On 10/1/2012 7:22 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
However, we can't require an import to use a bizarre specifier, and you can't link un@safe code to a specifier, so the zstr concept is far superior in requiring the user to know what he is doing, and having the compiler enforce that.
Yup.
Does it make sense for Phobos to provide such a shortcut in an obscure header somewhere? Like std.cstring? Or should we just say "roll your own if you need it"?
As a matter of principle, I really don't like gobs of Phobos functions that are literally one liners. Phobos should not become a mile wide but inch deep library of trivia. It should consist of non-trivial, useful, and relatively deep functions.
