From: "matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)" Date: 2012-03-28T01:28:09+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:43768] [ruby-trunk - Feature #5361][Rejected] Lice? Issue #5361 has been updated by matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto). Status changed from Assigned to Rejected Don't deny your potential to learn. Matz. ---------------------------------------- Feature #5361: Lice? https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5361#change-25277 Author: trans (Thomas Sawyer) Status: Rejected Priority: Normal Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Category: core Target version: 2.0.0 Err... why is there a new String method for getting the lice of bytes? 'hello'.byteslice(2, 2) # => "ll" I don't like getting lice ;) (In other words what happened to good old readable underscores?) -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/