[#4766] Wiki — "Glen Stampoultzis" <trinexus@...>

21 messages 2000/09/04
[#4768] RE: Wiki — "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@...> 2000/09/04

Hi, Glen,

[#4783] Re: Wiki — Masatoshi SEKI <m_seki@...> 2000/09/04

[#4785] Re: Wiki — "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nakahiro@...> 2000/09/05

Howdy,

[#4883] Re-binding a block — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

16 messages 2000/09/12

[#4930] Perl 6 rumblings -- RFC 225 (v1) Data: Superpositions — Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>

Hi,

11 messages 2000/09/15

[#4936] Ruby Book Eng. translation editor's questions — Jon Babcock <jon@...>

20 messages 2000/09/16

[#5045] Proposal: Add constants to Math — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>

15 messages 2000/09/21

[#5077] Crazy idea? infix method calls — hal9000@...

This is a generalization of the "in" operator idea which I

17 messages 2000/09/22

[#5157] Compile Problem with 1.6.1 — Scott Billings <aerogems@...>

When I try to compile Ruby 1.6.1, I get the following error:

15 messages 2000/09/27

[ruby-talk:4822] Re: Some questions

From: Friedrich Dominicus <frido@...>
Date: 2000-09-07 07:26:23 UTC
List: ruby-talk #4822
> 
> No.  Of course, String and Array share many method as sequences.  But
> they are not identical.  String is a two face class.  A sequence of
> characters, and a sequence of lines. Some like [] etc. works on
> characters.  OTOH, each, sort, etc. works on lines.
> 
> Then, what do you think each_index should work on?
> Characters?  Lines?
> 
> Either case, somebody suppose the other one, and get confused.
> I think each_index for String is merely a source of confusion.
> This is the reason why there's no each_index in String.
> 
> Did I explain properly?

Yes, thanks. I was not aware that Strings beeing "two-dimensional". I
was just playing around with some things which should work either on
Arrays or Strings (or any Sequence) because of this I tried use
features which can be used in all Sequence classes.

Regards
Friedrich

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