On Friday, May 18, 2012 11:18:46 Steven Schveighoffer wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2012 11:05:21 -0400, Christophe Travert > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Steven Schveighoffer" , dans le message (digitalmars.D:167556), a > > > >> toStringz can allocate a new block in order to ensure 0 gets added. > >> This > >> is ludicrous! > >> > >> You are trying to tell me that any time I want to call a C function > >> with a > >> string literal, I have to first heap-allocate it, even though I *know* > >> it's safe. > > > > How about "mystring\0".ptr ? > > AKA "mystring" :) > > I'm sorry, I don't see the reason to require this. All for the sake of > making "" a null slice. I find the net gain quite trivial.
And I find the net gain to be negative, since the fact that "" is non-null is _useful_. - Jonathan M Davis
