From: Charles Mills <cmills@...>
Date: 2004-10-26T02:56:50+09:00
Subject: Re: [rcr] String#first / String#last

On Oct 25, 2004, at 10:15 AM, Hal Fulton wrote:
> In my mind, I blur the distinction between chars and "length 1" 
> strings.
>
> I am fully aware of the difference, but I rarely have need of 
> characters
> as Fixnums.
>
> Ruby in the future (as I understand it) will also blur this distinction
> further: Apparently ?x will be the same as "x" and "abc"[1] will be 
> "b".

That is good to hear.  I remember when I began learning Ruby I was put 
off/confused by the fact that String#[] returned a Fixnum when given a 
single index.

-Charlie