char array weirdness

[Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 29 March 2016 at 23:42:07 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Believe it or not, it was only last year (IIRC, maybe the year 
> before) that Walter "discovered" that Phobos does autodecoding, 
> and got pretty upset over it.  If even Walter wasn't aware of 
> this for that long...

The link (I think this is what you're referring to) to that 
discussion: 
http://forum.dlang.org/post/lfbg06$30kh$1@digitalmars.com

It's a shame Walter never got his way. Special casing ranges like 
this is a huge mistake.