Phobos strings versus C++ Boost

[Brad Anderson]

On Saturday, 11 January 2014 at 20:36:31 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
> On 2014-01-11 08:50, Brad Anderson wrote:
>> The recent discussion got me wondering how Phobos stacked up
>> against the C++ Boost String Algorithms library.
>>
>> Some background on the design of the Boost library:
>> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/doc/html/string_algo/design.html
>>
>> TL;DR: It works somewhat like ranges.
>>
>> Google Spreadsheet with the comparison: http://goo.gl/Wmotu4
>
> toLower/Upper doesn't really work in place.

Yeah, it's kind of an argument for and against Phobos/D. InPlace
can't be truly inplace like Boost's is because we have actual
unicode support.