On 10/28/11 4:41 AM, Christophe Travert wrote:
I definitely agree with you, but I have a piece of news for you :
The whole phobos alreaday treats strings as a dchar ranges, and IS
inefficient for processing strings.
The fact is: char[] is not char[] in phobos. It is Range!dchar. This is
aweful and schizophrenic, and also inefficient. The purpose was to allow
people to use strings without knowing anything about unicode.
It was to allow people who know Unicode to use strings without too much
arcana.
That is
why Jonathan proposed having a specific string structure to manipulate
strings without having to worry about unicode, just like how strings are
currently manipulated in phobos, and letting char[] be char[], and be as
efficient as they should be.
No need. Use
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/phobos/std_string.html#representation
I was not there when it was decided to treat strings as dchar ranges,
but now it is done. The only thing I can do is use ubyte[] instead of
char[] so that phobos treat them as proper arrays, and propose optimized
overloads for various phobos algorithm to make them as efficient as they
should be (which I didn't find the time to do yet).
What would you have done if you were there? What is your design of choice?
Andrei
