From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-07-09T13:47:17+09:00
Subject: Re: is there a better string.each?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean Russell" <ser@germane-software.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: is there a better string.each?


> 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.

Sorry, I guess I missed something. I didn't
realize that performance was an issue in this
discussion.

On a side note: As a rule, I think it's better
to write "interim" code in Ruby (and experiment
with it) before changing the core. That's not
to say that such a change is precluded forever.

Hal Fulton