string types: const(char)[] and cstring

[Bill Baxter]

Marcin Kuszczak wrote:
> Derek Parnell wrote:
> 
>>> Under the new const/invariant/final regime, what are strings going to be
>>> ? Experience with other languages suggest that strings should be
>>> immutable.
>> We seem to have different experience. Most of the code I write deals with
>> changing strings - in other words, manipulating strings is very very
>> common in the sorts of programs I write.
>>
> 
> The same here. I don't have much experience with Java and really don't know
> why const strings are so usefull... 
> 
> Maybe someone could elaborate a little bit more?

Ditto here.  When I've used java I found it more annoying that strings 
were immutable than anything else.

--bb