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

[anonymous via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 13 June 2015 at 17:02:06 UTC, Dennis Ritchie wrote:
> On Saturday, 13 June 2015 at 16:20:46 UTC, anonymous wrote:
[...]
>> Yeah, that would be neat. But typing out ".dup" isn't that 
>> bad, and converting a `string[]` to a `char[][]` is simple:
>>     import std.conv: to;
>> auto a = ["foo"].to!(char[][]);
>
> Yes, but it is not suitable for multidimensional array of 
> strings.

Please show how it is not. Seems to work just fine.

[...]
> And why in C++ is running `std::vector<std::string>` ?
> Really in D can not do something like that?
>
> Maybe a new type will not solve anything, but there should be 
> other ways to do in D analogue strings of C++.

Your definitions of "something like that" and "other ways" are 
unreasonably narrow, in my opinion. Typing out ".dup" is D's way 
to do mutable strings. You just don't like it.