Dealing with Autodecode

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 1 June 2016 at 00:46:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> It is not practical to just delete or deprecate autodecode - it 
> is too embedded into things.
Which Things ?
> The way to deal with it is to replace reliance on autodecode 
> with .byDchar (.byDchar has a bonus of not throwing an 
> exception on invalid UTF, but using the replacement dchar 
> instead.)

> To that end, and this will be an incremental process:
> ....

So does this mean we intend to carry the auto-decoding wart with 
us into the future. And telling everyone :
"The oblivious way is broken we just have it for backwards 
compatibility ?"

To come back to c++ [] vs. std.vector.

The actually have valid reasons; mainly c compatibility.
To keep [] as a pointer.

I believe As of now D is still flexible enough to make a radical 
change.
We cannot keep putting this off!

It is only going to get harder to remove it.