On Thursday, 16 May 2019 at 03:11:15 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
> I'm tempted to just always "alias String = immutable(byte)[]"

Well actually, because "string" is just an alias defined in object.d, you can actually redeclare it to be something else in your own code.

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import std.stdio;

alias string = int[long];

void main()
{
    string im_not_a_string = [1: 10, 2: 20];
    writeln(im_not_a_string);
}
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Have fun. :P

On 5/20/19 9:39 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On Thursday, 16 May 2019 at 03:11:15 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
>> I'm tempted to just always "alias String = immutable(byte)[]"
> 
> Well actually, because "string" is just an alias defined in object.d, you can actually redeclare it to be something else in your own code.
> 
> -----
> import std.stdio;
> 
> alias string = int[long];
> 
> void main()
> {
>      string im_not_a_string = [1: 10, 2: 20];
>      writeln(im_not_a_string);
> }
> -----
> 
> Have fun. :P

Hmmm...I think I'll just hold off on that trick until I ever enter a code obfuscation contest... ;)