On Tuesday, 9 February 2016 at 22:39:14 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 February 2016 at 17:02:28 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
>> to!string behaving like that was a poor design choice[1]. Please use fromStringz.
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1607
>
> It's not a poor design choice. It ensures the string is handled by the D GC instead of the C side freeing it. `fromStringz` and `to!(String)` are for different cases.

You clearly didn't read the discussion in the link. And, when copying is desired, I'll take fromStringz(cstr).idup over to!string any day.

On Wednesday, 10 February 2016 at 07:20:03 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
> You clearly didn't read the discussion in the link.

I did and I fully agree with jmdavis.