std.compress

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 6/5/13 4:29 PM, Idan Arye wrote:
> On Wednesday, 5 June 2013 at 19:47:57 UTC, Brad Roberts wrote:
>> On 6/5/13 12:34 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> On 6/5/13 2:26 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday, 5 June 2013 at 17:36:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>>> Right now we have joiner(), which given several ranges of T, offers a
>>>>> range of T. Developing along that idea, we should have two opposite
>>>>> functions: itemize() and collect().
>>>>
>>>> collect() is sometimes used as the name for map() in some languages
>>>> (e.g., Ruby, Smalltalk). I don't think it's a problem but maybe a note
>>>> in the documentation would be warranted to point people to map.
>>>> Alternatively it could be called something like bundle or parcel.
>>>
>>> Love bundle/parcel! Probably bundle more because it's more obvious
>>> it's a verb.
>>>
>>> Andrei
>>
>> Well, both bundle and parcel can be both nouns and verbs.
>
> We already have that function and it's called `chunks`:
> http://dlang.org/phobos/std_range.html#chunks

That's different because it chunks in-place, whereas bundle() would use 
its own buffer.

Andrei