On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 06:00:12PM +0000, w0rp via Digitalmars-d wrote: > 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.
If somebody were to write a DIP for killing autodecoding, I'd vote in favor. Getting it past Andrei, OTOH, is a different story. ;-) T -- Never trust an operating system you don't have source for! -- Martin Schulze
