On 01/18/2012 08:31 PM, jdrewsen wrote:
Recently the encoding.safeDecode stopped working for some of my existing
code. This example outlines the issue:

import std.encoding;

void main(string[] args) {
auto e = EncodingScheme.create("utf-8");
auto a = new byte[100];
e.safeDecode(a);
}

Results in:

Error: function std.encoding.EncodingScheme.safeDecode (ref
const(ubyte)[] s) const is not callable using argument types (byte[])

Isn't this an error in the compiler?

/Jonas


No, this is a bugfix. The operation is unsound:

immutable(ubyte)[] foo(ref const(ubyte)[] s){
    auto r = new immutable(ubyte)[1];
    s = r;
    return r;
}

void main() {
    ubyte[] x;
    immutable(ubyte)[] y = foo(x);
    static assert(is(typeof(y[0])==immutable));
    auto oldy0 = y[0];
    x[0]=oldy0+1;
    assert(oldy0 == y[0]); // fail
}

The functionality is not going away; You will be able to use inout for the same purpose once my enhancement request gets implemented: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7105


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