On Dec 27, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Luis Lavena wrote: > If gem/lib developers aren't using low string processing (like mtaz > showed in his rubyconf presentation) I guess there will no be issues > with compatibilities. If you call zip() anywhere, your code is probably broken now. If you ever assumed a String was a collection of lines, you have issues. I think the damage is more widespread than you think. James Edward Gray II