The Case Against Autodecode

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 06/02/2016 05:58 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/2/2016 1:27 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> The lambda returns bool. -- Andrei
>
> Yes, I was wrong about that. But the point still stands with:
>
>  > * s.balancedParens('〈', '〉') works only with autodecoding.
>  > * s.canFind('ö') works only with autodecoding. It returns always
> false without.
>
> Can be made to work without autodecoding.

By special casing? Perhaps. I seem to recall though that one major issue 
with autodecoding was that it special-cases certain algorithms. So you'd 
need to go through all of std.algorithm and make sure you can 
special-case your way out of situations that work today.


Andrei