On Wednesday, 30 May 2018 at 21:27:44 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
On 05/30/2018 02:19 PM, Malte wrote:
Why does this code complain at the last line about a missing
[] operator overload?
auto buffer = new char[6];
auto chunked = buffer.chunks(3);
chunked[1][2] = '!';
Same happens with wchar.
Dchar and byte work as expected.
UTF-8 auto decoding strikes again. :)
Even though the original container is char[], passing it
through Phobos algorithms generated range of dchar. The thing
is, those dchar elements are generated (decoded from chars) "on
the fly" as one iterates over the range. Which means, there is
no array of dchar to speak of, so there is no random access.
Ali
I see. Not what I would have expected, but makes sense for people
working with UTF-8 strings.
Thanks for the fast answer.
