From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2007-04-24T18:21:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Question regarding design of the String Class

From: Michael W. Ryder [mailto:_mwryder@worldnet.att.net] 
# If I were getting back a character or string I would not have 
# a problem. The problem is that every other use of [] in the string 
# class returns a string or nil, this one returns an integer.  I was 
# curious if this was necessary for some other part of the language 
# or just an "accident".

evolution perhaps? ruby caters low/old to high-level/newer problem domains, from specific to general, so...

http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/futurismUnicodeInRuby.html

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