Higher level built-in strings

[Rory McGuire]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:51:57 +0200, Rory McGuire <rmcguire at neonova.co.za>  
wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:08:06 +0200, Jesse Phillips  
> <jesse.k.phillips at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> But then you can't overload operators.
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Rory McGuire <rmcguire at neonova.co.za>  
>> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:51:51 +0200, Jesse Phillips
>>> <jessekphillips+d at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What about:
>>>>
>>>> struct String {
>>>>        string items;
>>>>        alias items this;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> And add the needed functions you wish to have in string and it will  
>>>> still
>>>> work in existing functions that operate on immutable(char)[]
>>>
>>> You shouldn't need to do that:
>>>
>>> string strstr(string haystack, string needle);
>>>
>>> can be used as:
>>>
>>> string s;
>>> s.strstr("needle");
>>>
>>> so you can add "methods" to a string or whatever just by defining  
>>> functions.
>>>
>>> -Rory
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> such as?

I mean is there not another way to do the same thing?