On 3/9/2014 11:27 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
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?
It's simple: Breaking things on all non-English languages is worse than
breaking things on non-western[1] languages. Is still breakage, and that
*is* bad, but there's no question which breakage is significantly larger.
[1] (And yes, I realize "western" is a gross over-simplification here.
Point is "one working language" vs "several working languages".)
