New names - 2.068 roundup

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 24 June 2015 at 11:12:27 UTC, John Chapman wrote:
> On Wednesday, 24 June 2015 at 01:04:01 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> The code breakage is minimal
>
> Won't this break isSomeString? Phobos uses this everywhere.

It won't break isSomeString. isSomeString will continue to work 
the same. What it will mean is that the result of toLower won't 
pass isSomeString anymore, and if you pass it to a range-based 
function which has an overload for strings, it won't match it and 
will be treated the same as a range like FilterResult and not get 
the string optimizations. If you want it to actually be a string, 
then you'll need to use to!string on it (even std.array.array 
wouldn't work, since that would convert it to dchar[], not 
string).

So, that could be a reason why this isn't a great idea, but it 
once again highlights why having autodecoding is a bad idea, and 
it shows that as we increase how much we're doing with functions 
which return lazy ranges, the cost of having autodecoding will 
only increase, because we'll being dealing with strings directly 
less and less.

- Jonathan M Davis