From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2002-07-09T13:05:39+09:00
Subject: Re: is there a better string.each?

Hal E. Fulton wrote:

> 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


As I've said before, this is a nice solution, Hal.  However, I would expect 
that native support for this would be faster, and when one is itterating 
over characters, speed can quickly become an issue.  I was hoping for 
something faster than split(''), which is also not very memory efficient, 
creating an arbitrary Array object in the process.

--- SER