Reality drives me to write less clean code, sorry for mistakenly posting in D.announce

[Charles D Hixson]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Mike Parker wrote:
>> davidl wrote:
>>>
>>> First practice:
>>>
>>> char[] text;
>>> char* p;
>>> char* end;
>>>
>>
>> Pointer arithmetic in D is a no-no, unless you are using memory 
>> allocated outside of the GC. 
> 
> That's news to me.  There's nothing wrong with using pointers, it's just 
> more verbose and error prone than foreach.
> 
>> To iterate over a D string, or any array, use foreach:
>>
>> foreach(c; text)
>> {
>>    // do something with c
>> }
> 
> .... or use foreach(dchar c; text) if you care about handling non-ascii 
> properly.
I've seen several comments against it, but I don't know how 
authoritative they were.

OTOH, you could easily be doing strange things to the garbage 
collector.  Even if it's safe, I wouldn't expect it to be 
efficient (unless you turned off the garbage collector).