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[Sergey Gromov]

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:10:38 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> Michel Fortin wrote:
>> On 2009-08-09 14:10:10 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu 
>> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> said:
>> 
>>>> 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.
>> 
>> And what is preventing the dream from comming true, I mean, the one 
>> about string functions? Is there someone who doesn't want this?
> 
> 1. Time. 2. It would break a lot of code that uses strings (I know, not 
> a very strong argument.) Time is the main issue.

std.string could stay as a compatibility wrapper around std.algorithm.
Though this puts even more stress on the "Time" concern.