From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2006-10-18T00:25:01+09:00
Subject: Re: String not enumerable, what about IO? (was Re: Symbol < String in Ruby > 1.8)

Hi,

At Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:01:11 +0900,
Rick DeNatale wrote in [ruby-core:09218]:
> One little quirk I just noticed is that String#lines seems to ignore a
> block argument.
> irb(main):002:0> "abc\ndef".lines {|l| puts l}
> => #<Enumerable::Enumerator:0xb7cec20c>
> 
> This is at odds with what the various each methods do:
> irb(main):003:0> (1..3).each
> => #<Enumerable::Enumerator:0xb7ce39e0>
> irb(main):004:0> (1..3).each {|num| puts num}
> 1
> 2
> 3
> => 1..3

/each.*/ !~ "lines".

Or, lines is just an alias of each_line.

-- 
Nobu Nakada