Problems with string literals and etc.c.odbc.sql functions

[Marc Schütz via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 19 December 2015 at 14:16:36 UTC, anonymous wrote:
> On 19.12.2015 14:20, Marc Schütz wrote:
>> As this is going to be passed to a C function, it would need 
>> to be
>> zero-terminated. `.dup` doesn't do this, he'd have to use
>> `std.string.toStringz` instead. However, that function returns 
>> a
>> `immutable(char)*`, which would have to be cast again :-(
>
> Ouch, I totally missed that. Looks like we don't have a nice 
> way to do this then?

I guess so. Theoretically, we could change `toStringz()` to 
return `char*`; if its result is unique (we would have to change 
the implementation to always make a copy), it should then be 
implicitly convertible to `immutable(char)*`. But that would 
break code, because it could have been used like `auto s = 
"xyz".toStringz;`, where `s` would then have a different type. 
So, there'd need to be an additional function, `toMutableStringz`.