Someone should tell him about D...

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 6/3/22 4:12 PM, IGotD- wrote:

> When it comes to strings? Depends what you are doing and how you are 
> doing it. C++ made a strange decision to include the null terminator at 
> the end of the strings even if it isn't really necessary. The result is 
> that you cannot slice strings and can lead to unnecessary deep copies. 
> In order avoid this C++ invented string_view and associated literals. 
> Now you suddenly have two types of strings and if you make an API you 
> might have to support both string and string_view. This is one of the 
> crazy things with "modern C++". Still it is more user friendly than the 
> old C library strings which also are prone to buffer overflows.
> 
> D in this case did the right choice not including the null terminator so 
> that you can slice strings all you want and no extra string view.

D almost had 2 types for arrays, one that would allow resizing and 
another that would just be a slice.

The point was to solve the stomping problem. But we fixed it a different 
way.

Feast your eyes!

https://forum.dlang.org/post/h5nbj3$17is$1@digitalmars.com

-Steve