Type Summary

						public sealed class CharEnumerator : IEnumerator,
                                   ICloneable
{
  // Properties
     public char Current { get; }

  // Methods
     public object Clone ();
     public bool MoveNext ();
     public void Reset ();

  // Explicit Interface Members
     object IEnumerator.Current { get; }
}

BA Our reason for adding this class to the BCL was not that we felt there was a huge demand for enumerating characters. It was required to enable efficient support for applying foreach over strings. Simply using IEnumerator would have caused a boxing operation for each character accessed out of the string.

string s = "John Smith";
foreach (char c in  s) {
   Console.WriteLine ("{0}-", c);
}

A side note on this is that the C# compiler now does not even use this class. It special-cases ...

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