`string.skip` is uncompilable
0.42.2
prompt$ cat minimal-char-array.gs
[indent=4]
init
stdout.printf("%c", string.skip[0])
prompt$ valac minimal-char-array.gs
/home/btiffin/lang/vala/minimal-char-array.vala.c: In function ‘_vala_main’:
/home/btiffin/lang/vala/minimal-char-array.vala.c:28:9: warning: assignment discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
_tmp1_ = g_utf8_skip;
^
/home/btiffin/lang/vala/minimal-char-array.vala.c:29:19: error: ‘g_utf8_skip_length1’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘g_utf8_strlen’?
_tmp1__length1 = g_utf8_skip_length1;
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
g_utf8_strlen
/home/btiffin/lang/vala/minimal-char-array.vala.c:29:19: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
error: cc exited with status 256
Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
This was all in an attempt to take a peek at some char[]
data.
Edited by Al Thomas