On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh@earth.li> wrote:
I imagine this could be quite disruptive, but on the other hand people
using the String instance are getting silently broken behaviour and a
couple of people have been bitten by this recently.

I'm in favour of broken code breaking explicitly, rather than silently doing the wrong thing, so +1 to nuking the String instances in spite of the up-front pain.