Should this work?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/9/14 4:34 PM, Manu wrote:
> On 10 January 2014 03:40, John Colvin <john.loughran.colvin at gmail.com
> <mailto:john.loughran.colvin at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Thursday, 9 January 2014 at 17:39:00 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>
>         On Thursday, 9 January 2014 at 14:08:02 UTC, Manu wrote:
>
>               string y = find(retro("Hello"), 'H');
>
>
>         import std.string;
>         auto idx = lastIndexOf("Hello", 'H');
>
>         Wow, that's unbelievable difficult. D sucks.
>
>
>     How on earth did I miss that...
>
>
> I have to wonder the same thing.
> It's just not anything like anything I've ever called it before I guess.
> I guess I started with find, and then it refers you to retro if you want
> to reverse find, and of course, by this time I'm nowhere near std.string
> anymore. Hard to find something if you're not even looking in the same
> file :/

Probably an xref of indexOf/lastIndexOf in find would be useful. PRP

Andrei