On Monday, 10 March 2014 at 20:52:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 3/10/2014 1:36 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
What strings are already is a user-defined type,
No, they are not.
but with horrible enforcement.
With no enforcement, and that is by design.
Keep in mind that D is a systems programming language, and that
means unfettered access to strings.
I don't see how this proposal would limit that access. The raw
immutable(char)[] is still there, ready to be used just as always.
It seems like it fits the D ethos: safe and reasonably fast by
default, unsafe and lightning fast on request. (Admittedly a bad
wording, sometimes the fastest can still be safe)
