Autodecode in the wild and An Awful Hack to std.regex

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 28 July 2016 at 21:02:59 UTC, John Carter wrote:
> On Thursday, 28 July 2016 at 15:48:58 UTC, Seb wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Eh. I hoped that somewhere in that explosion of discussion on 
> the topic the problem had been solved and I had just missed it 
> and merely had to use that.
>
> Also this idea is a bit immature for a DIP... I haven't look at 
> the regex code beyond the the stack trace it died on.
>
> ie.
>
> * Would this even be a Good Idea for a dip or is it better 
> solve by another existing means?
> * I only inspected and changed one occurrence of decode (the 
> one that broke) is there any other route in the regex engine 
> that could throw a UTFException?
> * Would adding an additional template parameter with default 
> break existing code? Or would I have to provide a shim?

I suggest you talk to Dmitry, who wrote std.regex, as he will be 
motivated to look into this.