Am 02.10.2012 16:55, schrieb Regan Heath:
Recent discussions on the zero terminated string problems and inconsistency of string literals has me, again, wondering why D doesn't have a 'type' to represent C's zero terminated strings. It seems to me that having a type, and typing C functions with it would solve a lot of problems.
You have basically a type only used for 0-terminated strings, char*, in D you use normally string, and if you wanna represent binary data you use ubyte[], I've never used char* except for interfacing with C. I would prefer a library soulution, some kind of Struct which is implicitly convertable to char* (0-terminates) and also to string (not 0-terminated), not sure how to implement that though.