From: Alexander Kellett <ruby-lists@...>
Date: 2005-02-21T01:54:08+09:00
Subject: Re: destructive! operations

On Feb 20, 2005, at 5:23 PM, Caio Tiago Oliveira wrote:
> Bad example:
>
> while ( line = gets.chomp )
>   # work with line
> end

unless ruby cow's the string and
the copy just has a truncating length,
then this requires copying of the line.

Alex