Bill Baxter wrote:
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu
<seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote:
Bill Baxter wrote:
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Jeremie Pelletier <jerem...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
303 pages and counting!
Andrei
Soon the PI level, or at least 10 times PI!
A hundred even. ;-)
Coming along. I'm writing about strings and Unicode right now. I was
wondering what people think about allowing concatenation (with ~ and ~=) of
strings of different character widths. The support library could do all of
the transcoding.
(I understand that concatenating an array of wchar or char with a dchar is
already in bugzilla.)
So a common way to convert wchar to char might then become ""~myWcharString?
That seems kind of odd.
Well, I guess. In particular, to me it's not clear what type we should
assign to a concatenation between a string and a wstring. With ~=, it's
much easier...
Just using something like
to!(char[])(myWcharString) seems less goofy to me.
Problem is, an append + one transcoding requires two allocations. We
could always define routines in std.string or std.utf:
append(s, ws); // s ~= ws
but really it's quite unambiguous what ~= should do. A nod from the
language is a nice touch.
Andrei
