D's Auto Decoding and You

[Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 16:24:31 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 14:06:37 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
>> http://jackstouffer.com/blog/d_auto_decoding_and_you.html
>>
>> Based on the recent thread in General, I wrote this blog post 
>> that's designed to be part beginner tutorial, part objective 
>> record of the debate over it, and finally my opinions on the 
>> matter.
>
> I probably would have preferred this split up into two parts 
> with one on the tutorial and one on the record of the debate. 
> It seems to focus more on the debate.

That wasn't my intent. I wanted the debate to be a lens into a 
discussion of the technical merits and demerits of auto decoding. 
I have reworded some of the article in order to reflect this.

> Maybe you could get add a section that was like "for THIS type 
> of string, do X for performance" with clear explanations of why 
> that is the best way and why other ways will be slower. Then, 
> you can have other sub-sections for "for THAT type of string, 
> do Y for performance." You have some of this detail in there, 
> but it's organized more with respect to the context of the 
> debate, I think.

I will add this, thanks.