From: Enric Lafont <enric@1smart.com>
Date: 2002-11-04T05:58:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Ruby

Gavin Sinclair wrote:

>It's probably not intuitive to *anybody* (except perhaps Matz).  However, I see
>no particular justification for it being any other way, and in fact it's
>changing in 1.7 isn't it?  Anyway, my point is: you'll never forget it now.
>And if you're like me, you won't care either.
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>But to nitpick, a String is *not* an array of integers.  It is a String :)
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>Other options, if you're testing equality of an individual character:
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>  string[i] == ?x
>  string[i,1] == "x"
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OK, Gavin, you are right, it's an exception, you must deal with it, the 
problem is that Ruby has too many exceptions, and when I debug my 
programs, most of my errors are this exceptions. I'm starting, it's 
right, but it's very frustating when all the debuging is just for non 
orthogonal sintaxis, this denotes a lack of maturity in the language, 
and is one of the things I wanted to put on top of table, so someone can 
take a think on it.

Enric

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