On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 16:54:34 -0400, John Colvin
<[email protected]> wrote:
Of course that i has to be at the beginning of a code-point. Doesn't
seem like that useful a feature and potentially very confusing for
people who naively expect normal indexing.
What it would do is remove the confusion of is(typeof(r.front) !=
typeof(r[0]))
Naivety is to be expected when you have made your C-derived language's
default string type an encoded UTF8 array called char[]. It doesn't
magically make D programs UTF aware.
I would suggest that a lofty goal is for the string type to be completely
safe, and efficient, and only allow raw access via the .representation
member. But I don't think, given the current code base,
that we can achieve that in one proposal. It has to be gradual. This is a
first step.
-Steve
