On 2014-03-07 04:17:34 +0000, Walter Bright said:
On 3/6/2014 7:59 PM, bearophile wrote:
Walter Bright:
I understand this all too well. (Note that we currently have a different
silent problem: unnoticed large performance problems.)
On the other hand your change could introduce Unicode-related bugs in future
code (that the current Phobos avoids) (and here I am not talking about code
breakage).
This comes up repeatedly as justification for D trying to hide the
UTF-8 nature of strings that I discussed upthread.
To my mind it's like trying to pretend that floating point doesn't have
roundoff issues, integers have infinite range, memory is infinite, etc.
That has a place in other languages, but not in a systems/native
language.
Is it possible to add a warning notice when .front() is used on char?
I would say fix it now, add a warning, and then remove the warning
later.
-S.
