On 12/28/11 11:36 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 12/28/2011 8:32 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Thursday, 29 December 2011 at 04:17:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
If we have two facilities (string and e.g. String) we've lost. We'd
need to
slowly change the built-in string type.
Have you actually tried to do it?
I've seen the damage done in C++ with multiple string types. Being able
to convert from one to the other doesn't help much.
This.
The only solution is to explain Walter no other programmer in the world
codes UTF like him. Really. I emulate that sometimes (learned from him)
but I see code from hundreds of people day in and day out - it's never
like his.
Once we convince him, he'll be like "ah, I see what you mean. Requiring
.rep is awesome. Let's do it."
Andrei
