On Sunday, 9 March 2014 at 17:27:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 3/9/14, 6:47 AM, "Marc Schütz" <schue...@gmx.net>" 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.
Such as giving up on that crappy language that keeps on
breaking their code.
Andrei
That was more about "if you are that crazy to even consider such
breakage, this is closer my personal perfection" than actual
proposal ;)
