string is rarely useful as a function argument

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Wednesday, 28 December 2011 at 20:01:15 UTC, foobar wrote:
> I'd also like a transition of the string related functions to 
> this type. the previous ones can remain as simple 
> wrappers/aliases/whatever for backwards compatibility.

I actually like strings just the way they are... but if
we had to change, I'm sure we can do a good job in the
library relatively easily.