Lots of low hanging fruit in Phobos

[H. S. Teoh]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 01:26:46PM -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
> A major goal for D in the short term is to reduce reliance in Phobos
> on the GC. I was looking at std.string last night, and I noticed a
> couple things:
> 
> 1. The inputs are constrained to being strings. This is overly
> restrictive, the inputs should be InputRanges.
> 
> 2. The outputs should be a range, too. In fact, the string functions
> should become algorithms. Then they won't need to allocate any
> memory at all.
[...]

What about using output ranges?


T

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