Higher level built-in strings

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:29:43 -0400, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> bearophile wrote:
>>> Probably too late to change that one.
>>  There is very little D2 code around, so little changes as this one are  
>> possible still.
>
> It's a D1 feature, and has been there since nearly the beginning.

Since when did we care about D1 compatibility?

const, inout, array appending, final, typeof(string), TLS globals just to  
name a few...

If you expect D1 code to compile fine and run on D2, you are deluding  
yourself.

The worst that happens is that code starts using dchar instead of char,  
and either a compiler error occurs and it's fixed simply by doing:

foreach(char c; str)

or it compiles fine because the type is never explicitly stated, and  
what's the big deal there?  The code just becomes more utf compatible for  
free :)

-Steve