From: Belorion Date: 2005-01-08T06:42:55+09:00 Subject: Re: what's the Ruby way to do this? >> In which case I would support the notion that >> def snippet(thought) >> thought.split[0..9].join(" ") + "..." >> end >> is more the "Ruby Way" > I didn't realize that you are the arbiter of what is proper > use of Ruby. Glad to meet you, Belorian. If you take the sentence in full context, you will see that I am making no such claim. The full sentence read "In which case I would support the notion that [...] is more the 'Ruby Way'" "support the notion" is hardly proclaming myself the arbiter of what is proper.