Proposal: takeFront and takeBack

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On 04-Jul-12 16:40, Tobias Pankrath wrote:
>> You have to maintain 2 version of you algorithm. This is more work to
>> test, to maintain, and it is likely to introduce more bugs.
>>
>> More code == more bugs. More NPATH = more bugs and harder to test and
>> to maintain.
>>
>> In addition, this will result in practice in less generic code,
>> because one may not need the version of the algorithm without consume
>> primitives in his/her own code and not code it at all.
>
> Since the performance problem seems mainly to materialize for string
> processing code an alternative to this proposal would be to add those
> functions only for strings. As far as I heared, most of phobos is
> already special cased for string so the maintenance overhead wouldn't be
> too big.

It would be nice to think ahead and account things like compressed 
streams without extra state in range object. Anyway we are not about to 
see them soon.

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Dmitry Olshansky