Why Strings as Classes?

[Denis Koroskin]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:23:53 +0400, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>  
wrote:

> Robert Fraser:
>> It's a good feature to have (I wouldn't consider a list class complete
>> without it), it just shouldn't be abused.
>
> Its code:
>
> final Ref nth (int n) {
>     auto p = this;
>     for (int i; i < n; ++i)
>         p = p.next;
>     return p;
> }
>
> If the usage patterns show this is positive, then a static pointer/index  
> pair may be added, that keeps the last accessed pointer/index, this may  
> speed up things if the items are accessed sequentially, or even if they  
> are accessed with some several forward skips, avoiding starting from the  
> beginning each time :-)
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

I believe this breaks encapsulation, unless an iterator is returned and  
passed as a start. Find is a better name for such operation.