Why the hell doesn't foreach decode strings

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-10-21 20:38, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 10/21/2011 2:51 AM, Martin Nowak wrote:
>> You have a good point here. I would have immediately thrown out the
>> loop AFTER
>> profiling.
>> What hits me here is that I had an incorrect program with built-in
>> unicode aware
>> strings.
>> This is counterintuitive to correct unicode handling throughout the
>> std library,
>> and even more to the complementary operation of appending any char
>> type to strings.
>
> I understand the issue, but I don't think it's resolvable. It's a lot
> like the signed/unsigned issue. Java got rid of it by simply not having
> any unsigned types.

Can't we implement a new string type that people can choose to use if 
they want. It will hide all the Unicode details that has been brought up 
by this thread.

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/Jacob Carlborg