toString issue

[Hasan Aljudy]

Oskar Linde wrote:
> Hasan Aljudy wrote:
>> Derek Parnell wrote:
>>>   foreach(int i, dchar c; text)
>>>   {
>>>        bool isLetter = isUniAlpha( c );
>>>        ...
>>>   }
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I know, but that's still a work-around. What if you need to iterate 
>> back and forth? You're gonna need to convert it to dchar[] (or wchar[]).
>>
>> However, that brings up a good point:
>> Notice how foreach allows to iterate a string by Unicode characters 
>> (a.k.a code-points)? Shouldn't this kind of iteration be supported 
>> outside of foreach as well?
> 
> see std.utf.decode and std.utf.stride.
> 
> /Oskar

I have .. and I know the functions are all there. but hey, the C 
standard library also has all sorts of string processing functions.

I'm talking about the "built-in" string type, which doesn't really 
exist, even though the spec claims it does.