From: Eric Wong <normalperson@...>
Date: 2017-06-03T00:25:32+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:81545] Re: [Ruby trunk Feature#13626] Add String#byteslice!

samuel@oriontransfer.org wrote:
> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13626

I used to want this, too; but then I realized IO#read and
similar methods will always return a binary string when given a
length limit.

So String#slice! should be enough.

(And IO#read and friends without a length limit is suicidal, anyways :)

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