Is this statement in http://dlang.org/dmd-windows.html still true?

Pierre Rouleau prouleau001 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 2 06:23:36 PDT 2012


On 12-07-02 4:58 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 07/01/2012 06:42 PM, Pierre Rouleau wrote:
>
>  > Would the following rewrite of the above statement maintain the original
>  > intent while conveying a little bit more information?
>  >
>  > "It is never a good idea to write into a string literal.
>
> "never a good idea" would be too permissive and welcoming. The
> documentation should simply say that writing into a string literal is
> undefined behavior (exactly like in other popular system languages like
> C and C++).
>
> The current documentation gets into unnecessary detail of what may
> happen and why under different environments. Well, yes. :) It is
> undefined behavior.
>
> Ali
>

Thanks Ali, I completely agree.

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Pierre Rouleau



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