From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2002-07-08T04:26:25+09:00
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.


Precisely; no more than I would say a String "is a"[n] Array.  A
string is a string.  If, in ruby, we want to implement it as an
array, fair enough.

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