From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2001-09-11T22:45:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21141] Re: Char Class

On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Jonathan Brannan wrote:

> Just wondering if there is any reason there is no Char class.  It would seem
> much cleaner to do alot of things with Char, and being able to cast between
> int, char, and string quicky.  like if you did something = string[x], which
> retruns a number i would think somthing.to_char would be something that
> should exist....

Here I think Ruby is showing some of its C roots?  All string elements in
Ruby are integers.  Check out Integer#chr for converting integers back to
strings.  There's been some discussion on this ML before; see
[ruby-talk:16982].

Paul