On Thursday, 26 May 2016 at 17:45:15 UTC, Xinok wrote:
On Thursday, 26 May 2016 at 16:11:22 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
I've been working on RCStr (endearingly pronounced "Our
Sister"), D's up-and-coming reference counted string type. The
goals are:
...
I don't know how practical this would be, but if at all
feasible, I think one of the goals should be to have a common
interface/primitives with regular strings so we can write
generic functions which accept both native strings and RCStr.
Great news!
I think one can't stress this enough: If you want RCStr to be
adapted it has to be a drop-in replacement for string.
Maybe we can bundle the transition from auto-decoding with the
adaption to a RCString. There was the proposal of having String
without auto-decoding for this migration.
