The Case Against Autodecode

[Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 12 May 2016 at 20:15:45 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> 2. Every time one wants an algorithm to work with both strings 
> and ranges, you wind up special casing the strings to defeat 
> the autodecoding, or to decode the ranges. Having to constantly 
> special case it makes for more special cases when plugging 
> together components. These issues often escape detection when 
> unittesting because it is convenient to unittest only with 
> arrays.

This is a great example of special casing in Phobos that someone 
showed me: 
https://github.com/dlang/phobos/blob/master/std/algorithm/searching.d#L1714