Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin / yahoo.com> wrote:

> I agree.  We should have shift for String.

Disagree.  What wold the semantics of String#shift be?
What would it shift? Bytes? Characters? Words? Lines?

There is no clear notion of an "Element" in a String.

You can always use split or implement shift
yourself if you need it for a particular application.

-Levin