On 10/23/12 12:35 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 10/23/12 11:58 AM, mist wrote:
On Tuesday, 23 October 2012 at 15:55:23 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 10/23/12 11:36 AM, mist wrote:
Was thinking on this topic after seeing this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13014999/cannot-slice-taker-from-std-range-in-d
Still can't understand rationale here. Why native slicing / random
access is allowed for narrow strings, but trait explicitly negates
this?
Historical mistake.
Andrei
Is string random access gonna be deprecated some day then or this is
considered a mistake we need to get used to? :)
Walter is unconvinced it's a mistake, which doesn't make it any easier.
If I had my way, I'd require people to write str.rep[6] to access the
sixth byte in the representation of a UTF-8 or UTF-16 string. It would
make D's strings from great to indistinguishable from perfect.
Andrei
s/byte/code unit/
