Should this work?

John Colvin john.loughran.colvin at gmail.com
Fri Jan 10 06:39:52 PST 2014


On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 05:28:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 1/9/14 6:00 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 01:34:46AM +0000, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> [...]
>>> Some code differences from the old days:
>>>
>>> * before: converting to and from string was in std.string. 
>>> Functions
>>> like toInt, toString, etc. Nowadays, this is all done with
>>> std.conv.to. The new way is way cool, but a newbie's first 
>>> place to
>>> look might be for std.string.toString rather than 
>>> std.conv.to!string.
>>
>> Right, so it should be mentioned in std.string.
>>
>> But probably your idea of more concept-oriented overview pages 
>> is
>> better. It doesn't seem like the right solution to just insert
>> hyperlinks to std.conv in every other Phobos module.
>
> A tutorial on string manipulation in D would be awesome.
>
> Andrei

That would be a very useful asset.


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