Is std.array.replace supposed to work with char[]?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:10:28 -0500, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> On 2011-02-20 21:30, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 13:40:08 -0500, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I'm confused about how someone can implement a library like this.
>>> Every time I try to use D2 it's just a PITA to use. I've used D1 and
>>> Tango for several years and had no problem with that.
>>
>> Strings are a sore spot for me, I think the current implementation is a
>> hack which leaves much to be desired. However, it seems that Andrei
>> believes the current implementation is not only decent, but actually
>> better than any alternative.
>>
>>> I assume this has been discussed, did that resolve in any plans to
>>> solve this?
>>
>> I am, in my spare time, working on a way to represent strings that
>> allows strings to be what they are and arrays of chars or wchars to be
>> what they are. It is not finished yet, but I've put forth a couple
>> incomplete examples. Search for [review] on the D news group.
>>
>> Things have gotten quite more complex when I realized that dchar is
>> actually not the most natural "element" of a string, since a dchar
>> doesn't represent a visible character (or one that a human would
>> interpret as a single character) and also that the exact same string can
>> be sometimes represented by two distinct sequences of dchars. When I can
>> finish the proposed change, I will probably try integrating it with
>> Phobos to see how well it works.
>>
>> -Steve
>
> Oh, I remember that thread(s). It got so overly complicated so I stopped  
> reading it.

Yeah, UTF is so overly complicated, it's difficult to properly implement  
it.

-Steve