Proposal for fixing dchar ranges

[John Colvin]

On Monday, 10 March 2014 at 17:54:49 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:06:08 -0400, Brad Anderson 
> <eco at gnuk.net> wrote:
>
>> It seems like this would be an even bigger breaking change 
>> than Walter's proposal though (right or wrong, slicing strings 
>> is very common).
>
> You're the second person to mention that, I was not planning on 
> disabling string slicing. Just random access to individual 
> chars, and probably .length.
>
> -Steve

How is slicing any better than indexing?