bringToFront() and arrays of char

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday, December 14, 2012 00:27:39 Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> 12/13/2012 7:22 AM, Jonathan M Davis пишет:
> > On Wednesday, December 12, 2012 17:34:53 Ali Çehreli wrote:
> >> (There must be an easier way of doing that. :))
> > 
> > If you have a string that's really ASCII and you're _sure_ that it's only
> > ASCII, then I'd suggest simply casting it to immutable(ubyte)[] and
> > operating on that with all range based functions. That way, no decoding
> > occurs, and you don't have to dup the string. If you want, you could also
> > easily create a funtion called something like assumeASCII that did that
> > cast in order to make it more idiomatic (similar to
> > std.exception.assumeUnique).
> 
> Yup. Plus there is a not commonly known 'representation' function that
> does just that for (w|d|)string:
> 
> auto repro = lowercase.representation;
> //typeof(repro) should be immutable(ubyte)[]

Wow. Good to know about that one. I feel kind of stupid for not realizing that 
it was there given how much I've worked in std.string. And here I was doing 
that cast manually in some of my code recently and having to put comments to 
indicate why I was doing it. std.string.representation is much better.

- Jonathan M Davis