Merge pull request #2316 from alco/string-to_char_list

String to char list

Author: ericmj

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@
 
 * Backwards incompatible changes
   * [Exception] Exceptions now generate structs instead of records
+  * [String] `String.to_char_list/1` no longer returns a tuple and raises in case of failure (`String.to_char_list!/1` used to behave like that)
+  * [String] `String.to_char_list!/1` is removed
 
 
 # v0.13.2 (2014-05-11)

lib/elixir/lib/string.ex

@@ -1186,8 +1186,8 @@ defmodule String do
 
   ## Examples
 
-      iex> List.from_char_data("æß")
-      {:ok, 'æß'}
+      iex> String.to_char_list("æß")
+      'æß'
 
   Notice that this function expect a list of integer representing
   UTF-8 codepoints. If you have a raw binary, you must instead use