String lambdas

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 26 April 2016 at 17:58:22 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/3882
>
> I just closed with some regret a nice piece of engineering. 
> Please comment if you think string lambdas have a lot of 
> unexploited potential.
>
> One thing we really need in order to 100% replace string 
> lambdas with lambdas is function equivalence. Right now we're 
> in the odd situation that SomeTemplate!((a, b) => a < b) has 
> distinct types, one per instantiation.
>
>
> Andrei

This can be worked around by defining a less function and using 
it here. This, however, runs into some subtleties because 
functions and functions aren't the same thing in D (Confusing ? 
You bet it is !).