The Case Against Autodecode

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 2 June 2016 at 21:56:10 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Yes, you have a good point. But we do allow things like:
>
>    byte b;
>    if (b == 10000) ...

Why allowing char/wchar/dchar comparisons is wrong:

void main()
{
     string s = "Привет";
     foreach (c; s)
         assert(c != 'Ñ');
}

 From my post from 2014:

http://forum.dlang.org/post/knrwiqxhlvqwxqshyqpy@forum.dlang.org