From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-02-21T13:36:51+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01532] Re: ruby <=> python

Hi,

I don't have easy mail <-> news gateway, so please forgive me for
replying here only.

In message "[ruby-talk:01529] Re: ruby <=> python"
    on 00/02/20, Yasushi Shoji <yashi@yashi.com> writes:

|> Characters are integers in ruby.
|> 'hello'[0]  -> 104
|
|no, there is only String class. all char is an instance of class
|String.  And, [] is a method in class String to get _char code_.
|
|ah... I noticed that ruby reference manual says:
|
|>    self[nth]
|>        Retrieves the nth character from a string.
|
|this should be fixed.

Hmm, may I describe:

    self[nth]
        Retrieves the nth BYTE value from a string.

Because Strings are actually byte strings in Ruby.