On Tuesday, March 03, 2015 08:50:35 Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > >> What is the type of char array holds why it does not matches char? > > Because D is schizophrenic ;) Phobos considers char[] arrays not to be > arrays of char, only ranges of dchar. Unless you talk to the compiler, > where it happily treats char[] as an array.
I think that at this point, most of the core developers think that auto-decoding was a mistake, but fixing it would definitely be a bit of a mess, and whenever it comes up, Andrei complains that we need to focus on other things and that we're blowing it out of proportion. :| I think that the auto-decoding was well-intentioned and an interesting experiment, but ultimately, it's causing too many problems... - Jonathan M Davis
