New string implementation: dstring 1.0

[Chris Miller]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:30:48 -0400, Olli Aalto <olli.aalto at cardinal.fi>  
wrote:

> 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;

I don't think this is possible.
The string is also automatically initialized to an empty/null string.

>
> or
>
> string getAStringWhichMightBeNull() { return null; }

There is string(), such as:
    string mystring = string();
or:
    myfunction(string());

>
> 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.

I'm only getting this when using -w to get DMD to output warnings. I think  
DMD's warnings are terrible and I never use or consider them. Please don't  
use this switch.