Fixing std.string

[Norbert Nemec]

On 20/08/10 03:22, dsimcha wrote:
> 3.  Is there any good reason to avoid just templating everything to work with
> all 9 string types (mutable/const/immutable char/wchar/dchar[]) or whatever
> subset is reasonable for the given function?

Wouldn't it be sufficient to take const as input? IIRC, both mutable and 
immutable can be implicitly converted to const and this exactly the 
purpose that const is designed for: data that I can't change but that 
other code may be able to change. Or am I mixing something up here?