From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-07-08T03:39:46+09:00
Subject: Re: is there a better string.each?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Campbell" <michael_s_campbell@yahoo.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 11:21 PM
Subject: Re: is there a better string.each?


> Someone else mentioned earlier what's been bugging me about this;
> although you may like to think of strings as arrays, the array bit is
> just an implementation choice.  The thing is not necessarily its
> implementation.

Yes, quite right. A linked list is also an
ordered collection of items. Yet we wouldn't
say that a string "is a" linked list.

Hal Fulton