std.experimental.collections.rcstring and its integration in Phobos

[jmh530]

On Wednesday, 18 July 2018 at 11:56:39 UTC, Seb wrote:
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>> I think part of the above design decision connects in with why 
>> rcstring stores the data as ubytes, even for wchar and dchar. 
>> Recent comments suggest that it is related to auto-decoding.
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> Yes rcstring doesn't do any auto-decoding and hence stores its 
> data as an ubyte array.
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>> My sense is that an rcstring that does not have auto-decoding, 
>> even if it requires more work to get working with phobos is a 
>> better solution over the long-run.
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> What do you mean by this?

Just that there are a lot of complaints about D's auto-decoding 
of strings. Not doing any auto-decoding seems like a good 
long-run design decision, even if it makes some things more 
difficult.