On 06/01/2016 05:30 PM, Jack Stouffer wrote:
On Wednesday, 1 June 2016 at 19:52:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:foreach (dchar x; a) {} The latter two do autodecoding, not coversion as the rest of the language.This seems to be a miscommunication with semantics. This is not auto-decoding at all; you're decoding, but there is nothing "auto" about it. This code is an explicit choice by the programmer to do something.
No, this is autodecoding pure and simple. We can't move the goals whenever we don't like where the ball gets. The usual language rules are not applied for strings - they are autodecoded (i.e. there's code generated that magically decodes UTF surprisingly for beginners, in apparent violation of the language rules, and without any user-visible request) by the foreach statement. -- Andrei
