Creeping Bloat in Phobos

[monarch_dodra via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 28 September 2014 at 23:06:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Note that autodecode does not always happen - it doesn't happen 
> for ranges of chars. It's very hard to look at piece of code 
> and tell if autodecode is going to happen or not.

Arguably, this means we need to unify the behavior of strings, 
and "string-like" objects. Pointing to an inconsistency doesn't 
mean the design is flawed and void.