On Tuesday, 2 July 2013 at 11:33:16 UTC, Michal Minich wrote:
char[] str = "abc".dup;
Thanks, that is workaround I didn't know about.
I'm really interested about reasons why it doesn't works
(without dup/cast). At some point it had to be disabled. But I
really cannot find a reason why that would be useful.
It is not a workaround but an expected approach. You are trying
to get a mutable slice from an immutable array. There is no way
this can be legal. And allowing mutable string literals just asks
for trouble:
char[] str1 = "abc";
char[] str2 = "abc";
str1[0] = 'x';
assert(str2 == "abc"); // pass of fail?
Please note that this works:
char[3] str = "abc";
Here literal data is copied to a static array and concerns that
matter with a slice are not valid anymore.
