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

Regan Heath regan at netmail.co.nz
Tue Mar 18 04:55:40 PDT 2014


On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 16:58:38 -0000, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> 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!

Why not simply "lines".

foreach (line; file.lines)
   ...

R

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