Why the hell doesn't foreach decode strings

[Timon Gehr]

On 10/22/2011 09:37 PM, kennytm wrote:
> Walter Bright<newshound2 at digitalmars.com>  wrote:
>> On 10/22/2011 2:21 AM, Peter Alexander wrote:
>>> Which operations do you believe would be less efficient?
>>
>> All of the ones that don't require decoding, such as searching, would be
>> less efficient if decoding was done.
>
> You can std.algorithm.find to do searching, not foreach. The former can
> decide whichever efficient method to use.

Afaics the current std.algorithm.find implementation decodes its arguments.