Is str ~ regex the root of all evil, or the leaf of all good?

[Denis Koroskin]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:23:13 +0300, Bill Baxter <wbaxter at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't like the syntax I saw somewhere earlier in the thread of
>     0..iter.captures
>
> .captures looks like it should be a set of captures, not a count.
>
> This is a need that comes up again and again -- querying the size, or
> count, or length of some sub-element like this -- so I think it would
> greatly benefit Phobos to choose some less ambiguous convention and
> stick to it.   Like  nCaptures, numCaptures, capturesLength, etc.
>
> ---bb

Agree. I thought that iter.captures is a set (range) of captures.