On 3/3/15 2:32 PM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
On Tuesday, March 03, 2015 08:50:35 Steven Schveighoffer via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
What is the type of char array holds why it does not matches char?
Because D is schizophrenic ;) Phobos considers char[] arrays not to be
arrays of char, only ranges of dchar. Unless you talk to the compiler,
where it happily treats char[] as an array.
I think that at this point, most of the core developers think that
auto-decoding was a mistake, but fixing it would definitely be a bit of a
mess, and whenever it comes up, Andrei complains that we need to focus on
other things and that we're blowing it out of proportion. :|
I think that the auto-decoding was well-intentioned and an interesting
experiment, but ultimately, it's causing too many problems...
Sure, but I think that for phobos to say you can't fill a large char[]
with a repeat of small char[], but you can fill a large int[] with a
repeat of small int[], is more of a problem than somehow fixing the
underlying situation.
Other algorithms treat char[] specially. fill should too.
-Steve
