From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2002-07-08T18:49:25+09:00
Subject: Re: is there a better string.each?

>>>>> "S" == Sean Russell <ser@germane-software.com> writes:

S> And what /I'm/ saying is: it looks like an array, it acts like an array, it 
S> has a practically identical method set as an array, and -- hey! -- it 
S> happens to be implemented as an array.  It is an array.

 If a string is an array, just try to make a RCO from it.

S> Y'know, the original argument wasn't whether a String is an Array, but 
S> rather that a String is an array (notice the lower case 'A') of characters, 
S> and that it should act as such.

 For me it's a sequence of bytes or characters.

S>                                I don't give a rotten apple about how it 
S> is internally implemented, as long as it is reasonably fast.  But when 
S> dealing with Strings, I usually, at some point, find myself wishing for a 
S> quick, easy, intuitive mechanism for itterating over the atomic units of a 
S> String: the characters.

 Personnaly I work with bytes, not characters.


Guy Decoux