Problem with string.whitespace and newline

[Jonathan M Davis]

On 2011-06-11 19:41, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On 2011-06-11 19:29, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> > I can't seem to find anything specific like an enhancement request.
> > 
> > Here's a similar report by you:
> > http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4971
> > 
> > Maybe we should have a 'common (newbie) mistakes' section on the
> > website and add this bit of information there.
> 
> It certainly sounds like a good idea. And thanks to the fact that we're
> switching to d-programming-language.org, and its source is up on github,
> it's even possible for anyone to make the changes necessary and create a
> pull request for it.
> 
> What I'd like to see templates be able to do though is better recognize a
> type that _will_ work in at least a few common cases. Static arrays are
> one (if all of the template overloads fail, perhaps it should try
> instiating them with the dynamic version of the same type). Another is
> immutable dynamic arrays. const(T)[] would work if you declared the
> template with those explicit parameters, but as long as it's taking R or
> Range instead of const(T)[] for arrays, a range-based function won't work
> with immutable arrays even though it should. But that sort of change could
> be too big a change to how templates work. I don't know. I should probably
> write up an enhancement request on the subject.

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6148