Idea: Introduce zero-terminated string specifier

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Monday, 1 October 2012 at 10:56:36 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> Le 30/09/2012 21:58, Vladimir Panteleev a écrit :
>> On Sunday, 30 September 2012 at 18:31:00 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>>> If you know that a string is 0 terminated, you can easily 
>>> create a
>>> slice from it as follow :
>>>
>>> char* myZeroTerminatedString;
>>> char[] myZeroTerminatedString[0 .. 
>>> strlen(myZeroTerminatedString)];
>>>
>>> It is clean and avoid to modify the stdlib in an unsafe way.
>>
>> That's what to!string already does.
>
> How does to!string know that the string is 0 terminated ?

By convention (it doesn't).