[phobos] std.ctype vs std.string

[David Nadlinger]

On 5/23/11 7:25 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> Would anyone be opposed to my moving the pieces of std.string which are
> similar to std.ctype's functionality (hexdigits, letters, whitespace, iswhite,
> etc.) into std.ctype and fixing the std.ctype functions so that they're names
> are properly camelcased and return bool (obviously, I'd leave in the old stuff
> as scheduled for deprecation)?

I haven't really thought about what would be the cleanest solution, but 
I agree that the current state is quite a mess. You might want to take 
std.uni in consideration as well, which contains some lonely Unicode 
character classification functions.

David