string is rarely useful as a function argument

[Walter Bright]

On 12/28/2011 8:32 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Thursday, 29 December 2011 at 04:17:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> If we have two facilities (string and e.g. String) we've lost. We'd need to
>> slowly change the built-in string type.
>
> Have you actually tried to do it?

I've seen the damage done in C++ with multiple string types. Being able to 
convert from one to the other doesn't help much.