String implementations
Walter Bright
newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Sun Jan 20 03:10:03 PST 2008
James Dennett wrote:
> (On the other hand, D is weak here
> because it identifies UTF8 strings with arrays of char, but char
> doesn't hold a UTF8 character. I can't imagine persuading Walter
> that this is a horrible error is going to work though.)
I've actually done considerable work with UTF-8, both in C++ and D. D's
method of dealing with it works out very well (and very naturally). This
is why you'll have a hard time persuading me otherwise <g>.
Note that C++0x is doing things similarly:
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2249.html
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