As a Windows programmer using D, I find a number of questionable
things with D's focus on using string everywhere. It's not a huge
deal to add in UTF-8 to UTF-16 mapping in certain areas, but when
it comes to working with a lot of data and Windows API calls, the
less needless conversions the
On Friday, October 24, 2014 21:06:37 dcrepid via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
As a Windows programmer using D, I find a number of questionable
things with D's focus on using string everywhere. It's not a huge
deal to add in UTF-8 to UTF-16 mapping in certain areas, but when
it comes to working
On Friday, 24 October 2014 at 22:53:15 UTC, Jonathan M Davis via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
Also, given how DirEntry works internally, I'd definitely be
inclined to argue
that it would be too much of a mess to support wstring unless
it's by simply
converting the name to a wstring when
On Saturday, October 25, 2014 01:11:26 dcrepid via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
On Friday, 24 October 2014 at 22:53:15 UTC, Jonathan M Davis via
Anyway, some things to think about.
DirEntry and all of the related functions and types would need quite a bit of
rewriting to do what you're
