From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-12-28T06:56:30+09:00
Subject: Re: split on '' (and another for split -1)

On Monday 27 December 2004 04:25 pm, trans.  (T. Onoma) wrote:
| A more informative explanation of this "paragraph mode" might actually be
| helpful.

Okay, I looked up what your were trying to explain to me. Sigh, it makes it 
even more complex. 

Firstly, the issue with -1 is still the actual problem I was pointing out: 
i.e. it appends an "" to the end of the array when split on "". 

And now thanks to "paragraph mode" I have another problem. While I was trying 
to make #first= and #last= work congruently with #each, which uses $/, it 
seems that paragraph mode actually subverts the potential for splitting on '' 
as a character mode. To do so one must use // instead, but...

  $/ = //
  TypeError: value of $/ must be String

Why not just have #each_paragraph for a "paragraph mode"?

T.