Good name for f.byLine.map!(x => x.idup)?
Jakob Ovrum
jakobovrum at gmail.com
Sun Mar 16 10:28:44 PDT 2014
On Sunday, 16 March 2014 at 16:58:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
> A classic idiom for reading lines and keeping them is
> f.byLine.map!(x => x.idup) to get strings instead of the buffer
> etc.
>
> The current behavior trips new users on occasion, and the idiom
> solving it is very frequent. So what the heck - let's put that
> in a function, expose and document it nicely, and call it a day.
>
> A good name would help a lot. Let's paint that bikeshed!
>
>
> Andrei
Maybe `byUniqueLine`.
We might also consider a higher order range (say, `byUnique`, in
the same vein) that GC-clones elements in some generic fashion,
then showing `f.byLine().byUnique()` front and centre in
`byLine`'s documentation.
Just a couple of half-assed ideas to get the ball rolling.
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