On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:10:28 -0500, Jacob Carlborg <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2011-02-20 21:30, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 13:40:08 -0500, Jacob Carlborg <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm confused about how someone can implement a library like this.
Every time I try to use D2 it's just a PITA to use. I've used D1 and
Tango for several years and had no problem with that.
Strings are a sore spot for me, I think the current implementation is a
hack which leaves much to be desired. However, it seems that Andrei
believes the current implementation is not only decent, but actually
better than any alternative.
I assume this has been discussed, did that resolve in any plans to
solve this?
I am, in my spare time, working on a way to represent strings that
allows strings to be what they are and arrays of chars or wchars to be
what they are. It is not finished yet, but I've put forth a couple
incomplete examples. Search for [review] on the D news group.
Things have gotten quite more complex when I realized that dchar is
actually not the most natural "element" of a string, since a dchar
doesn't represent a visible character (or one that a human would
interpret as a single character) and also that the exact same string can
be sometimes represented by two distinct sequences of dchars. When I can
finish the proposed change, I will probably try integrating it with
Phobos to see how well it works.
-Steve
Oh, I remember that thread(s). It got so overly complicated so I stopped
reading it.
Yeah, UTF is so overly complicated, it's difficult to properly implement
it.
-Steve
