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[Ecstatic Coder]

On Wednesday, 25 July 2018 at 21:16:40 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/24/2018 4:53 AM, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
>>      str = str1 + " " + str2;
>
> But you have to be careful how it is written:
>
>     str = "hello" + "world";
>     str = "hello" + "world" + str1;
>
> don't work, etc.

Yeah. That's exactly there where D shines, and C++ s*cks...

C++ string constants are stupid pointers, no size etc. Indeed one 
big C++ silly thing that Walter fixed perfectly. He is the only 
language designed who found and applied the perfect solution for 
strings, arrays and slices. Big respect to him...