On 10/24/2012 01:07 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 00:28:28 Timon Gehr wrote:
The other valid opinion is that the 'mistake' is in Phobos because it
treats narrow character arrays specially.
If it didn't, then range-based functions would be useless for strings in most
cases, because it rarely makes sense to operate on code units.
Note that string is just a name for immutable(char)[]. It would have to
become a struct if random access was to be deprecated.
I think that Andrei was arguing for changing how the compiler itself handles
arrays of char and wchar so that they wouldn't have direct random access or
length anymore, forcing you to do something like str.rep[6] for random access
regardless of what happens with range-based functions.
- Jonathan M Davis
That idea does not even deserve discussion.
