On Monday, 10 March 2014 at 21:52:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 3/10/2014 2:09 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
What in my proposal makes you think you don't have unfettered
access? The
underlying immutable(char)[] representation is accessible. In
fact, you would
have more access, since phobos functions would then work with
a char[] like it's
a proper array.
You divide the D world into two camps - those that use 'struct
string', and those that use immutable(char)[] strings.
I would go so far as to say this is a good thing, as long as the
'struct string' is transparently the default.
If you want good unicode support that works in a sane and
relatively transparent manner, just write string, use literals as
normal etc.
If you want a normal array of characters, that behaves sanely and
consistently as an array, use char[] with relevant qualifiers.
