Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

[Walter Bright]

On 8/26/2018 8:43 AM, Chris wrote:
> I wanted to get rid of autodecode and I even offered to test it on my string 
> heavy code to see what breaks (and maybe write guidelines for the transition), 
> but somehow the whole idea of getting rid of autodecode was silently abandoned. 
> What more could I do?

It's not silently abandoned. It will break just about every D program out there. 
I have a hard time with the idea that breakage of old code is inexcusable, so 
let's break every old program?

> But what for was it 
> introduced at all and why wasn't it thought through properly right from the start?

Because nobody thought about that issue before. A lot of things only become 
apparent in hindsight.