On Tuesday, 14 January 2014 at 03:01:53 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Monday, January 13, 2014 23:10:03 TheFlyingFiddle wrote:
I'm curious, why is the .front property of narrow strings of
type
dchar?
And not the underlying character type for the string.
It's to promote the correct handling of Unicode. A couple of
related questions
and answers:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12288465/std-algorithm-joinerstring-string-why-result-elements-are-dchar-and-not-ch
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16590650/how-to-read-a-string-character-by-character-as-a-range-in-d
- Jonathan M Davis
Also somewhat related:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13368728/why-isnt-dchar-the-standard-character-type-in-d
