Postfix string literal alternative suggestion

[Janice Caron]

On 09/02/2008, Walter Bright <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> You can already use the syntax:
>
>         cast(string)"foo";
>         cast(wstring)"bar";
>         cast(dstring)"abc";
>
> if you need to.

I did not know that. That seems counterintuitive. I would not expect a
simple cast to perform UTF conversion. (I would have expected "bar"
and "abc" both to have type invariant(char)[3]).