Our Sister

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On Thursday, 26 May 2016 at 17:45:15 UTC, Xinok wrote:
> On Thursday, 26 May 2016 at 16:11:22 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> I've been working on RCStr (endearingly pronounced "Our 
>> Sister"), D's up-and-coming reference counted string type. The 
>> goals are:
>> ...
>
> I don't know how practical this would be, but if at all 
> feasible, I think one of the goals should be to have a common 
> interface/primitives with regular strings so we can write 
> generic functions which accept both native strings and RCStr.

Great news!
I think one can't stress this enough: If you want RCStr to be 
adapted it has to be a drop-in replacement for string.

Maybe we can bundle the transition from auto-decoding with the 
adaption to a RCString. There was the proposal of having String 
without auto-decoding for this migration.