The Case Against Autodecode

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 13 May 2016 at 13:17:44 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/13/2016 2:12 AM, Chris wrote:
>> If autodecode is killed, could we have a test version asap? 
>> I'd be willing to
>> test my programs with autodecode turned off and see what 
>> happens. Others should
>> do likewise and we could come up with a transition strategy 
>> based on what happened.
>
> You can avoid autodecode by using .byChar

Hm. It would be difficult to make sure that my whole code base 
doesn't do something, somewhere that doesn't trigger auto decode.

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