On Sunday, 26 August 2018 at 22:44:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 8/26/2018 8:43 AM, Chris wrote:
I wanted to get rid of autodecode and I even offered to test
it on my string heavy code to see what breaks (and maybe write
guidelines for the transition), but somehow the whole idea of
getting rid of autodecode was silently abandoned. What more
could I do?
It's not silently abandoned. It will break just about every D
program out there. I have a hard time with the idea that
breakage of old code is inexcusable, so let's break every old
program?
Can I just throw in here that I like autodecoding and I think
it's good?
If you want ranges that iterate over bytes, then just use arrays
of bytes. If you want Latin1 text, use Latin1 strings. If you
want Unicode, you get Unicode iteration. This seems right and
proper to me. Hell I'd love if the language was *more* aggressive
about validating casts to strings.
