Article about problems & suggestions for D 2.0
Daniel Murphy
yebblies at nospamgmail.com
Sat Aug 27 12:47:44 PDT 2011
"Mehrdad" <wfunction at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:j3beu2$25a8$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Related suggestion: All methods that return /new/ strings should return
> *mutable* arrays. There's really no reason (that I can think of) to not do
> this: if you see something returning a mutable array, you _know_ it's a
> new array (unless otherwise documented), so you _know_ it's safe to cast
> it to immutable if needed. It doesn't work the other way around, though.
Since a few days ago, mutable strings returned from strongly pure functions
can be implicitly converted to immutable ones, so a cast won't be needed any
more.
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