On 5/28/16 6:59 AM, Marc Schütz wrote:
The fundamental problem is choosing one of those possibilities over the others without knowing what the user actually wants, which is what both BEFORE and AFTER do.
OK, that's a fair argument, thanks. So it seems there should be no "default" way to iterate a string, and furthermore iterating for each constituent of a string should be fairly rare. Strings and substrings yes, but not individual points/units/graphemes unless expressly asked. (Indeed some languages treat strings as first-class entities and individual characters are mere short substrings.)
So it harkens back to the original mistake: strings should NOT be arrays with the respective primitives.
Andrei
