jashkenas/underscore

Allow string-to-array conversion in _.toArray()

pcorcoran opened this issue · 3 comments

pcorcoran commented

_.toArray('abc') today throws a TypeError. It would great if it instead returned ['a','b','c']. A simple str.split('') would do.

(I understand the line in the sand regarding string functions. But treating strings as collections is a nice-n-functional thing to allow.)

Thanks!

jashkenas commented

Nope, sorry. It sounds like you've already read all the tickets discussing supporting strings as arrays of characters, so no need to rehash here.

TypeError is definitely what you want in this case.

benekastah commented

@jashkenas Could you please link to any issues that cover why underscore doesn't support strings as arrays of characters? Thanks.

jashkenas commented

I don't know them off the top of my head, but Github Issues search should be able to help you.

Underscore doesn't support strings as arrays of characters because strings aren't arrays of characters in JavaScript.