arrays: if(null == [ ])

[Gor Gyolchanyan]

No, no and no. toUTFz could be called at compile-time. Absolutely no extra
run-time allocations, absolutely no run-time overhead.

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>wrote:

> On Tuesday, May 15, 2012 17:35:58 Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
> > Even if it's wrong to move writef to druntime, the toUTFz is still a very
> > small word to write.
>
> Using toStringz or toUTFz instead of having string literals be
> zero-terminated
> would force allocating extra strings (string literals are in an RO portion
> of
> memory - at least on Linux - so you can't append to them without
> reallocating).
>
> Making it so that string literals weren't null terminated would break a
> _lot_
> of code for little-to-no benefit and a definite cost. I really don't see
> the
> problem with "" being different from cast(string)[] - particularly when the
> fact that "" is non-null is _useful_.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
>



-- 
Bye,
Gor Gyolchanyan.
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