.NET on a string

[Christopher Wright]

Kagamin wrote:
> Cristian Vlasceanu Wrote:
> 
>> I passed a proposal of my own to Walter and Andrei, and that is to have D 
>> coders explicitly state the intent of using a slice with the "ref" keyword; 
>> "ref" is already a legal token in D (at least in 2.0) albeit it is only 
>> valid in the context of a parameter list, or foreach argument list. It is 
>> not legal to say "ref int j = i;" in a declaration, for example. But it is a 
>> trivial change in the parser (I have implemented this change as a proof of 
>> concept / language extension research) to allow ref (just for slices): "ref 
>> int[] s = a[1..2];" other than in parameter and foreach arg lists.
> 
> There was another suggestion - to mark arrays: int[] is a slice, int[new] is an array. I think, you'll have problems with const system, .net doesn't have one.

The const system is largely a frontend issue. I don't think that will 
cause many issues.