string types: const(char)[] and cstring

Myron Alexander someone at somewhere.com
Fri May 25 22:26:06 PDT 2007


Howard Berkey wrote:
> Nice idea.  I am only concerned that people will see "cstring" and think "null-terminated "C" string".  Not that that should be a deciding factor by any means of course.
> 


When I first read Walter's post, I also thought null-terminated strings. 


I even had it as an alias for toString (converting C string to char[]) 
as a means to get around the name conflict with Object but I shortened 
it to "str".

I cannot think of another name but "cstring" will cause confusion and 
defeats the "obvious" rule.



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