Interesting rant about Scala's issues

[John Colvin]

On Friday, 4 April 2014 at 18:57:44 UTC, Ben Boeckel wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 11:02:01 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Most of the casts in Warp come from the workarounds I had to 
>> do to
>> get around the auto-decode of std.array.front(). I have 
>> designed
>> byChar, byWchar and byDchar ranges for Phobos to get around 
>> this
>> issue, but that is stalled now because of the messed up design 
>> of
>> ranges.
>
> Sorry, I'm a D noob; what's 'auto-decode'?

unicode decoding. front decodes a code-point from a string 
instead of a code-unit (single char)