From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2004-05-03T10:52:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of Strings in Range

Hi,

In message "Re: Strange behaviour of Strings in Range"
    on 04/05/03, Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:

|But here are some related questions, to get more specific:
|
|1. Will str[0] always be a Fixnum?

Rite gives 1 char string for str[0].

|2. Will ?x always be a Fixnum?

It will be 1 char string.

|3. In addition to each_byte, would each_char make sense? As I see it,
|it would default to be the same as each_byte, but would be replaced
|for a wide-char or multibyte variable-length encoding.

It makes sense, but I've not decided yet to add it.

							matz.