Idea: Introduce zero-terminated string specifier

[Paulo Pinto]

On Sunday, 30 September 2012 at 20:27:16 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic 
wrote:
> On 9/30/12, deadalnix <deadalnix at gmail.com> 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.
>>
>
> What does that have to do with writef()? You can call 
> to!string, but
> that's beside the point. The point was getting rid of this 
> verbosity
> when using C APIs.

You should anyway wrap those APIs not to pollute D call with 
lower level APIs.

As such I don't find the verbosity, as you put it, that much of 
an issue.

Then again, I favor the Pascal family of languages for systems 
programming.

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Paulo