Good name for f.byLine.map!(x => x.idup)?

Joseph Cassman jc7919 at outlook.com
Sun Mar 16 23:41:10 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

`f.lines` mentioned in a couple other posts seems straightforward 
and easy to remember.

Joseph


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