On 01.06.2016 23:48, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
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.
It does not share most of the characteristics that make Phobos'
autodecoding painful in practice.
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
Agreed.
(But implicit conversion from char to dchar is a bad language rule.)
