Re: string is rarely useful as a function argument

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/31/11 2:44 PM, Michel Fortin wrote:

But will s.raw.popFront() also pop a single unit from s? "raw" would
need to be defined as a reinterpret cast of the reference to the char[]
to do what I want, something like this:

ref ubyte[] raw(ref char[] s) { return *cast(ubyte[]*)&s; }

The current std.string.representation doesn't do that at all.

You just found a bug!

Andrei