On Wednesday, 29 October 2014 at 23:28:07 UTC, Justin Whear wrote:
Part of what readln does is *modify* the slice itself, not just
the
pointed-to
characters. In particular it alters the length member so that
you know
how much
input was actually read. This is also why the rvalue reference
shouldn't
work.
Remember, D chose not to repeat C's mistake of relying on null
terminators.
Nice, thanks for that. I wasn't aware the .length member was
changed, but I just verified it myself by surrounding the call
with some debug output. Sure enough, its length is 4096 before
the call, and a different length after (depending on what was
input).
