Major performance problem with std.array.front()

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Sunday, 9 March 2014 at 13:47:26 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
> On Friday, 7 March 2014 at 15:03:24 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> 2) It is regression back to C++ days of 
>> no-one-cares-about-Unicode pain. Thinking about strings as 
>> character arrays is so natural and convenient that if 
>> language/Phobos won't punish you for that, it will be 
>> extremely widespread.
>
> Not with Nick Sabalausky's suggestion to remove the 
> implementation of front from char arrays. This way, everyone 
> will be forced to decide whether they want code units or code 
> points or something else.

Andrei has made it clear that the code breakage this would
involve would be unacceptable.