Idea: Introduce zero-terminated string specifier

Paulo Pinto pjmlp at progtools.org
Sun Sep 30 11:58:28 PDT 2012


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.

+1

We don't need to preserve C's design errors regarding strings and 
vectors.

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Paulo


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