BetterC + startsWith

SrMordred patric.dexheimer at gmail.com
Sat Feb 22 05:36:24 UTC 2020


> The issue is that strings aren't input ranges in betterC [1], 
> due to autodecoding.
>
> Normally you'd work around this using std.utf.byCodeUnit, but 
> that's currently broken, because std.utf attempts to import 
> core.exception.UnicodeException from druntime at module scope 
> [2], causing any betterC program that imports std.utf to fail 
> compilation.
>
> So, for now, I think the best you can do is probably to 
> copy-paste byCodeUnit into its own source file, and use that 
> until std.utf is fixed.
>
> [1] https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20139
> [2] 
> https://github.com/dlang/phobos/blob/7a656e09d23507d0c404dabaa2c440a45e7c753d/std/utf.d#L65

Oh right, thanks!
Its the third time that autodecoding bite me in betterC and i 
always forgot of the possibility.


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