From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-10-25T23:25:20+09:00
Subject: Re: [rcr] String#first / String#last

On Monday 25 October 2004 09:49 am, Robert Klemme wrote:
| Yeah possibly.  Another problem with each_byte is that byte != char for
| many encodings.  But AFAIK #each_byte and #split(//) share this problem.
|
| I believe a drawback of using "foo".split(//) is that it's less
| performant: you need to create the tmp array plus all the string instances
| (although they share the buffer AFAIK).

I think this is a very interesting point. I wonder how Ruby 2 will progress in 
the area. Isn't i18N (not that I really know what that entails) on the map? 
How does that effect things. Is it then prudent to create an actual Character 
class, such that a String is essentially an Array of Characters? (not to say 
there won't be differences between Array and String, but in essence)

T.