shuffle a character array

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 20 July 2016 at 17:31:18 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> I think both not being random access ranges and there is 
> auto-decoding in Phobos are design decisions due to the fact 
> that char[] is a multi-byte encoding.
>
> Phobos could choose not to auto-decode but char[] would still 
> be multi-byte, making it impossible to access randomly.

but it does happen that we have autodecoding, and 
non-random-access char ranges, and it is clearly tied. so, 
leaving aside "what if..." things, we can say that it is 
autodecoding issue. ;-)