Making generalized Trie type in D

[Roman D. Boiko]

On Monday, 4 June 2012 at 21:39:50 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> And before you run away with that horrible idea of ever 
> decoding UTF in lexer... Just don't do that. Trust me, it's not 
> as small a price as it seems at first. At least keep it only at 
> prototype stage as it simplifies things.
I didn't plan to convert input into some other encoding. But 
missed the idea that it is possible to create finite automata as 
a template and avoid decoding altogether. IIRC, I rejected this 
approach when decided to convert everything into UTF-8 long ago, 
and didn't reconsider after discarding that idea after your 
previous suggestion to avoid converting. Thus your idea was used 
only partially, and now I wonder how did I not discover this 
myself! :)