Better lambdas!!!!!!!!!!

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Fri, 2015-09-11 at 11:32 +0000, ZombineDev via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 08:02:21 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-09-10 at 20:51 +0000, Adam D. Ruppe via 
> > Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > > […]
> > > 
> > > The string lambdas Phobos supports basically does this:
> > > 
> > > `b < a*b`
> > > 
> > > would work in there. These are falling out of favor with the 
> > > new syntax in the language, but they are still supported by 
> > > most the library.
> > 
> > And until some bugs get fixed, you have to use string functions 
> > in some places, you cannot use proper function literals :-(
> 
> Can you elaborate? Are those bugs logged somewhere?

For example https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5710

The affects a number of the std.parallelism functions :-(

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