Why is `scope` planned for deprecation?

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 11/17/2014 3:43 AM, "Ola Fosheim Grøstad" 
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>" wrote:
> Remember that the alternative to zero-terminated strings at that time was to
> have 2 string types, one with a one byte length and one with a larger length.

No, that was not the alternative.