Range of chars (narrow string ranges)

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 09:57:29PM +0000, Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Tuesday, 28 April 2015 at 16:48:48 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> >But of course, we'd want to do the transition in a way that didn't
> >result in silent behavioral changes that would break code,
> 
> One proposal is to make char and dchar comparisons illegal (after all,
> they are comparing different things - an UTF-8 code unit with a code
> point, and even though in some cases this comparison makes sense, in
> many it doesn't).  That would solve most silent breakages at the
> expense of more not-so-silent breakages.
> 
> >And if we really wanted to do that, we could create a version flag
> >that turned of autodecoding and version the changes in Phobos
> >appropriately to see what we got.
> 
> Shameless self-promotion alert: An alternative is a GitHub fork. You
> can easily install and try out D forks with Digger, it's two commands:
> 
> digger build master+jmdavis/phobos/noautodecode
> digger install

Oooh, Jonathan has the code ready? Haha, maybe I'll start using that
instead of git master! ;-)


T

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