std.experimental.collections.rcstring and its integration in Phobos

[Seb]

On Tuesday, 17 July 2018 at 17:41:05 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2018-07-17 17:21, Seb wrote:
>
>> - _no_ range by default (it needs an explicit 
>> `.by!{d,w,}char`) (as in no auto-decoding by default)
>> 
>> What do you think about this approach? Do you have a better 
>> idea?
>
> I vote for .by!char to be the default.

The problem here is this would also lead to very confusing 
behavior for newcomers, e.g.

```
"ä".split.join("|") == �|�
```