byLine/byLineCopy deprecation?

[bearophile via Digitalmars-d]

I have had few bugs caused by byLine not copying the line on
default. Now we have byLineCopy, but sometimes I forget to use
it. In D I prefer unsafe functions to be on request, and safe
ones by default.

Originally I suggested to give to byLine a boolean template
argument named "doCopy" that is true on default and can be set to
false for performance:

https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4474

So can we deprecate byLine and introduce something with a short
name that is safer and something with a longer name that is
faster (or probably better use just one function with the doCopy
boolean template argument set to true by default).

A possible name for such function is "byRow!(bool doCopy=true,
.....)" and then slowly deprecate byLine and byLineCopy.

Bye,
bearophile

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:49:05 +0000

Post by bearophile via Digitalmars-d
A possible name for such function is "byRow!(bool doCopy=true,
.....)" and then slowly deprecate byLine and byLineCopy.

i think it should be better to use less generic type as template
argument. something like `byRow!Copying.Yes`. it's unnecessary annoying
to remember if `true` means "do copying" or "don't do copying". ;-)
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