On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:43:20 -0400, Walter Bright
<newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
On 10/20/2011 9:06 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
It's this very problem that leads some people to argue that string
should be
its own type which holds an array of code units (which can be accessed
when
needed) rather than doing what we do now where we try and treat a
string as
both an array of chars and a range of dchars. The result is
schizophrenic.
Making such a string type would be terribly inefficient. It would make D
completely uncompetitive for processing strings.
I don't think it would. Do you have any proof to support this?
-Steve
