Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > What can be done about that? I see a number of solutions: > > (a) Do not operate the change at all. > > (b) Operate the change and mention that in range algorithms you should > check hasLength and only then use "length" under the assumption that it > really means "elements count". > > (c) Deprecate the name .length for UTF-8 and UTF-16 strings, and define > a different name for that. Any other name (codeUnits, codes etc.) would > do. The entire point is to not make algorithms believe strings have a > .length property. > > (d) Have std.range define a distinct property called e.g. "count" and > then specialize it appropriately. Then change all references to .length > in std.algorithm and elsewhere to .count. > > What would you do? Any ideas are welcome. > > Andrei
I choose (b)
