Against deprecating aliases

Vladimir Panteleev vladimir at thecybershadow.net
Fri Sep 30 00:44:39 PDT 2011


On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:43:13 +0300, Andrej Mitrovic  
<andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do the Phobos devs really expect people to use code like this:
>
>     CopyFileW(std.utf.toUTFz!(const(wchar)*)(from),
> std.utf.toUTFz!(const(wchar)*)(to), false)
>
> instead of this?:
>
>     CopyFileW(std.utf.toUTF16z(from), std.utf.toUTF16z(to), false)
>

How about this?

     CopyFileW(std.utf.toUTFz!LPCWSTR(from), std.utf.toUTFz!LPCWSTR(to),  
false)

If there isn't already, support for this should be added to std.conv.to.

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Best regards,
  Vladimir                            mailto:vladimir at thecybershadow.net


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