Idea: Introduce zero-terminated string specifier

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Sunday, 30 September 2012 at 18:58:11 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> +1
>
> We don't need to preserve C's design errors regarding strings 
> and vectors.

The problem is that, unsurprisingly, most C APIs (not just libc, 
but also most C libraries and OS APIs) use zero-terminated 
strings. The philosophy of ignoring the existence of C strings 
throughout all of D makes working with such APIs needlessly 
verbose (and sometimes annoying, as D code will compile and 
produce unexpected results).