one step towards unification of std.algorithm and std.string

[Michel Fortin]

On 2009-12-30 13:45:02 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu 
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> said:

> I'm quite excited about this because it modularizes the entire case
> business, opens strings to many algorithms, and allows generalization of
> string algorithms.

Looks like a great idea... but it'd be clearer if named 
caseinsensitive(str), or perhaps foldcase(str) for shorter.

But whatever the name, this approach is great in that it also makes it 
easy to implement different collations.


> Well, that is until I hit http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3659
> 
> Any thoughts and ideas would be appreciated.

That's a bug. Get it fixed.


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