DIP76: Autodecode Should Not Throw

[Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d]

On Tue, 7 Apr 2015 11:16:16 -0700
"H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d" <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 06:00:12PM +0000, w0rp via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 7 April 2015 at 09:21:52 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> > >On 4/7/2015 2:10 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> > >>I think the correct solution to that is to kill auto-decoding :)
> > >>Then all decoding is explicit, and since it is explicit, it is
> > >>trivial to allow specifying the desired behavior upon encountering
> > >>invalid UTF-8.
> > >
> > >I agree autodecoding is a mistake, but we're stuck with it.
> > 
> > I don't think we are stuck with it. I think we can change it. I think
> > a lot of the automatic decoding happens inside of Phobos, while people
> > care mostly about the boundaries of the API. If we do get rid of it,
> > then as Vladimir says, you can opt in to whether or not you want a
> > non-throwing conversion, or a throwing one.
> > 
> > I was going to write about how the auto decoding doesn't solve the
> > problem of comparing strings, given that you need to look at ranges of
> > characters, subject to normalisation, unless you're dealing with just
> > ASCII. I think all of that has been said to death, though. I think
> > it's possible for us to get rid of automatic decoding.
> 
> If somebody were to write a DIP for killing autodecoding, I'd vote in
> favor.
> 
me too