std.compress

[Walter Bright]

On 6/4/2013 11:04 AM, John Colvin wrote:
> On Tuesday, 4 June 2013 at 17:50:47 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> What value does a function which just passes an alias to another one add?
>
> A unified interface called "compress" that takes a compression function as an
> alias (with e.g. lzwCompress as a default) seems like a nicer way of working,
> seeing as people don't necessarily care/know about which algorithm they're
> using, they just want to compress something a bit.
>
> Also, it would be cool if a range could remember which algorithm it was
> compressed with (as it's type? I.e. LzwRange), so a generic function "expand"
> could call the appropriate ***Expand

What is the improvement of typing:

    compress(lzw)

over:

    lzwCompress()

?