On 06/27/2012 05:54 PM, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisp...@gmx.com <mailto:jmdavisp...@gmx.com>> wrote:_All_ strings are considered to be ranges of dchar. That's why string and wstring are not random access ranges and hasLength is false for them. - Jonathan M Davis So why is the type of a string literal _string_ by default?
Because it is a _string_ literal. If you are asking why utf-8 is the default, that is because it is the most space efficient, backwards- compatible to ASCII, and because random access to a string is rarely required. ? Isn't it confusing when dealing with ranges?
-- Bye, Gor Gyolchanyan.
Why would it be?
