Make dur a property?

[deadalnix]

On Thursday, 24 January 2013 at 14:53:49 UTC, Maxim Fomin wrote:
> On Thursday, 24 January 2013 at 14:25:18 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 23 January 2013 at 23:39:50 UTC, Andrei 
>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> We need a good DIP on this. UFCS has destroyed all arguments 
>>> in favor of requiring parens. There is no question we must do 
>>> this. Anyone inclined toward writing a detailed DIP?
>>>
>>
>> Let me strongly disagree. Language feature should never be 
>> introduced where library solution is possible.
>>
>
> C has strings as a concept and C++ as a library solution. Which 
> strings are better: C, C++ or D?

D string string is not builtin. string is merely a thing in D.

D have builtin slices, which is a generic feature that is used 
with whatever you want.