Uri class and parser

[Mike van Dongen]

On Thursday, 8 November 2012 at 23:51:47 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Friday, November 09, 2012 00:42:42 jerro wrote:
>> > After trying your solution I found out I was calling
>> > indexOf(string, char) which apparently is different than
>> > indexOf(string, string) as I now no longer have that error.
>> > Instead, when I call parse on compile time I get the 
>> > following
>> > at the method parse:
>> > Error: URI class literals cannot be returned from CTFE
>> 
>> It looks like you can't have class enums. This fails too:
>> 
>> class A{}
>> enum a = new A;
>> 
>> I don't think you can get around this
>
> Nope. To some extent, classes can be used at compile time, but 
> they can't
> persist from compile time to runtime. So, if you really want a 
> type which is
> useable with CTFE, make it a struct, not a class.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Then I shall make it a struct. But is the following acceptable in 
phobos?

On Thursday, 8 November 2012 at 15:10:18 UTC, Mike van Dongen 
wrote:
> I agree with Jens Mueller on the fact that URI should be a 
> struct instead of a class. But then I won't be able to return 
> null anymore so I should throw an exception when an invalid URI 
> has been passed to the constructor.