On Monday, 28 March 2016 at 22:43:26 UTC, Anon wrote:
On Monday, 28 March 2016 at 22:34:31 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:void main () { import std.range.primitives; char[] val = ['1', '0', 'h', '3', '6', 'm', '2', '8', 's']; pragma(msg, ElementEncodingType!(typeof(val))); pragma(msg, typeof(val.front)); }prints char dchar Why?Unicode! `char` is UTF-8, which means a character can be from 1 to 4 bytes. val.front gives a `dchar` (UTF-32), consuming those bytes and giving you a sensible value.
But the value fits into a char; a dchar is a waste of space. Why on Earth would a different type be given for the front value than the type of the elements themselves?
