Clojure and Pull Request Controversy

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 11/29/18 2:54 PM, 12345swordy wrote:
> On Thursday, 29 November 2018 at 18:40:13 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> On Thursday, 29 November 2018 at 18:33:07 UTC, 12345swordy wrote:
>>> You need one if you want to deprecate a language feature. There is no 
>>> alternative afaik.
>>
>> autodecode is not a language feature. It is a library function that is 
>> only called by other library functions.
> 
> Yet everyone here acts like it is a major deprecation, with different 
> opinions on how to handle it.

It is a major deprecation. The largest problem would be that strings all 
of a sudden would have an element type of char. I still think Phobos 
will handle this properly (or can be made to quite easily), but other 
code might not be so lucky.

But I don't know whether it requires a DIP or not. In any case, I'm 
going to try removing it and see what breaks. If the PR to "remove 
autodecode" from Phobos isn't that hairy, it may put a different light 
on what breakage may happen.

-Steve