From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2002-07-09T05:52:08+09:00
Subject: Re: is there a better string.each?

if/when $/ accepts regexps, what about '' as a seperator meaning each
character instead of multiple successive \n's?  to me this seems a
dubious equality --an exception caused by the lack of $/ accepting
regexps. if so, each_char (each_chr?) would technically be unneccessary,
but i wouldn't mind it being there too, along side each_byte and
each_line.

also i don't know if we need two seperate methods (e.g. #each_line vs.
#lines) for iterating over a block versus returning an array. the same
method can be used for both, depending on whether a block is given or
not. right?

~transami

On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 13:52, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 04:41:04 +0900, Tobias Reif wrote:
> > Tom Sawyer wrote:
> >> but that left us with no equivalent to the fictional #each_chr,
> > 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?
> 
> I think that this could work. I also think that an RCR should be
> done so that $/ (and the argument to String#each) can be a regexp.
> 
> -austin
> -- Austin Ziegler, austin@halostatue.ca on 2002.07.08 at 15.51.04
> 
> 
> 
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