On Tuesday, 7 April 2015 at 07:42:02 UTC, w0rp wrote:
Maybe autodecoding could throw an Error (No 'new' allowed) when debug mode is on, and use replacement characters in release mode. I haven't thought it through, but that's an idea.
No no no, terrible idea. This means your program will pass your test suite in debug mode (which, of course, is never going to test behavior with bad UTF in all the relevant places), but silently corrupt real-world data in release mode. Errors and asserts are for logic errors, not for validating user input!
