From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-02-29T13:43:11+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01638] Re: ruby <=> python

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:01634] Re: ruby <=> python"
    on 00/02/29, Mirko Nasato <mirko.nasato@libero.it> writes:

|The String class has a each_byte method, which (from the Reference Manual)
|"iterates over each character of the string".
|
|So, a character and a byte seems to be the same thing.  As in C, after all.

Hmm, it should have been "iterates over each byte of the string".
Because a charactger may be represented by sequence of bytes.

							matz.