On Sunday, 28 September 2014 at 23:06:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Note that autodecode does not always happen - it doesn't happen for ranges of chars. It's very hard to look at piece of code and tell if autodecode is going to happen or not.
Arguably, this means we need to unify the behavior of strings, and "string-like" objects. Pointing to an inconsistency doesn't mean the design is flawed and void.
