replaceFirst, findPieces, and takeExactly

[spir]

On 01/23/2011 12:40 AM, so wrote:
>> Yes, I'm absolutely in agreement with the naming (and thrilled too). I
>> imagine a putative user looking through std.algorithm ("let's see...
>> what find functions are out there?"). That makes findPieces easy to
>> get to, whereas "trisect" would be oddly situated in the alphabetic
>> list and oddly named enough to be virtually undiscoverable.
>
> If this is the reasoning. This is a split function, not a find.
> There will be a few more of these split functions i suppose and this is
> the reason of my proposal splitAt.
> It is in the definition of the function you quoted.
>
> "(Split) the string (at) the first occurrence of (sep)"
 >
> splitAt(string, sep)

+++

splitAt is simply a Good Name! (even better than "tripartite" ;-)
Also for finding it in list of funcs.

Denis
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