The Case Against Autodecode

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 1 June 2016 at 22:24:49 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
>> Deprecating front, popFront and empty for narrow
>> strings is what we are talking about here.
>
> That will not happen. Walter and I consider the cost excessive 
> and the benefit too small.
>
>> This has little to do with
>> explicit string transcoding in foreach.
>
> It is implicit, not explicit.

Do you mean you agree that range primitives for strings can be 
changed to stay (auto)decoding to dchar, but require some form of 
explicit opt-in?