If you want the string as an array, you can do it natively
in Ruby and many other languages, and you can do it in
Perl by creating a class whose objects are anonymous
arrays, then using overload to provide the obvious
stringify operation.
However Ruby has a nice idea that I wouldn't mind seeing in
Perl. In Ruby any class can get a looping operation if
you define an "each" iterator, and include Enumerable.
Well they defined an "each" iterator for strings. There
is in Ruby no difference over a file which contains many
lines, and looping over a string that contains many lines
in it.
How is that for DWIM?
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