string is rarely useful as a function argument

[Derek]

On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:36:59 +1100, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> I've seen the damage done in C++ with multiple string types. Being able  
> to convert from one to the other doesn't help much.

I'm not quite sure about that last sentence. I suspect that the better way  
for applications to handle strings of characters would be to internally  
store and manipulate them as utf-32 (dchar[]) and only when doing I/O use  
the other utf forms. So converting from the different forms is very  
helpful.

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Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia