The more interesting question

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 14-05-2012 15:21, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
> I thing the zero-terminated literal shtick is pointless. Literals are
> rarely passed to C functions, so we gotta use the std.utf.toUTFz  anyway.
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Christophe
> <travert at phare.normalesup.org <mailto:travert at phare.normalesup.org>> wrote:
>
>     deadalnix , dans le message (digitalmars.D:167258), a écrit :
>      > A good solution would be to set the pointer to 0 when the length
>     is set
>      > to 0.
>
>     String literal are zero-terminated. "" cannot point to 0x0,
>     unless we drop this rule. Maybe we should...
>
>
>
>
> --
> Bye,
> Gor Gyolchanyan.

This is very false. I invite you to read almost any module in druntime. 
You'll find that it makes heavy use of printf debugging.

That being said, dropping the null-termination rule when passing strings 
to non-const(char)* parameters/variables/etc would be sane enough (I think).

-- 
- Alex