On Sunday, 9 March 2014 at 13:47:26 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
On Friday, 7 March 2014 at 15:03:24 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
2) It is regression back to C++ days of
no-one-cares-about-Unicode pain. Thinking about strings as
character arrays is so natural and convenient that if
language/Phobos won't punish you for that, it will be
extremely widespread.
Not with Nick Sabalausky's suggestion to remove the
implementation of front from char arrays. This way, everyone
will be forced to decide whether they want code units or code
points or something else.
Andrei has made it clear that the code breakage this would
involve would be unacceptable.
