On Tuesday, 7 April 2015 at 09:21:52 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/7/2015 2:10 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
I think the correct solution to that is to kill auto-decoding
:) Then all
decoding is explicit, and since it is explicit, it is trivial
to allow
specifying the desired behavior upon encountering invalid
UTF-8.
I agree autodecoding is a mistake, but we're stuck with it.
I don't think we are stuck with it. I think we can change it. I
think a lot of the automatic decoding happens inside of Phobos,
while people care mostly about the boundaries of the API. If we
do get rid of it, then as Vladimir says, you can opt in to
whether or not you want a non-throwing conversion, or a throwing
one.
I was going to write about how the auto decoding doesn't solve
the problem of comparing strings, given that you need to look at
ranges of characters, subject to normalisation, unless you're
dealing with just ASCII. I think all of that has been said to
death, though. I think it's possible for us to get rid of
automatic decoding.
