Creeping Bloat in Phobos

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/28/2014 10:03 AM, John Colvin wrote:
> There is no magic bullet for unicode in a systems language such as D. The
> programmer must be aware of it and make choices about how to treat it.

That's really the bottom line.

The trouble with autodecode is it is done at the lowest level, meaning it is 
very hard to bypass. By moving the decision up a level (by using .byDchar or 
.byCodeUnit adapters) the caller makes the decision.