std.string.toString(char*) little nuisance

[Frits van Bommel]

Tom wrote:
> A question,
> 
> shouldn't be documented on the 'std.string.toString(char*)', that the 
> d-string returned shares the same buffer as the input c-string?
> 
> I've spent some (too much) time debugging to find out why the heck all 
> my strings were messing up... now I know.
> 
> Mentioning this on the docs could have been of so much help, it's not 
> that obvious!

I think it's pretty obvious if you read the first paragraph of 
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/phobos/std_string.html, and consider that a 
char* c-string is also a 'string' as described in that bit of text. It's 
not modified, so a slice of the original is returned (as a D char[]).

Remember: don't just read the function description, the module 
description may contain information that applies to all (or a lot of) 
the functions in a module.