First Impressions

[Georg Wrede]

Derek Parnell wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:24:50 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>>An early design goal for D was to upgrade arrays to the point where 
>>string classes weren't necessary.
> 
> And is it there yet? I mean, given that a string is just a lump of text

The string you're talking about is not just a lump of text.

More specifically it's a lump of text, irregularly interspersed with 
short non-ascii ubyte sequences.

The latter being of course the tails of UTF-8 "characters".