On Wednesday, 1 June 2016 at 00:46:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
It is not practical to just delete or deprecate autodecode - it
is too embedded into things.
Which Things ?
The way to deal with it is to replace reliance on autodecode
with .byDchar (.byDchar has a bonus of not throwing an
exception on invalid UTF, but using the replacement dchar
instead.)
To that end, and this will be an incremental process:
....
So does this mean we intend to carry the auto-decoding wart with
us into the future. And telling everyone :
"The oblivious way is broken we just have it for backwards
compatibility ?"
To come back to c++ [] vs. std.vector.
The actually have valid reasons; mainly c compatibility.
To keep [] as a pointer.
I believe As of now D is still flexible enough to make a radical
change.
We cannot keep putting this off!
It is only going to get harder to remove it.
