D2 toStringz Return Type

[Steven Schveighoffer]

"Andrei Alexandrescu" wrote
> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> But you probably won't add it.  That's ok, I don't use Phobos anyways. 
>> I'll be sure to add an appropriate function to Tango while porting it to 
>> D2.
>
> You may want to rethink before putting dangerous functions in widely-used 
> libraries. Returning a writable zero-terminated char* is as dangerous as 
> it gets, and fostering bad coding style too.

Nonsense.  Tango currently has such a function with D 1.x, and I've never 
heard of any issues with it.  I think you have overblown the danger here.

-Steve