Should this work?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/28/14 3:28 AM, Regan Heath wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:19:54 -0000, Andrei Alexandrescu
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>> Walter doesn't like writing libraries so when he first defined Phobos'
>> string support he simply took the string functions in Python and Ruby
>> and implemented them. That didn't work well at all, in spite of the
>> functions having the same names and semantics.
>
> What specifically didn't work?  All I can recall are UTF and slicing
> issues, some of which remain with us today.

Problem is what we had was a crappy strings API because it used none of 
D's inherent advantages. What we have now is much better.

Andrei