Proposal for fixing dchar ranges

[Walter Bright]

On 3/10/2014 6:35 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> An idea to fix the whole problems I see with char[] being treated specially by
> phobos: introduce an actual string type, with char[] as backing, that is a dchar
> range, that actually dictates the rules we want. Then, make the compiler use
> this type for literals.

Proposals to make a string class for D have come up many times. I have a 
kneejerk dislike for it. It's a really strong feature for D to have strings be 
an array type, and I'll go to great lengths to keep it that way.