On Friday, May 27, 2016 04:31:49 Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Thursday, 26 May 2016 at 16:00:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu > >> 9. Autodecode cannot be turned off, i.e. it isn't practical to > >> avoid > >> importing std.array one way or another, and then autodecode is > >> there. > > > > Turning off autodecoding is as easy as inserting > > .representation after any string. (Not to mention using > > indexing directly.) > > This is neither easy nor practical. It makes writing reliable > string handling code a chore in D. Because it is difficult to > find all places where this must be done, it is not possible to do > on a program-wide scale, thus bugs can only be discovered when > this or that component fails because it was not tested with > Unicode strings.
In addition, as soon as you have ubyte[], none of the string-related functions work. That's fixable, but as it stands, operating on ubyte[] instead of char[] is a royal pain. - Jonathan M Davis
