On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 01:23:57PM +0100, Robert M. Münch via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On 2019-12-23 15:05:20 +, H. S. Teoh said:
[...]
> > What are you planning to do with your strings?
>
> Pretty simple: Have user editable content that is rendered using
> different fonts supporting unic
On 2019-12-23 15:05:20 +, H. S. Teoh said:
On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 06:27:03PM +0100, Robert M. Münch via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
Want to add I'm talking about unicode strings.
Wouldn't it make sense to handle everything as UTF-32 so that
iteration is simple because code-point = code-uni
On 2019-12-22 18:45:52 +, Steven Schveighoffer said:
switch to using char[]. Unfortunately, there's a lot of code out there
that accepts string instead of const(char)[], which is more usable. I
think many people don't realize the purpose of the string type. It's
meant to be something that
On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 06:27:03PM +0100, Robert M. Münch via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> Want to add I'm talking about unicode strings.
>
> Wouldn't it make sense to handle everything as UTF-32 so that
> iteration is simple because code-point = code-unit?
>
> And later on, convert to UTF-16 or
On 12/22/19 9:15 AM, Robert M. Münch wrote:
I want to do all the basics mutating things with strings: append,
insert, replace
What is the D-ish way to do that since string is aliased
to immutable(char)[]?
switch to using char[].
Unfortunately, there's a lot of code out there that accepts st
Want to add I'm talking about unicode strings.
Wouldn't it make sense to handle everything as UTF-32 so that iteration
is simple because code-point = code-unit?
And later on, convert to UTF-16 or UTF-8 on demand?
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I want to do all the basics mutating things with strings: append,
insert, replace
What is the D-ish way to do that since string is aliased to immutable(char)[]?
Using arrays, using ~ operator, always copying, changing, combining my
strings into a new one? Does it make sense to think about redu
