Should this work?

[Manu]

On 10 January 2014 00:34, John Colvin <john.loughran.colvin at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thursday, 9 January 2014 at 14:08:02 UTC, Manu wrote:
>
>> This works fine:
>>   string x = find("Hello", 'H');
>>
>> This doesn't:
>>   string y = find(retro("Hello"), 'H');
>>   > Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (find(retro("Hello"),
>> 'H'))
>> of type Result!() to string
>>
>
> In order to return the result as a string it would require an allocation.
> You have to request that allocation (and associated eager evaluation)
> explicitly
>
> string y = "Hello".retro.find('H').to!string;
>

Ah yes. Well I really just want the offset anyway...


However, I think to get the expected result from unicode you need
>
> string y = "Hello".byGrapheme.retro.find('H').to!string;
>
> but I might be wrong.
>

Bugger that. This is not an example of "D is good at strings!".
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