Narrow string is not a random access range

[Simen Kjaeraas]

On 2012-41-24 01:10, Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 23 October 2012 at 23:07:28 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> I think that Andrei was arguing for changing how the compiler itself  
>> handles arrays of char and wchar so that they wouldn't
>
> As I said last time this came up, we could actually do this today  
> without changing the compiler. Since string is a user defined type  
> anyway, we could just define it differently.
>
> http://arsdnet.net/dcode/test99.d
>
> I'm pretty sure that changes to Phobos are even required. (The reason I  
> called it "String" there instead of "string" is simply so it doesn't  
> conflict with the string in object.d)


As long as typeof("") != String, this is not going t work:

auto s = "";

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Simen