On 09/28/2013 06:29 AM, ollie wrote:

On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 22:23:43 +0200, Mike Wey wrote:

How is toStringArray limited to 10 strings?

In src/glib/Str.d at line 190:

	public static string[] toStringArray(char** args)
	{
		if ( args is null )
		{
			return null;
		}
		string[] argv;
		
		char* arg = args[0];
		int i=0;
		while( (arg) != null && i<10)
		{
			argv ~= toString(arg);
			++i;
			arg = args[i];
		}
		
		return argv;
	}

Because of the i in the while loop. As long as arg points to a valid string and i<10 concat to argv. If i==10 stop looping even if arg points to a valid string.

I don't know if this is an arbitrary limit or some underlying need for that limit.

The 10 does seem arbitrary, the original commit mentions it's a bugfix
but not for what and why 10.