From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-07-09T04:49:22+09:00
Subject: Re: is there a better string.each?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tobias Reif" <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: is there a better string.each?


> so what about a simple RCR, asking for
> 
>    String#chars
> , so that we can do
>    'foo'.chars #> ["f","o","o"]
> and
>    'foo'.chars.each do |char|
> perhaps plus String#each_char?

Better perhaps to try it in Ruby awhile
fbefore making an RCR:

class String
  def chars
    self.split("")
  end
  def each_char
    self.each_byte {|b| yield b.chr }
  end
end

Hal Fulton