From: Nikolai Weibull <now@...>
Date: 2006-10-20T22:37:04+09:00
Subject: Re: String not enumerable, what about IO? (was Re: Symbol < String in Ruby > 1.8)

On 10/20/06, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: String not enumerable, what about IO? (was Re: Symbol < String in Ruby > 1.8)"
>     on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:49:47 +0900, Jim Weirich <jim@weirichhouse.org> writes:
>
> |I don't see how an enumerator is any less a "thing" than anything else.
>
> I think he assumes a "thins" should be more array-like than an
> enumerator.  Understandable.  I have a vague plan to create something
> more array-like (but lazy like generators) and make Enumerable#map
> etc. to return "that something".  It would have (almost) all the
> methods in Array.  If String#line would give us that something, David
> would not complain, I guess.
>
> The points left:

>   * the name of that something.

LazyArrayLikeThingGiver

  nikolai