From: Jim Weirich Date: 2002-07-07T07:23:18+09:00 Subject: Re: is there a better string.each? >>>>> "Sean" == Sean Russell writes: Sean> Michael Campbell wrote: >> I don't think that "ordered set of characters" implies "Array". Sean> I don't know of a better definition of "Array" than "an Sean> ordered set of somethings". Technically, arrays aren't sets. An element may appear in an array more than once. Sean> Linked lists are also ordered sets of somethings; arrays Sean> just have a particular customary implementation in Sean> computers. Still, people tend to deal with strings the same Sean> way they deal with arrays, as opposed to linked lists. Really? I tend to deal with arrays element by element. With strings, I usually deal with chunks (i.e. slices) or the entire thing at once. I usually don't equate a string with an array of characters. They are different animals in my mind. I think that's part of the problem. Everyone is coming into this with their own preconceptions of strings and arrays, and they aren't matching. -- -- Jim Weirich jweirich@one.net http://w3.one.net/~jweirich --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)