From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2004-11-08T13:41:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.2 preview3

Hi,

In message "Re: Ruby 1.8.2 preview3"
    on Mon, 8 Nov 2004 13:28:46 +0900, Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com> writes:

|Assigning nil to an array slice in Array#[]= no longer deletes the
|elements from the array.  Is this change intended?

No.

|I actually think this new behavior makes more sense.  Using
|Array#delete_at or Array#slice! make for clearer code.

This new behavior is for 1.9.  The change has been slipped in 1.8.2
accidentally.

							matz.