OT - Replacing strings with slices in C# - high performance improvement

[Jack Stouffer]

On Saturday, 21 April 2018 at 19:15:58 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> An RCString could have slicing just like C#.
>
> And it doesn't prevent "raw slicing" with char arrays.
>
> FWIW, I support having a string library type and have been 
> advocating for it for years (I'd love to have my char arrays 
> back as arrays of chars). But it MUST support slicing to pass 
> muster in D.

A slice of a String could also return a String, and have some 
property raw or toArray to get the underlying slice.