Dealing with Autodecode

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 02:44:21PM +0000, deadalnix via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thursday, 2 June 2016 at 14:29:28 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> > > It's one thing to make a mistake. Everyone does that sometimes,
> > > and nobody is born knowing complex issues. What matters is if
> > > you're willing to learn new information and correct your errors.
> > 
> > The real ticket out of this is RCStr. It solves a major problem in
> > the language (compulsive GC) and also a minor occasional annoyance
> > (autodecoding).
> > 
> 
> You start to sound like a car salesman. I know nothing about RCStr,
> but I'm already starting to resent it.

Same here. It's starting to sound like some unproven newfangled
contraption designed to please the GC-phobic crowd who believe that RC
is the answer to life, the universe, and everything, and who may not
actually adopt D even after we've broken our backs bending over
backwards for them.  (And with a subject like "our sister", this RCStr
business does not sound very appealing at all.)  Whatever happened to
improving *current* string handling for *current* users?

It's making forking Phobos look like a less distant possibility than I
had anticipated. :-(


T

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