Text in D article

[Max Samuha]

On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 02:43:10 +1100, Daniel Keep
<daniel.keep.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
>Max Samuha wrote:
>> On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 15:59:33 +0100, Alexander Panek
>> <a.panek at brainsware.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> PDF would be great, too.
>>>
>>> Tydr Schnubbis wrote:
>>>> Daniel Keep wrote:
>>>>> Here's a draft of an article which, hopefully, will explain some of the
>>>>> details of how text in D works.  Any constructive criticism is welcomed,
>>>>> along with edits or corrections.
>>>>>
>>>> Any chance of an .rtf, .doc, or even .txt? :)
>> For those who is still on Windows :), thiere is a free and compact doc
>> viewer that supports the open office format
>> http://www.officeviewers.com/ 
>
>Hey, *I'm* still on Windows :P
>
>	-- Daniel

Daniel, I didn't intend to offend you, really. Sorry, if I did.

The article is great and useful. I would add a note for those coming
from C# (and Java?) that D strings are mutable and doing the following
is a bad idea:

class BlackBox
{
	private char[] _text;
	
	this()
	{
		_text = "object state";		
	}

	char[] text()
	{
		return _text; // should be 'return _text.dup' if you
don't want the user of the object to change the internal _text;
	}	
}

Or something like that.