Future of string lambda functions/string predicate functions

[dennis luehring]

Am 06.08.2013 12:49, schrieb Jakob Ovrum:
> On Tuesday, 6 August 2013 at 10:22:53 UTC, dennis luehring wrote:
>> but normal lambdas do, with the big disadvantage of a little
>> bit more keyboard grinding :)
>
> It's a "big disadvantage" only if you're following the Perl
> school of programming :P
>

according to

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/707

there where errors and everything was just reverted (without further 
analysis?) - any idea about the current state