The Case Against Autodecode

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/27/16 6:26 AM, Kagamin wrote:
> As I understand, design rationale
> behind strings being plain arrays of code units is that it's impractical
> for the string to smarter than array of code units - it just won't cut
> it, while plain array provides simple and easy to understand
> implementation of string.

That's my understanding too. And I think the design rationale is wrong. 
-- Andrei