It seems you are right, I have a feeling that this code use autodecoding:
foreach(c; someString){...}

but it seems it does not

https://run.dlang.io/is/YGgigJ

On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 7:45 PM Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
On Thursday, 29 November 2018 at 18:33:07 UTC, 12345swordy wrote:
> You need one if you want to deprecate a language feature. There
> is no alternative afaik.

autodecode is not a language feature. It is a library function
that is only called by other library functions.