On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:15:36 -0400, Jonathan M Davis <[email protected]>
wrote:
On 2011-06-20 10:43, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:23:22 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Technically you're right. Yet I think it's pretty widespread that a
sole
> char* means a zero-terminated string.
I think it's pretty widespread that you shouldn't be using
zero-terminated
strings ;)
But I suppose it makes sense that to can convert from a char[] to a char
*, and if it does, it doesn't hurt to do the safest thing. I think it
should be discouraged, however, in favor of doing toUTFz which is more
descriptive as a function name.
So, you're arguing that we should introduce toUTFz for converting
character
arrays to zero-terminated strings, and then have std.conv.to use it when
converting from character arrays to character pointers?
Exactly. The reason for to calling it is because that is the safest
option (albeit not completely safe).
-Steve
