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So, it sounds like the 1.9 series will remove Enumerable from String’s ancestry, in favor of String#lines. All string iteration casts to an Array. Maybe I’m getting my hopes up, but all these string changes seem like portents of Unicode Times.

 >> str = "pony\nwagon\nstungun\n" 
 => "pony\nwagon\nstungun\n" 
 >> str.max
 NoMethodError: undefined method `max' for "pony\nwagon\nstungun\n":String
 from (irb):2:in `Kernel#binding'
 >> str.lines.max
 => "wagon\n" 

Makes sense. Anyone else mourning the impotent string splat?

 >> utilities = *str
 => ["pony\nwagon\nstungun\n"]

Like a little rotary saw whose tooth got stuck. (from matz and patch.)