On Tuesday, 6 March 2018 at 18:17:58 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
I'm not actually convinced that killing auto-decoding is really
much better.
I don't think the problem is auto-decoding in string range
adapters, but repeated validation.
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14519#c32
If you know that sth. works on code units just use
.representation.
There is the related annoyance when the user of a function
presumably knows to only deal with ASCII strings but algorithms
fail, e.g. splitter.popBack or binary search. This one is tricky
because broken unicode support is often rooted in ignoring it's
existence.
