From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2002-07-09T22:46:25+09:00
Subject: Re: String#each

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> |That will be great for iterating over the characters. What will be a
> |good way to get an array of characters from multibyte strings? (probably
> |something that already exists)
> 
> Not yet.  Anyone?
> 
> chars, explode_chars, ... hmm

Well, split() is fine with me in this case.  I don't think it is unintuitive 
from breaking a String up into an array; I just didn't think it was very 
intuitive or efficient for itterating over characters.  In this case, 
you're making a new array anyway, so this would be fine for me.

If you, Matz, know that there's a more efficient way of creating an Array of 
Characters (which, I assume, will be Strings) from a String, then yes.  I 
would like to have a chars() method.  However, if everything is basically 
going to boil down to an internal split(), can we just use split()?

--- SER