Why not alias string so that one can easily switch from the old
string or wstring, etc?
e.g., rename string internally to sstring or whatever.
then globally define
alias string = sstring;
Which can be over realiased to wstring to affect the whole program
alias string = wstring;
Or use a command line to set it or whatever makes you happy.
I'm in the progress of converting a large source code database to
use the above technique so we can move to using wstring... it is
not fun. Most code that works with a string should with any
string encoding, so it shouldn't matter. Making D string
agnostic(after all, the only main different in 99% of programs is
the space they take up).
If you are worried about it causing subtle bugs, then don't...
because those same bugs would occur if one manually had to switch.
By designing techniques to use strings that are agnostic of there
internal representation should save a lot of headache. For those
few cases that it matters, simple static analysis works fine.
