On 8/19/2010 03:56, Jonathan Davis wrote: > The problem is that chars are not characters. They are UTF-8 code > units.
So what? You're acting like 'char' (and specifically 'char[]') is some sort of unique special case. In reality, it's just one case of encoded data. What about compressed data? What about packed arrays of bits? What about other containers? There's a useful generic idiom for iterating over a sequence of A as if it was a sequence of B: the adapter range. Narrow strings aren't special enough to deserve special language support. -- Rainer Deyke - rain...@eldwood.com
