Chris Nicholson-Sauls Wrote: > > Granted LTR is common enough to be expectable and acceptable. To be > perfectly honest, I > don't believe I have *ever* even used wchar/wstring. Char/string gosh yes; > dchar/dstring > quite a bit as well, where I need the simplicity; but I've yet to feel much > need for the > "weirdo" middle child of UTF. > > I would argue that string ~ wstring returning string is fine, but would > suggest it be a > warning for those like myself who might have first guessed it would "upscale > to fit". > Just so long as the foreach(dchar;string) trick is still around, char/string > can cover an > awful lot of ground. > > All that said, though, I don't think I would ever use ""~wstring as a means > of conversion. > It just feels like "there wasn't any other way to do this, so here's a > cheap hack" -- > which just isn't the case.
Your overall reply well put. On last point: agree; cheap hacks should be avoided. cheers, Justin
