On Thursday, 25 September 2014 at 21:03:53 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 9/25/2014 12:58 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 12:40:28PM -0700, Walter Bright via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 9/25/2014 4:08 AM, Don wrote:
[...]
Ask yourself, if D had no users other than you, so that you
break
*anything*, what would you remove? Make a wishlist, and then
find out
what's possible. Remember, when you did that before, we
successfully
got rid of 'bit', and there was practically no complaint.
Top of my list would be the auto-decoding behavior of
std.array.front() on character arrays. Every time I'm faced
with that
I want to throw a chair through the window.
LOL... now I'm genuinely curious what's Andrei's comment on
this. :-P
Last I heard, Andrei was against removing autodecoding.
I have yet to completely convince Andrei that autodecoding is a
bad idea :-(
I think it should just refuse to work on char[], wchar[] and
dchar[]. Instead, byCodeUnit, byCodePoint (which already exist)
would be required. This way, users would need to make a conscious
decision, and there would be no surprises and no negative
performance impact.
