D's confusing strings (was Re: D on hackernews)

[Christophe]

"Jonathan M Davis" , dans le message (digitalmars.D:144962), a écrit :
>> - char[], etc. being real arrays.
> 
> Which is actually arguably a _bad_ thing, since it doesn't generally make 
> sense to operate on individual chars. What you really want 99.99999999999% of 
> the time is code points not code units.

Well, char could also disapear in favor of ubyte, but that will confuse 
even more people.

> If we were to start over again, that may very well be the way that 
> we'd go, but the added benefits just don't outweigh the immense amount 
> of code breakage which would result.

I 100% agree with that.

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Christophe