On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Steven Schveighoffer <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2012 12:21:27 -0400, Gor Gyolchanyan < > [email protected]> wrote: > > >> if("" != []) assert("".length != 0); >> >> Will this fail? >> > > No. Ambiguities only come into play when you use 'is'. I highly > recommend not using 'is' for arrays unless you really have a good reason, > since two slices can be 'equal' but 'point at different instances'. > > For example: > > auto str = "abcabc"; > assert(str[0..3] == str[3..$]); // pass > assert(str[0..3] is str[3..$]); // fail > > which is very counterintuitive. > > -Steve > Doesn't assert("".length != 0) look extremely counter-intuitive? -- Bye, Gor Gyolchanyan.
