On 2014-09-15 16:45, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 9/15/14, 2:50 AM, monarch_dodra wrote:
- Does not provide Forward range iteration that I can find. This makes
it unuseable for algorithms:
find (myRCString, "hello"); //Nope
Also, adding "save" to make it forward might not be a good idea, since
it would also mean it becomes an RA range (which it isn't).
If we move forward with this type, traits will recognize it as
isSomeString.
- Does not provide any way to (even "unsafely") extract a raw array.
Makes it difficult to interface with existing functions. It would also
be important for "RCString aware" functions to be properly optimized (eg
memchr for searching etc...)
I think a @system unsafeSlice() property would be needed indeed.
- No way to "GC-dup" the RCString. giving "dup"/"idup" members on
RCstring, for when you really just need to revert to pure un-collected
GC.
Nice. But then I'm thinking, wouldn't people think .dup produces another
RCString?
Yes, most likely. How about "gcDup" or something like that.
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/Jacob Carlborg
