The Case Against Autodecode

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On Thursday, 2 June 2016 at 16:21:33 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> 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

The primitive is byUTF!dchar: 
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_utf#.byUTF. byDchar is just an alias.