New names - 2.068 roundup

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:28:46AM +0000, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 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.
[...]

Yet another nail in the coffin of autodecoding. I really wish we had
toughed it out earlier and begun phasing it out. It's kinda late for
that now... but maybe it might still be worth it?


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