Dealing with Autodecode

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 06/02/2016 11:14 AM, deadalnix wrote:
> On Thursday, 2 June 2016 at 15:03:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> You start to sound like a car salesman.
>>
>> I assume that means overselling or false advertising. Where do either
>> of these happen? -- Andrei
>
> For SDC for instance, autodecode is a problem (in fact, it is the very
> reason I abandoned making the lexer usable as a standalone) while RCStr
> would not help one bit as string are pretty much never manipulated
> directly anywhere.

Well I'm not sure how SDC works.

> More generally, using RCStr is at best sidestepping the issue rather
> than solving it.

What is the issue?

> On the GC side of the issue, I think there are also overstatements.

What are those?


Andrei