From: Phillip Hutchings <sitharus@...>
Date: 2006-07-07T07:39:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Converting Directory Names to Strings

On 7/7/06, Nathan Olberding <nathan.olberding@gmail.com> wrote:
> Phillip Hutchings wrote:
> >> 1) Why isn't x[0] a one-character string?
> >
> > Because it returns the character value of the first character.
>
> Okay. Is there a good reason for this? If you really want the character
> value, why not use an accessor? I'd like to understand the reasoning.

Ruby doesn't provide a character data type, so without this you'd be
unable to find the character value for it.

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Phillip Hutchings
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