On Sunday, 9 March 2014 at 08:32:09 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:
On topic, I think D's implicit default decode to dchar is *infinity* times better than C++'s char-based strings. While imperfect in terms of grapheme, it was still a design decision made of win.
Care to argument?
I'd be tempted to not ask "how do we back out", but rather, "how can we take this further"? I'd love to ditch the whole "char"/"dchar" thing altogether, and work with graphemes. But that would be massive involvement.
As has been discussed, this does not make sense. Graphemes are also a concept which apply only to certain writing systems, all it would do is exchange one set of tradeoffs with another, without solving anything. Text isn't that simple.
