d strings are the bane of my existance

[Chris Katko]

On Sunday, 5 December 2021 at 16:32:16 UTC, rikki cattermole 
wrote:
> The string is not the problem.
>
> ```d
> string ip_address = "192.168.1.1";
> auto x = new InternetAddress(ip_address, 8008);
> ```
>
> That works.
>
> A string in D is an alias for immutable(char)[]. This is 
> defined in druntime (object.d).
>
> Immutable does cast to const implicitly, so a string argument 
> to the constructor works fine as it has the same meaning.
>
> The port however, that needs to be a ubyte/ushort to pass in 
> and not be a string like you had it.

Yes! Thank you! I just realized the latter part was broken when I 
switched to using a uint for the addr. But I didn't know string 
is an alias for immutable(char)[]! Thank you!