On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:18:59 -0500, Lutger <lutger.blijdest...@gmail.com>
wrote:
- why is a UTF-string iterator bidirectional and why is that unexpected?
I think it is wouldn't support random access since accessing the nth code
point (code points are similar to characters) is not a constant time
operation since different code points can be made up of different numbers
of bytes. That isn't necessarily intuitive since UTF-strings are stored
contiguously in memory; so you might expect them to be random-accessible.
