no-autodecode -- game plan

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Wednesday, 19 August 2020 at 12:23:54 UTC, Steven 
Schveighoffer wrote:
> On 8/18/20 6:21 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Why not do it in std.v2021.*?
>> 
>
> What do you mean? Have a complete alternative phobos library?
>
> autodecoding infects so many other modules, so it would be 
> really hard to single out only some modules, we'd likely have 
> to make a copy of nearly everything.

Andrei's suggestion is a good idea to allow forward massive 
changes without breaking any existing code.

The only regret is we didn't think to version it like this from 
the start.

A copy of everything is an acceptable cost.