Timon Gehr , dans le message (digitalmars.D:144889), a écrit : > unicode natively. Yet the 'D strings are strange and confusing' argument > comes up quite often on the web.
Well, I think they are. The ptr+length stuff is amasing, but the behavior of strings in phobos is weird. mini-quiz: what should std.range.drop(some_string, 1) do ? hint: what it actually does is not what the documentation of phobos suggests*... Strings are array of char, but they appear like a lazy range of dchar to phobos. I could cope with the fact that this is a little unexpected for beginners. But well, that creates a lot of exceptions in phobos, like the fact that you can't even copy a char[] to a char[] with std.algorithm.copy. And I don't mention all the optimization that are not/cannot be performed for those strings. I'll just remember to use ubyte[] wherever I can... * Please, someone just adds in the documentation of IsSliceable that narrow strings are an exception, like it was recently added to hasLength. -- Christophe
