grauzone <n...@example.net> wrote:
Change the type of string literals from char[] (or whatever the string
type is in D2) to a wrapper struct defined in object.d:
struct string {
char[] raw;
}
Now string.length is invalid, and you don't have to do weird stuff as in
(b) or (c).
From here on, you could do 2 things:
1. add accessor methods to string like string classes in other languages
do
2. leave the wrapper struct as it is (just add the required range foo),
and require the user to use either a) the range API (with utf-8 decoding
etc.) or b) access the raw "byte" string with string.raw.
This seems to me a job for @disable:
struct string {
immutable( char )[] payload;
alias payload this;
@disable int length( ) { return 0; }
}
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Simen
