rust-lang/rust — pull request #15085 by brson (2014-06-21 20:36:17+00:00)
Title: rustc: Remove `&str` indexing from the language.

Being able to index into the bytes of a string encourages
poor UTF-8 hygiene. To get a view of `&[u8]` from either
a `String` or `&str` slice, use the `as_bytes()` method.

Closes #12710.

[breaking-change]

If the diffstat is any indication this shouldn't have a huge impact but it will have some. Most changes in the `str` and `path` module. A lot of the existing usages were in tests where ascii is expected. There are a number of other legit uses where the characters are known to be ascii.