const, final, scope function parameters

Charles D Hixson charleshixsn at earthlink.net
Mon Oct 22 16:13:00 PDT 2007


Chris Nicholson-Sauls wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> ...
>> On a related note, "cstring" has received universal condemnation <g>, 
>> so   I'll just have to make "string" work.
> 
> Or maybe something like:
> alias const( char)[] utf8  ; // or even u8string
> alias const(wchar)[] utf16 ; // or even u16string
> alias const(dchar)[] utf32 ; // or even u32string
> 
> -- Chris Nicholson-Sauls

+1 on the short forms, -1 on the long forms.

OTOH, this isn't that significant, as your implementation is 
quite short. :-)

Sill, if the names are to get used in library routines... then 
perhaps it is significant.



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