New string implementation: dstring 1.0

[Olli Aalto]

Chris Miller wrote:
> Check out the FAQ at http://www.dprogramming.com/dstring.php and give it 
> a spin.
> Documentation is online at 
> http://www.dprogramming.com/docs/dstring/dstring.html
> 
> Let me know what you think!

Hi!

The dstring module is very nice, but it's lacking one thing that I, at 
least personally, am gotten used to. It's that you cannot assign a null 
to it.

string str = null;

or

string getAStringWhichMightBeNull() { return null; }

It's not a big thing but makes using the string a bit clumsy.

One another thing. Not necessarily dstring's fault, but I tried 
compiling it with C::B in release mode. I had set every compiler option 
available for the release build and when I compiled I started getting 
errors about functions not returning any values. They were functions 
which had switches, which default cases had return statements.
I don't know which flag causes this behavior, but a debug build works 
just fine.

O.