std.algorithm.remove and principle of least astonishment

[spir]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:35:59 +0100
Daniel Gibson <metalcaedes at gmail.com> wrote:

> spir schrieb:
> > What i don't understand is why people who need unsigned bytes do not use ubyte? But instead bug into char. Is this only because of C baggage?
> > 
> 
> probably because you can't write ubyte[] str = "asdf"; and they want to have 
> "ascii-chars" in their ubyte arrays

Oh yes, sorry for the noise. Then, I don't see any other solution else having a proper ByteString type built in the compiler (that would indeed work for any single-byte encoding, not only ASCII), with a corresponding string literal pre/post-fix (one more ;-).

Denis
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