The Case Against Autodecode

[Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 28 May 2016 at 12:04:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> OK, that's a fair argument, thanks. So it seems there should be 
> no "default" way to iterate a string

Yes!

> So it harkens back to the original mistake: strings should NOT 
> be arrays with the respective primitives.

If you're proposing a library type, a la RCStr, as an alternative 
then yeah.