Re: Ruby stupidities

On 8/30/07, Kenneth McDonald <kenneth.m.mcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Having said that, here's my first entry. I think it's utterly stupid
(can you tell I just wasted some time tracking this down?) that

"abc"[0] == "a"

is false. Why doesn't that work? Because, with a single index, the array
access operator on a string returns, not the character at the given
position, but the _character code_ of the character at that position.

It would be useful if you actually looked what's happening in the
future: this will be changed for Ruby 1.9. It is, in fact, a sensible
choice to make given the nature of strings in Ruby.

-austin
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