Why Strings as Classes?

[Walter Bright]

Benji Smith wrote:
> I don't know a whole lot about the STL,

STL is a piece of brilliance in C++ (and one can reasonably argue that 
STL saved C++). The design of STL solves the problems you are talking about.

Andrei has been hard at work getting equivalent functionality into the D 
library (see http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/phobos/std_algorithm.html).