On Thursday, 12 May 2016 at 20:15:45 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
2. Every time one wants an algorithm to work with both strings and ranges, you wind up special casing the strings to defeat the autodecoding, or to decode the ranges. Having to constantly special case it makes for more special cases when plugging together components. These issues often escape detection when unittesting because it is convenient to unittest only with arrays.
This is a great example of special casing in Phobos that someone showed me: https://github.com/dlang/phobos/blob/master/std/algorithm/searching.d#L1714
