From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2004-10-25T01:29:12+09:00
Subject: Re: [rcr] String#first / String#last

Gavin Kistner wrote:
> On Oct 24, 2004, at 7:54 AM, Shashank Date wrote:
> 
>> I will vote for it. May I propose aliasing left and right to first and 
>> last?
> 
> 
> Given the presence of right-to-left languages in the world, and possible 
> some-day support for them, I think first/last is a better choice.

Hmmm... never thought of that. Nice catch, Gavin.
So, how about:

   str.left(6)

should show the left 6 chars/codes of the string, regardless.

Another RCR then ?

-- shanko