The Case Against Autodecode

[Marc Schütz via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 1 June 2016 at 01:13:17 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On 5/31/16 4:38 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> What about e.g. joiner?
>
> Compiler error. Better than what it does now.

I believe everything that does only concatenation will work 
correctly. That's why joiner() is one of those algorithms that 
should accept strings directly without going through any decoding 
(but it may need to recode the joining element itself, of course).