Phobos PR: `call` vs. `bindTo`

Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Aug 5 19:51:45 PDT 2014


On 6/08/2014 7:29 a.m., H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> There are currently two Phobos PR's that implement essentially the same
> functionality, but in slightly different ways:
>
> 	https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1255
> 	https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2343
>
>>From the discussion on Github, it seems to me that we should only
> introduce one new function rather than two similar but
> not-quite-the-same functions. Since the discussion seems stuck on
> Github, I thought I should bring it here to the larger community to see
> if we can reach a consensus (who am I kidding... but one can hope :-P)
> on:
>
> (1) What name to use (bring on the bikeshed rainbow)
> (2) Exactly what functionality should be included.
> (3) Which PR to merge.
>
>
> T

I'm not convinced that either PR adds anything of use. As noted unaryFun 
can be used identically to bindTo. So its wasted code in my opinion.


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