The Case Against Autodecode

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 13 May 2016 at 10:38:09 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>
> Based on what I've seen in previous conversations on 
> auto-decoding over the past few years (be it in the newsgroup, 
> on github, or at dconf), most of the core devs think that 
> auto-decoding was a major blunder that we continue to pay for. 
> But unfortunately, even if we all agree that it was a huge 
> mistake and want to fix it, the question remains of how to do 
> that without breaking tons of code - though since AFAIK, Andrei 
> is still in favor of auto-decoding, we'd have a hard time going 
> forward with plans to get rid of it even if we had come up with 
> a good way of doing so. But I would love it if we could get rid 
> of auto-decoding and clean up string handling in D.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Why not just try it in a separate test release? Only then can we 
know to what extent it actually breaks code, and what remedies we 
could come up with.