The Case Against Autodecode

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 06/02/2016 12:14 PM, Kagamin wrote:
> On Thursday, 2 June 2016 at 15:06:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> 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
>
> Yes, do consider Walter's proposal, it will be an enabling technology
> for RCStr too: the more phobos works with string-like ranges the more it
> is usable for RCStr.

Walter and I have a unified view on this. Although I'd need to raise the 
issue that the primitive should be by!dchar, not byDchar. -- Andrei