From: Christian Szegedy Date: 2001-05-16T02:00:34+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:15188] Re: operator idea Michael Neumann wrote: > Use str << "hello\n" in this case instead, which do not copy the object. Of course, I know. Exactly that was my point. Look at the benchmark, how dramatic is the difference between the two variants! You can win the same for (or loose if it won't be changed...) operators. I the numbers are quite impressive. Best Regards, Christian