From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2007-02-06T14:44:32+09:00
Subject: Re: String.ord

Hi,

In message "Re: String.ord"
    on Tue, 6 Feb 2007 12:28:12 +0900, David Flanagan <david@davidflanagan.com> writes:

|> I just followed Python convention here.
|
|Ah ha.  I don't know Python well enough, or maybe I would have realized 
|that.
|
|It still seems to me that there ought to be a way to get the 1.8 
|behavior in a single method call rather than having to call [] and then 
|call ord on the result.  If you don't want to modify ord to accept an 
|index, Would you consider ordAt(x) or codepoint(x) or something like that?

Both having ordAt(index) or making String#ord to return codepoint of
the first character are trivial.  We have to evaluate pros and cons
first.

							matz.