http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6232
--- Comment #3 from Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisp...@gmx.com> 2011-06-30 18:28:29 PDT --- Your suggestion doesn't help at all with remembering to use zero-terminated strings when calling C code. For that you have to remember that you need to do that and that toStringz is the function to use to get a zero-terminated string. Adding your example to toStringz's documenation wouldn't help anyone remember to use it. If anything is wrong with the type system, it's the fact that it implicitly converts arrays to pointers, but even if it required you to use the ptr property instead, people would still have to remember to use toStringz for strings. So, such a change to type system wouldn't help any. Are your suggestion only helps as far as the type system goes if all of the C functions in druntime or wherever use CcharPtr instead of char*, since if the function takes char*, you can still pass a string directly to them even if you have CcharPtr to use if you want to. So, I don't see how this suggestion helps much of anything. -- Configure issuemail: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
