From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-04-16T10:56:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Knight's Travails (#27)

On Apr 15, 2005, at 8:50 PM, Pe�a, Botp wrote:

>
> irb(main):016:0> x="string"[0]
> => 115
>
> irb(main):021:0> x.chr
> => "s"
>
> # or
>
> irb(main):022:0> x="string"[0].chr
> => "s"
>
>
>
> i was hoping to get
>
> irb(main):016:0> x="string"[0]
> => "s"
>
> thinking that a string is a sequence of chars. i do not want to think 
> char
> as int (or long :); it feels like asm/hardcoreC prgg...

irb(main):001:0> "string"[0, 1]
=> "s"

I believe it's planned to have "string"[0] return "s" in Ruby 2, as 
well.

James Edward Gray II