On 05/31/2016 01:15 PM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
The standard library has to fight against itself because of autodecoding! The vast majority of the algorithms in Phobos are special-cased on strings in an attempt to get around autodecoding. That alone should highlight the fact that autodecoding is problematic.
The way I see it is it's specialization to speed things up without giving up the higher level abstraction. -- Andrei
