On Monday, 13 January 2014 at 23:10:04 UTC, TheFlyingFiddle wrote:
I'm curious, why is the .front property of narrow strings of
type dchar?
And not the underlying character type for the string.
The root of the issue is that string literals containing
characters which do not fit into signle byte are still converted
to char[] array. This is strictly speaking not type safe because
it allows to reinterpret 2 or 4 byte code unit as sequence of
characters of 1 byte size. The string type is in some sense
problematic in D. That's why the fact that .front returns dhcar
is a way to correct the problem, it is not an attempt to
introduce confusion.
