color lib

[Manu via Digitalmars-d]

On 10 October 2016 at 23:00, Andrea Fontana via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Monday, 10 October 2016 at 08:44:49 UTC, Manu wrote:
>
> From doc:
> colorFromString Create a color from a string. May be a hex color in the
> standard forms: (#/$)rgb/argb/rrggbb/aarrggbb May also be the name of any
> color from the Colors enum.
>
> It seems it reads just rgb. (+ enum)
>
> I think that:
> colorFromString("red");
> colorFromString!"rgb"("#3212ff");
> colorFromString!"bgra"("#ff1232dd");
>
> makes more sense.
>
> Andrea

Why? I see no value in that function being a template... It's not like
you can confuse "#FF0080" and "LightGoldenrodYellow". As far as I
know, there's no possible ambiguity in colour strings, so why make
them separate functions?