Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

[Neia Neutuladh]

On Sunday, 26 August 2018 at 23:12:10 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote:
> On Sunday, 26 August 2018 at 22:44:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 8/26/2018 8:43 AM, Chris wrote:
>>> I wanted to get rid of autodecode and I even offered to test 
>>> it on my string heavy code to see what breaks (and maybe 
>>> write guidelines for the transition), but somehow the whole 
>>> idea of getting rid of autodecode was silently abandoned. 
>>> What more could I do?
>>
>> It's not silently abandoned. It will break just about every D 
>> program out there. I have a hard time with the idea that 
>> breakage of old code is inexcusable, so let's break every old 
>> program?
>>
> Can I just throw in here that I like autodecoding and I think 
> it's good?
> If you want ranges that iterate over bytes, then just use 
> arrays of bytes. If you want Latin1 text, use Latin1 strings. 
> If you want Unicode, you get Unicode iteration. This seems 
> right and proper to me. Hell I'd love if the language was 
> *more* aggressive about validating casts to strings.

Same here. I do make unicode errors more often than I'd care to 
admit (someString[$-1] being the most common; I need to write a 
lastChar helper function), but autodecoding means I can avoid 
that class of errors.