Bug #1487: String#each_char must return self http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/1487 Author: Marc-Andre Lafortune Status: Open, Priority: Low Category: core, Target version: 1.9.2 ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2dev (2009-05-19 trunk 23489) [i386-darwin9.7.0] str.each_char{} currently returns a copy of str. It should return self. This also affects Ruby 1.8.7 Poor man's diff for rb_str_each_char: rb_encoding *enc; + VALUE orig = str; RETURN_ENUMERATOR(str, 0, 0); str = rb_str_new4(str); ... - return str; + return orig; ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org