Rainer Deyke wrote:
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.
Arrays of char and wchar are not quite generic - they are definitely UTF
strings.
Andrei
