typeof(string.front) should be char

[Ali Çehreli]

On 03/02/2012 06:30 PM, Piotr Szturmaj wrote:
 > Hello,
 >
 > For this code:
 >
 > auto c = "test"c;
 > auto w = "test"w;
 > auto d = "test"d;
 > pragma(msg, typeof(c.front));
 > pragma(msg, typeof(w.front));
 > pragma(msg, typeof(d.front));
 >
 > compiler prints:
 >
 > dchar
 > dchar
 > immutable(dchar)
 >
 > IMO it should print this:
 >
 > immutable(char)
 > immutable(wchar)
 > immutable(dchar)
 >
 > Is it a bug?

No, that's by design. When used as InputRange ranges, slices of any 
character type are exposed as ranges of dchar.

Ali