be marginal at
> best. In fact, it's not impossible the balance of things could have been
> hurt. Between speed, simplicity, effectiveness, abstraction, access to
> representation, and economy of means, D's strings are the best
> compromise out there that I know of, bar none by a wide margin.

Those things you would have done differently, would any of them impact 
this particular issue?

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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer


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