Range of chars (narrow string ranges)

[Damian via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 28 April 2015 at 23:15:40 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 09:57:29PM +0000, Vladimir Panteleev 
> via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 28 April 2015 at 16:48:48 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
>> wrote:
>> >But of course, we'd want to do the transition in a way that 
>> >didn't
>> >result in silent behavioral changes that would break code,
>> 
>> One proposal is to make char and dchar comparisons illegal 
>> (after all,
>> they are comparing different things - an UTF-8 code unit with 
>> a code
>> point, and even though in some cases this comparison makes 
>> sense, in
>> many it doesn't).  That would solve most silent breakages at 
>> the
>> expense of more not-so-silent breakages.
>> 
>> >And if we really wanted to do that, we could create a version 
>> >flag
>> >that turned of autodecoding and version the changes in Phobos
>> >appropriately to see what we got.
>> 
>> Shameless self-promotion alert: An alternative is a GitHub 
>> fork. You
>> can easily install and try out D forks with Digger, it's two 
>> commands:
>> 
>> digger build master+jmdavis/phobos/noautodecode
>> digger install
>
> Oooh, Jonathan has the code ready? Haha, maybe I'll start using 
> that
> instead of git master! ;-)
>
>
> T

I second that! If we all make the switch, perhaps Walter will 
too? :D