Why Strings as Classes?

[Benji Smith]

superdan wrote:
> Benji Smith Wrote:
>> A char[] is actually an array of UTF-8 encoded octets, where each 
>> character may consume one or more consecutive elements of the array. 
>> Retrieving the str.length property may or may not tell you how many 
>> characters are in the string. And pretty much any code that tries to 
>> iterate character-by-character through the array elements is 
>> fundamentally broken.
> 
> try this:
> 
> foreach (dchar c; str)
> {
>     process c
> }

Cool. I had no idea that was possible. I was doing this:

   myFunction(T)(T[] array) {
     foreach(T c; array) {
       doStuff(c);
     }
   }

--benji