From: "Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner" <ed.odanow@...>
Date: 2007-10-13T03:52:57+09:00
Subject: Behaviour of String Objects - Why Not "Each" for Characters and Enumerable?

Hello, Ruby developer community!

I am now a little bit confused. It was 100% understandable for me, that method 
String#each was removed. The elements of a string are characters and not lines, 
and Ruby strings didn't care about the underlying encoding.

This is no longer valid, because the methods of class String now take care about 
  the encoding (I've got the infomation by RSS from 
http://eigenclass.org/hiki/Changes-in-Ruby-1.9-update-7).

I think this is a wonderful basis for a String#each method, which yields each 
character of the String object. In addition it makes real sense to include 
module Enumerable again.

Are there some plans related to this, or will String#each and module Enumerable 
disappear forever from class String? :-(

Wolfgang N�dasi-Donner