just out of curiosity, does anyone use these and actually mean them to be strings? It seems like I'm invariably writing

cast(ubyte[]) x"..."

On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 10:25:29 Ellery Newcomer wrote:
> just out of curiosity, does anyone use these and actually mean them to be strings? It seems like I'm invariably writing
> 
> cast(ubyte[]) x"..."

That's legal? I thought that x went in front of hex literals, not strings. I wouldn't have thought that that code would compile, and I certainly have no clue what you're trying to do. So, I certainly don't fall in the category of anyone using it - regardless of whether it's meant to be a string or not.

- Jonathan M Davis

Jonathan M Davis:

> That's legal?

They are a part of D language, search for "Hex Strings" here: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/lex.html

Bye,
bearophile

On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 11:29:59 bearophile wrote:
> Jonathan M Davis:
> > That's legal?
> 
> They are a part of D language, search for "Hex Strings" here: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/lex.html

It always seems like there's at least one more thing in the language that I have no idea is there...

- Jonathan M Davis

On 01/26/2011 01:35 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 11:29:59 bearophile wrote:
>> Jonathan M Davis:
>>> That's legal?
>>
>> They are a part of D language, search for "Hex Strings" here:
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/lex.html
>
> It always seems like there's at least one more thing in the language that I have
> no idea is there...
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

helps to have written a D lexer or two. weren't you going to do that?

Ellery Newcomer <ellery-newcomer@utulsa.edu> wrote:

> just out of curiosity, does anyone use these and actually mean them to be strings? It seems like I'm invariably writing
>
> cast(ubyte[]) x"..."

Never used them, tbh. But shouldn't that be

cast(ubyte[]) x"...".dup

?

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On 01/26/2011 02:16 PM, Simen kjaeraas wrote:
> Ellery Newcomer <ellery-newcomer@utulsa.edu> wrote:
>
>> just out of curiosity, does anyone use these and actually mean them to
>> be strings? It seems like I'm invariably writing
>>
>> cast(ubyte[]) x"..."
>
> Never used them, tbh. But shouldn't that be
>
> cast(ubyte[]) x"...".dup
>
> ?
>

yeah, strictly speaking. but that (or cast(immutable(ubyte[]))) would be even uglier.

Simen kjaeraas:

> > cast(ubyte[]) x"..."
> 
> Never used them, tbh. But shouldn't that be
> 
> cast(ubyte[]) x"...".dup

Maybe it's to avoid such mistakes that C++ has const_cast separated from other casts.

Bye,
bearophile

On Wednesday 26 January 2011 11:53:32 Ellery Newcomer wrote:
> On 01/26/2011 01:35 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 11:29:59 bearophile wrote:
> >> Jonathan M Davis:
> >>> That's legal?
> >> 
> >> They are a part of D language, search for "Hex Strings" here: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/lex.html
> > 
> > It always seems like there's at least one more thing in the language that I have no idea is there...
> > 
> > - Jonathan M Davis
> 
> helps to have written a D lexer or two. weren't you going to do that?

I've been working on it off and on, but I've been busy enough that I haven't made as much progress on it as I'd like. Even so though, I might have already run into it there and totally forgot about it, because it's a feature that I've never used and have no use for.

- Jonathan M Davis

On 01/26/2011 07:25 PM, Ellery Newcomer wrote:
> just out of curiosity, does anyone use these and actually mean them to be
> strings? It seems like I'm invariably writing
>
> cast(ubyte[]) x"..."

Super-nice for universal text. Anything you can't type in because of non-illimited keyboard size...

Actually had a similar idea, except using in-string delimiters #...# instead of a prefix:
	"#xx xxx xxxx xxx#"
Adds one char compared to D syntax, but allows partially hex-coded string:
	"blah #xx xxxx xxx# blah"

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