On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 14:01:45 -0400, John Colvin
<john.loughran.col...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Monday, 10 March 2014 at 17:54:49 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:06:08 -0400, Brad Anderson <e...@gnuk.net> wrote:
It seems like this would be an even bigger breaking change than
Walter's proposal though (right or wrong, slicing strings is very
common).
You're the second person to mention that, I was not planning on
disabling string slicing. Just random access to individual chars, and
probably .length.
-Steve
How is slicing any better than indexing?
Because one can slice out a multi-code-unit code point, one cannot access
it via index. Strings would be horribly crippled without slicing. Without
indexing, they are fine.
A possibility is to allow index, but actually decode the code point at
that index (error on invalid index). That might actually be the correct
mechanism.
-Steve
