char[][] to std::vector<std::string> - DIP or dmd-issue?

[Dennis Ritchie via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 13 June 2015 at 15:45:34 UTC, anonymous wrote:
> Huh? You mean with string literals? That would be a rather 
> silly reason to avoid `char[]`. Please show an example of .dup 
> you'd like to avoid.

Yes, string literals.

>> I understand that the type of `string[]` to D is a simple data 
>> type than `char[][]`,
>
> Are you saying that `string[]` is simpler than `char[][]`? 
> That's not true: `string` is an alias for `immutable(char)[]`, 
> so `string[]` is the same as `immutable(char)[][]`.

On Monday, 18 May 2015 at 13:14:38 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> But really, a string is immutable. There's not a way around 
> that. A string is the most basic level of array primitive, not 
> even mutable arrays of non-char types have that, and it's an 
> annoyance. From there, you have to build the data out of ROM 
> into the heap.
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