Issue 1323

[Tomek Sowiński]

bearophile napisał:

> > Also, IMO, it has no real advantage, why not use std.algorithm.find instead ?  
> 
> The syntax is worse, I don't like to call a function for something so common and basic. It's like calling a library
> function to join two strings (and find("hello", "llox") doesn't return a boolean).

That can be pretty much solved with a wrapper:

bool has(alias pred = "a == b", R, E)(R haystack, E needle) {
    return find(haystack, needle).empty;
}

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if (someString.has(c))
    ...

Can we add 'has' (or call it 'contains', I don't mind) to std.algorithm and end the discussion?

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Tomek