Jeremie Pelletier wrote:
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Walter: what will the string types be aliased to now: still immutable(char)[]
or immutable(char)[new]?
I think it would be best to have them use the array [new] type.
It would be more efficient to cut out this middleman for things that
aren't going to change the length. Which means most things that operate
on the string type (and similarly wstring/dstring), since these types
are designed to be immutable. The change to T[] that's part of this
plan would take it a stage further by making the length immutable as well.
Functions which do not modify the string length can mark the string
as an in parameter, and immutable(char)[] should be castable to
const(immutable(char)[new]) in such cases to still allow slices to be
passed.
The conversion would create an extra memory allocation.
Stewart.
