Today's programming challenge - How's your Range-Fu ?

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 10:53:04AM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 4/18/2015 6:27 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> >One possible solution would be to modify std.uni.graphemeStride to
> >not allocate, since it shouldn't need to do so just to compute the
> >length of the next grapheme.
> 
> That should be done. There should be a fixed maximum codepoint count
> to graphemeStride.

Why? Scanning a string for a grapheme of arbitrary length does not need
allocation since you're just reading data. Unless there is some required
intermediate representation that I'm not aware of?


T

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