Major performance problem with std.array.front()

[Dicebot]

On Sunday, 9 March 2014 at 17:27:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 3/9/14, 6:47 AM, "Marc Schütz" <schuetzm at gmx.net>" 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.
>
> Such as giving up on that crappy language that keeps on 
> breaking their code.
>
> Andrei


That was more about "if you are that crazy to even consider such 
breakage, this is closer my personal perfection" than actual 
proposal ;)