DMD 0.148 - regular expressions

[Walter Bright]

"Johan Granberg" <lijat.meREM at OVEgmail.com> wrote in message 
news:dtsu0h$21ct$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
> Why not do like this instead?
>
> if (m;"regex" ~~ "string")
> m. ...
>
> That would get rid of the implicit declaration of _match and just like 
> usual with statements the result of ~~ could bee ignored.

Because it doesn't offer enough utility over the function version to justify 
it.