A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
there is no reason that this shouldn't work:

  String text = "whatever"
   for (char c : text) { ... }


JUSTIFICATION :
this is exactly the reason that the 'foreach' construct was added - to simplify code where you're iterating over containers with similar values. it should be trivial to implement.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
the above syntax should work.
ACTUAL -
you need this more complex code:

  String text = "whatever"
  for (int i = 0, len = text.length(); i < len; i++) {
    char c = text.charAt(i);
    ...
  }
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