Why is `scope` planned for deprecation?

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On Monday, 17 November 2014 at 19:24:49 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 11/17/2014 3:00 AM, "Ola Fosheim Grøstad" 
> <ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>" wrote:
>> I am saying
>> that when you have <32KiB RAM total it makes sense to save 
>> space by not storing
>> the string length.
>
> I know what you're saying.
>
> You're saying without evidence that sentinels are faster. They 
> are not.
> You're saying without evidence that 0 terminated strings use 
> less memory. They do not.
>
> (It does not save space when "filename" and "filename.ext" 
> cannot be overlapped.)

Stop wasting time with the mouth breather.