From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2009-04-08T23:39:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:23163] Re: 1.8.8 warning with Array("string")

On Apr 8, 2009, at 12:14 AM, Eero Saynatkari wrote:

> Excerpts from drbrain's message of Wed Apr 08 07:10:36 +0300 2009:
>>
>> $ ruby18 -ve 'p Array("multi-line\nstring")'
>> ruby 1.8.8dev (2009-04-06 revision 23143) [i386-darwin9.6.0]
>> -e:1: warning: treating String as Enumerable object is deprecated;  
>> use
>> String#each_line/lines
>> ["multi-line\n", "string"]
>>
>> <snip />
>>
>> PS: I really wouldn't mind if this last instance returned ["multi- 
>> line
>> \nstring"]
>
> Yes, it should follow to_ary? -> to_a? -> [obj].

I agree.

James Edward Gray II