RFC: moving forward with @nogc Phobos

[Sean Kelly via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 1 October 2014 at 08:55:55 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 9/30/14, 9:10 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
>>
>> Is this for exposition purposes or actually how you expect it 
>> to work?
>
> That's pretty much what it would take. The key here is that 
> RCString is almost a drop-in replacement for string, so the 
> code using it is almost identical. There will be places where 
> code needs to be replaced, e.g.
>
> auto s = "literal";
>
> would need to become
>
> S s = "literal";
>
> So creation of strings will change a bit, but overall there's 
> not a lot of churn.

I'm confused.  Is this a general-purpose solution or just one 
that switches between string and RCString?