std.algorithm.remove and principle of least astonishment

[Michel Fortin]

On 2010-11-22 10:37:48 -0500, "Steven Schveighoffer" 
<schveiguy at yahoo.com> said:

> BTW, you may not understand that we don't want to go back to the days 
> of  'byDchar'.  We want strings (including literals) to be special type 
>  because they are a special type (not an array).

It's amusing to read this from my perspective.

In my project where I'm implementing the Objective-C object model, I 
implemented literal Objective-C strings a few days ago. It's basically 
a fourth string type understood by the compiler that generates a static 
NSString instance in the object file. String literals with no explicit 
type are implicitly converted whenever needed, so it really is painless 
to use:

	NSString str = "hello";  // implicit conversion, but only for 
compile-time constants

Here you have your NSString, all stored as static data, no memory 
allocation at all.

So you now have your special string type that works with literals and 
is not an array. But it's Cocoa-only.


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