On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Donal K. Fellows
<donal.k.fellows@[...].uk>  wrote:
> 
>   I've no objections at all to doing a [string foreach], and a mock-up of
>   it can be scripted (OK, not fast but able to let people test the API)
>   right now. Then, if we like it, we can write the code to make it go like
>   greased lightning. (There'd be a need for some new bytecodes to support
>   it, but that's not a big deal, unlike changing the back-end behaviour of
>   the string internal representation.)

Now this part is clarified, may I ask about the strength of the motivation ?
Are there compelling examples of a need for [string foreach] except
for toy Huffmann encoders, toy base64-again, or even toy-parsers ?
Greased lightning for toys ?

-Alex

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