std.string will get the boot

[Simen kjaeraas]

Lionello Lunesu <lio at lunesu.remove.com> wrote:

> I miss typedef. I think this is exactly what typedef was intended
> for. Perhaps we can reintroduce it as a 'short hand' for such a
> struct?

struct Typedef( T ) {
   T payload;
   alias payload this;
}

Usage:

alias Typedef!( int ) myInt;

Is this what you want?

> By the way, ASCII is a subset of UTF-8 (that was the whole
> point), so there's no reason why 'char[]' can't still be used for
> ASCII strings, right?

AS far as I have understood (I am no Unicode guru), in some locales  
toUpper and toLower map ASCII chars to non-ASCII chars. So ASCII being a  
strict subset of UTF-8 is not always true.

-- 
Simen