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[Derek Parnell]

On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 11:42:57 +0000, Janice Caron wrote:

> Still - nobody here was suggesting unique "on a whim". Rather, it was
> to solve a class of problems, the most obvious of which is to allow
> the following to compile:
> 
>     string s;
>     char[] t;
>     char[] u = "hello" ~ s ~ t;

But that already compiles and runs okay.

> It could well be that we don't need unique, but you are always going
> to get people complaining that they have to do:
> 
>     string s;
>     char[] t;
>     char[] u = "hello".dup ~ s.dup ~ t;

No, you don't have to do that.
 
> or
> 
>     string s;
>     char[] t;
>     char[] u = cast(char[])("hello" ~ s ~ cast(invariant(char)[])t);

Now you're just being silly.
 

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