Change representation of dynamic arrays?

[Anders F Björklund]

Walter Bright wrote:

> What does this break?
> 
> 1) Passing dynamic arrays to printf as in:
> 
>     printf("my string is %*.s\n", str);

I think you meant to write printf("my string is %.*s\n", str);

Which is something of an argument against printf in itself :-)

> which relied on the under-the-hood representation. This doesn't work on 
> some architectures anyway, and is thoroughly obsolete. One could quickly 
> fix such code by writing it as:
> 
>     printf("my string is %*.s\n", str.length, str.ptr);

Yes, but that change had to be done sooner or later anyway...

Same as with the cast from char[] to ulong, dirty hacks both.

> So, what do you think?

Good riddance.

--anders