Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > - make front() and back() for UTF-8 and UTF-16 automatically decode the > first and last Unicode character > > - make popFront() and popBack() skip one entire Unicode character > (instead of just one code unit) > > - alter isRandomAccessRange to return false for UTF-8 and UTF-16 strings > > - change hasLength to return false for UTF-8 and UTF-16 strings
These are all fine for a dedicated string type. They're horrible for generic arrays, for the following reasons: - They break generic code. - They make it impossible to manipulate an array of code units as an array of code units. -- Rainer Deyke - rain...@eldwood.com
