From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-07-08T04:35:55+09:00
Subject: Re: is there a better string.each?

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From: "Tom Sawyer" <transami@transami.net>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: is there a better string.each?


> > 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
> 
> not to be mean, but this is just the worst logic:
> 
> "Yes, quite right. A *cat* is also an *animal*.
>  Yet we wouldn't say that a *parrot* "is a" *cat*."
> 
> no one has said anything to the effect that a string is a linked list.

But you were saying that a string is an array 
because it's an ordered collection of elements.
By that logic, a string is also a linked list,
no?

A string is not intrinsically an array any more 
than it is intrinsically a linked list.

Hal Fulton