To Walter, about char[] initialization by FF

Andrew Fedoniouk news at terrainformatica.com
Sat Jul 29 18:48:20 PDT 2006


"Walter Bright" <newshound at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:eagufo$2knt$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
> Andrew Fedoniouk wrote:
>> Element of UTF-8 sequence is an octet.  I think you should rename
>> 'char' type to 'octet' if D/Phobos intended to support only UTF-8.
>
> This was all hashed out years ago. It's too late to start renaming basic 
> types.

I am not asking to rename anything.

Could you please just remove this weird 0xFF initialization
for char arrays? ( as it was prior to .162 buld )

This is the whole point. If you will do this
then current char type can be used for
representation of single byte encodings as it stands -
character.

Andrew Fedoniouk.
http://terrainformatica.com





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