Walter Bright:
It can work just fine, and I wrote it. The problem is convincing someone to pull it :-( as the PR was closed and reopened with autodecoding put back in.
Perhaps you need a range2 and algorithm2 modules. Introducing your changes in a sneaky way may not produce well working and predictable user code.
I know that you care about performance - you post about it often. I would expect that unnecessary and pervasive decoding would be of concern to you.
I care first of all about program correctness (that's why I proposed unusual things like optional strong typing for built-in array indexes, or I proposed the "enum preconditions"). Secondly I care for performance in the functions or parts of code where performance is needed. There are plenty of code where performance is not the most important thing. That's why I have tons of range-base code. In such large parts of code having short, correct, nice looking code that looks correct is more important. Please don't assume I am simple minded :-)
Bye, bearophile
