From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2006-06-15T17:05:46+09:00
Subject: Re: A plan for another unicode string hack

On 6/15/06, Dave Burt <dave@burt.id.au> wrote:
> Leslie Viljoen wrote:
> > On 6/14/06, Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 6/14/06, Dae San Hwang <daesan@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >    so that "abc"[0] returns "a" instead of fixnum 97
> >>
> >> This behaviour - of [] returning different values depending on the
> >> argument has always made me a bit crazy. Does anyone know why it was
> >> done that way?
> >
> > ..returning different *type* values I mean..
>
> I've heard it's due to be fixed by end of next year.
>
> Now, to Ruby's strings, a character is a byte, represented by a Fixnum.
>
> The new Ruby character will be a string:
>
> ?c  #=> "c"
> "c"[0]  #=> "c"
> "c"[0].ord  #=> 99

Yahoo!