The Case Against Autodecode

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 02.06.2016 23:16, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 02.06.2016 23:06, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> As the examples show, the examples would be entirely meaningless at code
>> unit level.
>
> So far, I needed to count the number of characters 'ö' inside some
> string exactly zero times,

(Obviously this isn't even what the example would do. I predict I will 
never need to count the number of code points 'ö' by calling some 
function from std.algorithm directly.)

> but I wanted to chain or join strings
> relatively often.