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[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Michel Fortin wrote:
> On 2009-08-09 11:10:48 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> said:
> 
>>> It's also arguable that all functions in std.string should take
>>> const(char)[]. Or, you know, const(T)[], since D supports encodings
>>> other than UTF-8, despite what std.string leads you to believe.
>>
>> Yah, I think they should all be parameterized so they can work with 
>> various character widths and even encodings.
> 
> But shouldn't they work with *ranges* in general, a string being only a 
> specific case?

That's true as well! In my dreams, me and the famous actress... oh wait, 
wrong dream. In my dreams, I eliminate std.string and put all of its 
algorithms, properly generalized, in std.algorithm, to work on more than 
just arrays, and more than just characters.

Andrei