toString vs. toUtf8

Sean Kelly sean at f4.ca
Tue Nov 20 12:58:52 PST 2007


Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
> 
>> Christopher Wright wrote:
>>> class String {
>>>    char[] opImplicitCast () {}
>>>    wchar[] opImplicitCast () {}
>>>    dchar[] opImplicitCast () {}
>>> }
>>>
>>> String toString () {}
>>>
>>> How does that look?
>> Tango already has a String class with toUtf8, toUtf16, and toUtf32
>> member functions.  This was one of our original objections to the idea
>> of toString as a member function that must return a char[].  We will
>> have to rename the class to something else if this change goes through.
> 
> It is already renamed to Text.

Oops!



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