Dynamic arrays in D 1.0

[Robert Fraser]

Tower Ty wrote:
> Edward Diener Wrote:
> 
>> bearophile wrote:
>>> Edward Diener:
>>>> I see the Phobos std.string. It seems, at first glance, not nearly as 
>>>> rich an implementation as the C++ std::string functionality.
>>> A module of strings functions and the like is a work of the art of balance. More isn't always better. You have to put there the best/right functions, and throw away the useless ones, the more confusing ones, etc etc.
>> I am one of those who really likes the C++ std::string class. I would 
>> not have chosen all the redundancy with C strings in the various 
>> functionality, since a std::string can always be constructed from a C 
>> string, but other than that I think it is excellent. I don't understand 
>> why D would not have wanted to create a std.string which mirrors that 
>> functionality, leaving out the C-isms except for construction. Maybe I 
>> will just do it myself and post it somewhere as I play around with D 
>> some more.
>>
>> I think D has sometime tried not to be C++ to its detriment, and this is 
>> one more case of that ( there are plenty others ).
> 
> I use tango and D1 but I for one would like to see strings available as a type rather than char[] which I just find confusing . So if you create a better string please do it in tango also.
> 
> I think there may be something there already but I havn't had time to investigate.

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