Why is phobos so wack?
FoxyBrown via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Jul 9 05:56:55 PDT 2017
import string.
...
return str.join(" ");
gives
Error: template std.array.join cannot deduce function from
argument types !()(string, string), candidates are:
\..\..\src\phobos\std\array.d(1591): std.array.join(RoR,
R)(RoR ror, scope R sep) if (isInputRange!RoR &&
isInputRange!(Unqual!(ElementType!RoR)) && isInputRange!R &&
is(Unqual!(ElementType!(ElementType!RoR)) ==
Unqual!(ElementType!R)))
\..\..\src\phobos\std\array.d(1668): std.array.join(RoR,
E)(RoR ror, scope E sep) if (isInputRange!RoR &&
isInputRange!(Unqual!(ElementType!RoR)) && is(E :
ElementType!(ElementType!RoR)))
\..\..\src\phobos\std\array.d(1754):
std.array.join(RoR)(RoR ror) if (isInputRange!RoR &&
isInputRange!(Unqual!(ElementType!RoR)))
simply trying to join a string[] with a separator. I tend to get
these types of errors when doing simple things in D. Virtually
every other programming language just works as expected. You can
pretty much just jump in there and pretty much guess at the
function name, the arguments, and it will work. In Phobos, seems
like it follows an anti-pattern. You always end up having to look
at documentation unless you are familiar enough with D and use it
in a regular basis to remember its quirks and odd behavior. Seems
that the same functions are defined differently in different
modules and the modules not always the expected ones. (strip is
another one that throws me for a loop. I always try trim first...
that is what everyone else uses, yeah, it's just a name, but then
why strip?)
Phobos seems to be rather unorganized and not logically put
together. Any hopes of this ever getting fixed or do I need to
start putting together my own library?
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