From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-02-28T13:56:49+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11741] Re: String#delete! question

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:11699] String#delete! question"
    on 01/02/28, David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:

|OK, in spite of having fallen into the equivalent of the class Unix
|'test' trap (after 11 years of using/administering *nix), I am still
|willing to go out on a limb and say that I find the following behavior
|surprising in a number of ways:

It's because delete! accessing uninitialized table of deleting
characters.  String#delete! should take at least 1 argument.
I should have checked.

							matz.