On 10/23/2012 05:58 PM, 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? :)
The other valid opinion is that the 'mistake' is in Phobos because it
treats narrow character arrays specially.
Note that string is just a name for immutable(char)[]. It would have to
become a struct if random access was to be deprecated.
