On 16-05-2012 18:12, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Steven Schveighoffer <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2012 10:04:50 -0400, Gor Gyolchanyan <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Steven Schveighoffer <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>wrote: I don't see a "problem" anywhere. The current system is perfect for what it needs to do. Aside from the string problem the very existence of this debate exposes a fundamental flaw in the entire software engineering industry: heavy usage of ancient crap. If some library is so damned hard to refresh, then something's terribly wrong with it. It's about damned time ancient libraries are thrown away. It's quite difficult to "throw out" OS libraries that you need ;) printf is hardly the only C interface that requires null-terminated strings. D is a pragmatic language, not an ideological one. -Steve Dear Steven and Alex. By no means, I say, that every ancient technology is to be thrown out at once. That's a technological suicide. What I mean, that knowing, that the technology is ancient, we should at least put some effort to gradually move away from it. If it needs to be done - it needs to be done. If it happens to be expensive to do - oh, well. I understand, that the human resources are limited, but hanging on ancient technology for _too_ long is a death wish for any new technology. -- Bye, Gor Gyolchanyan.
Yes, but the thing is, throwing out null-terminated strings is not something you do gradually - you have to do it from one day to another. It's such a simple feature that you either have it or you don't.
-- Alex Rønne Petersen [email protected] http://lycus.org
