string is rarely useful as a function argument

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/28/11 11:11 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/28/2011 4:06 AM, Peter Alexander wrote:
>> I rarely *ever* need an immutable string. What I usually need is
>> const(char)[].
>> I'd say 99%+ of the time I need only a const string.
>
> I have a very different experience with strings. I can't even remember a
> case where I wanted to modify an existing string (this includes all my C
> and C++ usage of strings). It's always assemble a string at one place,
> and then refer to that string ever after (and never modify it).
>
> What immutable strings make possible is treating strings as if they were
> value types. Nearly every language I know of treats them as immutable
> except for C and C++.

I remember the day at Kahili we figured immutable(char)[] will just work 
as it needs to. It felt pretty awesome.

Andrei