The Case Against Autodecode

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jun 2 08:06:20 PDT 2016


On 06/02/2016 10:53 AM, Kagamin wrote:
> On Thursday, 2 June 2016 at 13:06:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> This is what's happening here. We worked ourselves to a foam because
>> the creator of the language started a thread entitled "The Case
>> Against Autodecode", whilst fully understanding there is no way to
>> actually eliminate autodecode.
>
> Autodecode doesn't need to be removed from phobos completely, it only
> needs to be more bearable, like it is in the foreach statement. E.g.
> byDchar will stay, initial idea is to actually put it to more intensive
> usage in phobos and user code, no need to remove it.

Yah, and then such code will work with RCStr. -- Andrei


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