From: Charles Mills <cmills@...>
Date: 2005-10-16T13:34:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Wilderness: Need Code to invoke ELTS_SHARED response

On Oct 14, 2005, at 12:43 PM, Charles E. Thornton wrote:

> Mauricio Fern�ndez wrote:
>
>
>> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 05:04:59PM +0900, Charles E. Thornton wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Testing the My Object Dump and I am trying to cause creation
>>> of a shared string object (ELTS_SHARED...)
>>>
>>> I tried:
>>> #!/usr/bin/ruby
>>> #
>>> # Trace Execution
>>> #
>>> #set_trace_func proc { |event, file, line, id, binding, classname|
>>> #   printf "%8s %s:%-2d %10s %8s\n", event, file, line, id,  
>>> classname }
>>> #
>>> v1 = "hello long message"
>>> v2 = v1.sub(/([aeiou])/, '*')
>>> p v2
>>>
>>> But No Luck:
>>>
>>> Can someone provide a short fragment that induces this behavior  
>>> (Shared!).
>>>
>>>
>>
>> v1 = "foo".clear
>>
>>
>>
> Runinng 1.8.2 Produces
> ---------------------------------
>
> v1 = "foo".clear     #==>  undefined method `clear' for "foo" :String
>
> "clear" only works for HASH and ARRAY (oh yeah,  SET and QUEUE too)?
>
> -- 
> GodFather -- 667 Neighbor of the Beast
substring:
a = "ab"[1,1]

-Charlie