From: Stephen White <steve@...>
Date: 2000-12-18T16:21:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7554] Re: flatten_by(n)

On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Ben Tilly wrote:

> Strings turn into arrays of characters?  I think I
> understand why but I still don't really like that.

  irb(main):024:0> "".to_a             -=> []
  irb(main):025:0> "f".to_a            -=> ["f"]
  irb(main):026:0> "fred".to_a         -=> ["fred"]
  irb(main):027:0> "fred hollows".to_a -=> ["fred hollows"]

I think it's a bug. "" should be converted to [""].

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