Steven Schveighoffer: > wait, you thought char[] was an array? You poor poor soul ;) > > I predict we shall get 1-2 questions/claims of incredulity like this a > month until we get a real string type.
There's a need for both unicode strings, and simpler strings of 7 bit ASCII chars (both mutable and immutable. The immutable ones must not allow to change their length. Their hashing value may be computed lazily even for the immutable strings). A ubyte[] is not a good enough replacement for an ASCII string. Even a puny language like Python3 has recognized this. Bye, bearophile
