On Friday, 21 March 2014 at 13:33:21 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Friday, 21 March 2014 at 13:27:04 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> On Friday, 21 March 2014 at 13:24:50 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>>> On Friday, 21 March 2014 at 12:55:09 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>>> What's the purpose of "tee", is it the same as "tap"? "tap" in Ruby just returns the receiver after executing a block. This would be the implementation in D:
>>>
>>> Yeah "tee" is a horrible name, no chance I would have guess what it means just by the name. "tap" is much better.
>>
>> I think it's meant to mimic the UNIX command with the same name? If you know about the command, the function's purpose seems obvious.
>
> ...and has pretty much nothing in common with it!

Why do you think so?

range
.filter!(s => s.canFind("foo"))
.tee!writeln
...

is equivalent to

cat input         \
 | grep foo       \
 | tee /dev/pts/N \
 | ...