D2 toStringz Return Type

[ore-sama]

Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

> > that's because they get char buffer, not sz, so they can't determine
> > end of buffer scanning for null (strcat does, but it's still buffer).
> > toStringz has nothing to do with these functions.
> 
> Good point.

But what can really simplify interoperability is modification of cat and idup operators so that they allocate an extra char and write null to it, so toStringz can be replaced with idup ar avoided completely.