Sorry if this has been asked/answered before but I've been out of the loop
for a while..
I was just thinking about the recent discussion on renaming toStringz and
I wondered why we need to explicitly call it at all. Why can't we have
the compiler call it automatically whenever we pass a string, or char[] to
an extern "C" function, where the parameter is defined as char*?
I believe some extern "C" functions are defined as taking ubyte* or byte*
instead of char*, but in those cases I believe they are 'buffers' and have
a supplied length as well, meaning there is no need for the trailing \0 in
any case.
I am probably missing something obvious, but it seems like it might work.
Side note.. It bothers me a little that 'char' means utf-8 codepoint in D,
and means unsigned byte in extern "C" definitions, but I can live with
that.
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