Why is std.algorithm so complicated to use?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 09:28:51AM -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 7/10/12 2:50 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> >On 2012-07-09 22:16, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> >
> >>So foo is a range of strings, because each element of it is a
> >>string.  Then you want to chain a range of strings with a string,
> >>which is a range of dchar. That doesn't work, and I agree the error
> >>message should be more informative.
> >
> >Is that by design or something that can be fixed?
> 
> We can arrange things in the library that a custom message is issued,
> or in the compiler to do it once for all.

Please don't do it in the compiler. Custom messages should be in the
library. Tying the compiler to phobos is a bad idea; druntime should be
the only dependency.


> At any rate whenever there's an error pointing somewhere in the
> library's code that's an insufficient template constraint that should
> be fixed.
[...]

Yes.


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