digitalmars.D - Re: Wide characters support in D
- Ruslan Nikolaev <nruslan_devel yahoo.com> Jun 08 2010
Yes, I know function overloading takes care of it. But my whole point was totally different. 'tchar' has nothing to do with overloading, and the rationale is totally different - provide a type depending on the target platform preferences. Ruslan. --- On Tue, 6/8/10, Walter Bright <newshound1 digitalmars.com> wrote:From: Walter Bright <newshound1 digitalmars.com> Subject: Re: Wide characters support in D To: digitalmars-d puremagic.com Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 8:36 PM Ruslan Nikolaev wrote:No. From the very beginning I said "it would also be
builtin function for conversion to dchar". That means
have function that converts from tchar (regardless of
The reason was always clear - you normally don't need
but for some character analysis you might need them.
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/phobos/std_utf.html Function overloading takes care of selecting the right version.
Jun 08 2010