On 11/11/2010 13:37, Sean Kelly wrote: > Rainer Deyke Wrote: >> >> As it turns out, the joining of adjacent strings is a critical >> feature. Consider the following: f("a" "b"); f("a" ~ "b"); These >> are /not/ equivalent. > > I would hope that the const folding mechanism would combine these at > compile-time.
Of course it would. That's not the issue. The issue is, is a string that's generated at compile-time guaranteed to be zero-terminated, the way a string literal is? Even if the same operation at run-time would /not/ generate a zero-terminated string? -- Rainer Deyke - rain...@eldwood.com