Narrow string is not a random access range

[mist]

On Tuesday, 23 October 2012 at 15:55:23 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 10/23/12 11:36 AM, mist wrote:
>> Was thinking on this topic after seeing this:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13014999/cannot-slice-taker-from-std-range-in-d
>>
>> Still can't understand rationale here. Why native slicing / 
>> random
>> access is allowed for narrow strings, but trait explicitly 
>> negates this?
>
> Historical mistake.
>
> Andrei

Is string random access gonna be deprecated some day then or this 
is considered a mistake we need to get used to? :)