Re: Ascii string literal.
On Saturday, 7 May 2016 at 01:37:30 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: In general, it's better to use representation than to cast, because representation gets the constness right, whereas if you cast, there's always the risk that you won't. Yeah, if it is a general thing, but here it is a simple function statically typed to string...
Re: Ascii string literal.
On Fri, 06 May 2016 21:57:22 + "Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn" wrote: > On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 21:39:35 UTC, Anonymouse wrote: > > Is this different from what std.string.representation does? > > No, it does the same thing, but with your own function the > intention may be clearer (or you could do a template to avoid any > function or custom types too) In general, it's better to use representation than to cast, because representation gets the constness right, whereas if you cast, there's always the risk that you won't. - Jonathan M Davis
Re: Ascii string literal.
On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 21:39:35 UTC, Anonymouse wrote: Is this different from what std.string.representation does? No, it does the same thing, but with your own function the intention may be clearer (or you could do a template to avoid any function or custom types too)
Re: Ascii string literal.
On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 20:29:35 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 20:01:27 UTC, Alexandru Ermicioi wrote:
Is it possible somehow to convert implicitly a string literal
Not implicitly (well, unless you just use string, ascii is a
strict subset of utf-8 anyway), but you could do it explicitly
easily.
immutable(ubyte)[] ascii(string s) { return
cast(typeof(return)) s; }
Is this different from what std.string.representation does?
Re: Ascii string literal.
On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 20:01:27 UTC, Alexandru Ermicioi wrote:
Is it possible somehow to convert implicitly a string literal
Not implicitly (well, unless you just use string, ascii is a
strict subset of utf-8 anyway), but you could do it explicitly
easily.
immutable(ubyte)[] ascii(string s) { return cast(typeof(return))
s; }
Then use it like
ascii("your string")
or make it a template and use ascii!"your string" or "your
string".ascii whatever.
You could (and imo should!) also make a struct to hold the new
type.
