typeof(string.front) should be char

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Saturday, March 03, 2012 13:46:16 Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 03/03/2012 01:42 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 12:42:53PM -0800, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > [...]
> > 
> >> The current solution encourages correct usage (or at least usage which
> >> is closer to correct, since it still isn't at the grapheme level)
> >> without disallowing more optimized code.
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > Speaking of graphemes, is anyone interested in implementing Unicode
> > normalization for D? I looked at the specs briefly, and it seems to be
> > something that is straightforward to implement, albeit somewhat tedious.
> > 
> > It would be nice if D string types are normalized (needs slight change
> > to string concatenation). Or at least, if there's a guaranteed
> > normalized string type for those who care about it.
> > 
> > 
> > T
> 
> Denis Spir was working on solving that problem but unfortunately we
> haven't heard from him for almost a year now. I think this is his site:
> 
>    http://spir.wikidot.com
> 
> Ali