Re: Why char[] is not @nogc on this case

2018-05-24 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, May 25, 2018 00:09:28 SrMordred via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Friday, 25 May 2018 at 00:04:10 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> > On Thursday, 24 May 2018 at 23:55:24 UTC, SrMordred wrote:
> >> //Error: @nogc delegate onlineapp.main.__lambda1 cannot call
> >> non-@nogc function std.range.chain!(char[],
> >> char[]).chain.Result.front
> >>
> >> Why?
> >
> > phobos automatically decodes utf8 into dchars. This can throw a
> > new utf exception.
>
> Oh its the utf8 decode thing.
> I forgot about it.
> I thought that it only decodes when using strings and dchars.

It happens with any "narrow string" - i.e. any array of char or dchar. You
can test for it with std.traits.isNarrowString, whose current implementation
is:

enum bool isNarrowString(T) = isSomeString!T && !is(T : const dchar[]);

Basically, unless a range-based function goes out of its way to specialize
for narrow strings and avoids any decoding (and whether that makes any sense
depends on what the function does), it's going to treat any array of char or
wchar as a range of dchar and will throw a UTFException on invalid Unicode.

- Jonathan M Davis



Re: Why char[] is not @nogc on this case

2018-05-24 Thread SrMordred via Digitalmars-d-learn

Because arrays of char and wchar are treated as ranges of dchar.


That part that I didnt know, thanks! :)



Re: Why char[] is not @nogc on this case

2018-05-24 Thread SrMordred via Digitalmars-d-learn

On Friday, 25 May 2018 at 00:04:10 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

On Thursday, 24 May 2018 at 23:55:24 UTC, SrMordred wrote:
//Error: @nogc delegate onlineapp.main.__lambda1 cannot call 
non-@nogc function std.range.chain!(char[], 
char[]).chain.Result.front


Why?


phobos automatically decodes utf8 into dchars. This can throw a 
new utf exception.


Oh its the utf8 decode thing.
I forgot about it.
I thought that it only decodes when using strings and dchars.

Thanks!


Re: Why char[] is not @nogc on this case

2018-05-24 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, May 24, 2018 23:55:24 SrMordred via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> int[] a;
> int[] b;
>
> ()@nogc {
> foreach(v ; chain( a,b ) ) printf("%d\n", v);
> }();
>
> //Ok, everything fine;
>
> char[] a;
> char[] b;
>
> ()@nogc {
> foreach(v ; chain( a,b ) ) printf("%c\n", v);
> }();
>
> //Error: @nogc delegate onlineapp.main.__lambda1 cannot call
> non-@nogc function std.range.chain!(char[],
> char[]).chain.Result.front
>
> Why?

Because arrays of char and wchar are treated as ranges of dchar.
std.primitives.range.front and popFront call std.utf.decode and stride
respectively so that front returns dchar. decode (and possibly stride - I'd
have to check) throw a UTFException on invalid Unicode, and that means that
they allocate with the GC. If you want to avoid the auto-decoding, you have
to use something like std.string.representation or std.utf.byCodeUnit to
wrap the array of chars before passing them to any range-based functions.

- Jonathan M Davis



Re: Why char[] is not @nogc on this case

2018-05-24 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn

On Thursday, 24 May 2018 at 23:55:24 UTC, SrMordred wrote:
//Error: @nogc delegate onlineapp.main.__lambda1 cannot call 
non-@nogc function std.range.chain!(char[], 
char[]).chain.Result.front


Why?


phobos automatically decodes utf8 into dchars. This can throw a 
new utf exception.


Why char[] is not @nogc on this case

2018-05-24 Thread SrMordred via Digitalmars-d-learn

int[] a;
int[] b;

()@nogc {
   foreach(v ; chain( a,b ) ) printf("%d\n", v);
}();

//Ok, everything fine;

char[] a;
char[] b;

()@nogc {
   foreach(v ; chain( a,b ) ) printf("%c\n", v);
}();

//Error: @nogc delegate onlineapp.main.__lambda1 cannot call 
non-@nogc function std.range.chain!(char[], 
char[]).chain.Result.front


Why?