On 12/29/2011 07:53 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 12/28/2011 10:08 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
The only solution is to explain Walter no other programmer in the
world codes
UTF like him. Really. I emulate that sometimes (learned from him) but
I see code
from hundreds of people day in and day out - it's never like his.
Once we convince him, he'll be like "ah, I see what you mean.
Requiring .rep is
awesome. Let's do it."
If that ever happens, I owe you a beer. Maybe two!
Maybe it's hubris, but I think D nails what a string type should be. I'm
extremely reluctant to mess with its success. It strikes the right
balance between aesthetics, efficiency and utility.
I fully agree. If I had to design an imperative programming language,
this is how its strings would work.
C++11 and C11 appear to have copied it.
