Hi,

In message "Re: Symbol < String in Ruby > 1.8"
    on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:31:43 +0900, "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale / gmail.com> writes:

|In any event, this change SHOULD be less controversial than the fact
|that as of the current 1.9, Strings are no longer enumerable!
|
|$ irb1.9
|irb(main):001:0> "abc\ndef\n".sort
|NoMethodError: undefined method `sort' for "abc\ndef\n":String
|        from (irb):1:in `Kernel#binding'

Yes, insert ".lines" if you need Enumerable methods, e.g.

  "abc\ndef\n".lines.sort

for above code.

|Also there's no :chars, or :each_char, although "abc"[0] now gives
|"a" instead of 97.

You will have chars and each_chars along with other M17N
functionality.  I wanted merge it before RubyConf (to show Tim Bray
working code), but regretfully failed. ;-<

							matz.