From: Xevious <xevious@...>
Date: 2005-05-19T12:40:07+09:00
Subject: Re: accessing each character of a string

Assaph Mehr wrote:
> Pe�a, Botp wrote:
> 
>>From this, i think a[1] is the odd one out.
>>I'd prefer a[1] #=> "e"
> 
> I tend to agree, but I long since came to believe that Matz knows
> better than me :-)
> I'm sure there's a good reason why it's made this way even if it's not
> immediately obvious.

Because a[1] is a single char - not a "string" of chars.

OTOH, the range returns string so a[1..1] returns a string
containing 1 char.

xev