On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 04:21:08PM +0000, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On Thursday, 16 March 2017 at 16:13:33 UTC, Carl Sturtivant wrote: > > string ans = md5Of(arg).toHexString(); > > That is a major D design flaw biting you the same way it has bitten so > many others. > > See the red box in my documentation fork: > > http://dpldocs.info/experimental-docs/std.digest.digest.toHexString.2.html > > toHexString returns a static array... on the stack. Then the stupid > language not only implicitly casts it to immutable, it also implicitly > slices it, giving you a reference to mutable, temporary data > pretending to be permanent, immutable data.
WAT?! Why does the language allow implicitly casting from static array to string?! How is that even remotely correct? Is there a bug filed for this? T -- To provoke is to call someone stupid; to argue is to call each other stupid.
