From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2006-03-21T17:58:50+09:00
Subject: Re: iterate chars in a string

jogloran wrote:
> The thing I don't like about this behaviour is that an algorithm which
> operates on containers and expects #each can't work immediately with
> strings.

That's not true.  It just depends on what you consider to be the parts 
of a string.  I'd agree that naturally one would expect characters to be 
that - but "lines" is another option.  And that's the one that has been 
chose by Matz.  It has some advantages, too, e.g. if you slurp in a file 
into a single string and then want to iterate the lines.

Kind regards

	robert