TDPL reaches Thermopylae level

[Justin Johansson]

Chris Nicholson-Sauls Wrote:

> 
> Granted LTR is common enough to be expectable and acceptable.  To be perfectly honest, I 
> don't believe I have *ever* even used wchar/wstring.  Char/string gosh yes; dchar/dstring 
> quite a bit as well, where I need the simplicity; but I've yet to feel much need for the 
> "weirdo" middle child of UTF.
> 
> I would argue that string ~ wstring returning string is fine, but would suggest it be a 
> warning for those like myself who might have first guessed it would "upscale to fit". 
> Just so long as the foreach(dchar;string) trick is still around, char/string can cover an 
> awful lot of ground.
> 
> All that said, though, I don't think I would ever use ""~wstring as a means of conversion. 
>   It just feels like "there wasn't any other way to do this, so here's a cheap hack" -- 
> which just isn't the case.

Your overall reply well put.  On last point: agree; cheap hacks should be avoided.

cheers, Justin