The Case Against Autodecode

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/1/16 6:24 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 06/01/2016 06:09 PM, ZombineDev wrote:

>> Deprecating front, popFront and empty for narrow
>> strings is what we are talking about here.
>
> That will not happen. Walter and I consider the cost excessive and the
> benefit too small.

If this doesn't happen, then all this push to change anything in Phobos 
is completely wasted effort. As long as arrays aren't treated like 
arrays, we will have to deal with auto-decoding.

You can change string literals to be something other than arrays, and 
then we have a path forward. But as long as char[] is not an array, we 
have lost the battle of sanity.

-Steve